The chill is only accentuated by Cliff Martinez's ethereally melancholy score of synthesized pulses filtered through strings.

It's a gently melancholy score, and Ms. Erickson has evoked a twilight realm in her choreographic response to it.

The most compelling premiere was "The Object Lesson," choreographed by Amy Sue Rosen to a mysterious and melancholy score by Mieczyslaw Litwinski.

Except for Antonio Meliveo's discreetly melancholy score, the movie is almost as plain as its central character.

With a folky, melancholy score underlining its themes of alienation and post-collegiate angst, the coming-of-age film has already earned comparisons to "The Graduate" - a compliment Mr. Braff said is rather undeserved.

Drawing near, to a melancholy score by Erik Friedlander, they appeared to marvel at their proximity.

Surrounding it were two low riverbanks, one downstage, the other upstage, where the members of the Kronos Quartet assembled to play an unhurried, melancholy and poignant score by Somei Satoh.

Its movement titles - Sinfonia, Passacaglia, Fugue - suggest Neo-Classicism, but Schuman's ruminative, often melancholy score confounds that expectation.

Victoria Marks's "Dancing to Music," presented in November at Performance Space 122, did indeed have music - a melancholy score by Wim Mertens.

He was at his most poignant in "Passion Distanced," a work of 1987 to a melancholy recorded score by Arvo Part.