Yet the music seemed padded in places and lacked a strong sense of compositional voice.

What constitutes a compositional voice is hard to define.

Moments like these hint at a potentially striking compositional voice.

A composer can have a striking compositional voice and still write a piece that is not entirely successful.

Holst's search for his compositional voice led him to explore beyond English music traditions.

It will be interesting to see what he comes up with when he finds his own compositional voice.

The compositional voice is not vivid, but the music has a spunky vitality.

Few of the composers have truly distinctive, confident compositional voices.

"He's got a real compositional voice, full of profound feeling and surprising colors."

Mr. Pavone said he found his compositional voice around 1978.