Both pieces, indeed, had a slender Classical-era texture - a quality appropriate to each of these two very different musical messages.

A musical message for my friends in Japan who are dealing with this terrible natural disaster.

But the musical message will also be heard by half a million kids who are the unlucky ones.

Technical flaws can easily be dismissed if they're offset by the communication of a compelling musical message.

By then you may find this musical message redundant, since the visual and narrative joys of the movie itself are so ample.

It says that musical messages can be important without being pretty.

The beginning is gray and hardbitten, with a tortuous piano part whose main musical message often seems difficulty itself.

Her musical message as a composer often has ecological undertones.

"At the end of each evening there can be a musical message that makes everyone feel together," the producer said.

The implications of the musical message were too disturbing to permit me to sleep right away, in any case.