And if some of today's songs are preachy and overblown, others are brilliant examples of terse musical storytelling.
Further entertainment will include musical storytelling, a shadow puppet play and a Children's Garden haunted house.
Brahms was not very interested in musical storytelling and was more concerned with conveying and eliciting emotional impressions.
Riff worship meets gypsy jangle and Arabesque male/female vocal harmonies, further enhancing the band's trademark, otherworldly, musical storytelling.
West Orange "The Funkey Monkeys," musical storytelling.
The kinetic pulse of Grainger's musical storytelling impels the listener to expect some resolution, some point of arrival, which never quite arrives.
McKean developed a flair for melody and musical storytelling with vivid evocative imagery.
The piece was Ashley's first extended attempt to find a new form of musical storytelling using the English language.
But few possess his gift of musical storytelling.
It's obviously a winking, informal style of musical storytelling.