How To Use Overture In A Sentence

The greatest bar to women's participation was the common-law principle of coverture, although it should be noted that the status and authority of married women in plebeian families likely permitted them a good deal of behind-the-scenes involvement in any legal matters confronting their families. Gutenber-e Help Page
She will probably behave brilliantly if you make the generous overture of inviting her in the first place. Times, Sunday Times
Opera is music, drama, literature, dance, theater and art as a comprehensive integration of art, usually by the Aria, Recitative, ensemble, chorus, Overture, Intermezzo , dances and other components.
All attempts by the Socialists to woo him back were spurned. Similar overtures from the right have likewise been rejected.
And it is the treachery of his appetite which inveigles him into the mischief, which cheats, and abuses, and by deceitful overtures trapans him into a perpetual calamity. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.

Our natural instinct is to analyze that as a homologous variation — Joplin must have got it from somewhere, perhaps the cavatina-cabaletta sequence of Italian opera, or perhaps Rossini overtures, or perhaps similarly obsessive passages in Chopin or Schumann. Categorical denials
At a running time of around four minutes, the overture is segmented into four themes.
They give a fine account of the Overture in C minor which has some delightful work for bassoon.
The most cherishable of Jay's recordings are two-disc sets which permit inclusion of virtually every bit of the show's score, as well as snippets of dialogue, overtures, entr'actes, incidental music, and underscoring.
Villa Kennan, with a pang of disappointment at such rebuff, forwent her overtures for the moment, and listened to what tale Jacob Henderson could tell of his dog. CHAPTER XXXIV
It blasts away for openers - not for the first time - with the overture from Rossini's otherwise neglected opera The Thieving Magpie.
The sixteenth variation - a famous tour-de-force - is a ‘French overture’ - that is, a grand introduction of slow dotted rhythms, followed by a fugal allegro.
Diplomatic overtures are also being made to France, Canada and Japan as well as to ASEAN countries.
Re peace overtures, Krushchev and Eisenhower were about to have a big summit that might have staved off the hideously expensive Cold War. Matthew Yglesias » Cold War Hawks and the Soviet Economy
All attempts by the Socialists to woo him back were spurned. Similar overtures from the right have likewise been rejected.
The overture is similar to its more illustrious counterpart from Tchiakovsky and it also has bells in its final moments.
The trio's third movement is a scherzo, full of fleeting and magical tunes very reminiscent of the Midsummer's Night Dream overture, a piece that Mendelssohn wrote when he was just 17.
The opera was preceded by a short overture.
The "overture" - the missionary's initial bonding with Muslims via discussion of the Koran - is precision-engineered to undermine their allegiance to Islam. GetReligion
Some of the most popular classical pieces comprise the final week's performances with Beethoven's overtures and Rachmaninov's piano concertos always attracting a wide audience.
They attacked suddenly and skilfully using natural covertures, destroy our positions one after another by the direct fire.
The trio's third movement is a scherzo, full of fleeting and magical tunes very reminiscent of the Midsummer's Night Dream overture, a piece that Mendelssohn wrote when he was just 17.
Columbia is also given high marks for acceding to Lean's original wishes that the overture, entr'acte, and exit music be presented with nothing but a blank screen.
You can express your feelings, disclose plans, make overtures or offer opportunities.
The worthless overture of the 'Prophete,' disfiguring this fine ensemble, had been hissed by some students of the Conservatoire, and, accustomed as I was to the blindness of the general public, knowing its implacable prejudices, I trembled for the fate of the magnificent septuor about to follow. The Great Italian and French Composers
Feminist reformers also challenged coverture by invoking equality.
The programme opened with the overture to Wagner's Flying Dutchman.
Even before the overture starts, there is a silent ballet, characterised by odd tics and jerks: the eight dancers appear to be convulsed by supernatural forces greater than themselves.
The way he said her name sent shivers up her spine, reminding her of Italian lessons and the romantic sound of the overture to La Bohème she used to play over and over after Giovanni left and went back to Italy. That’s Amore
Maggie was never one to reject a friendly overture.
Instead, bide your time and leave it to others to make the overture. Times, Sunday Times
The local tributary rulers were deposed because they refused to pay their dues, and the ruler of Gilan was making overtures to the Ottomans.
Sometimes it was a bit like watching a small man trying to wrestle a grand piano up a spiral staircase while playing the 1812 Overture. Times, Sunday Times
First, a musical overture with a philharmonic orchestra numbering around 60 musicians, and then 36 dancers, les Rexgirls, came on stage.
Teresa, however, evidently, declined such overtures.
These include a lickety-split Don Giovanni (live from Aix), a disc of Beethoven overtures, and Brahms's Third and Fourth Symphonies.
The overture and eight vocal numbers were new in this semi-pasticcio, a compilation piece. Times, Sunday Times
Not surprisingly, China's test of an antisatellite weapon in January 2007 – followed by the US Navy's downing of a crippled US spy satellite in February – chilled cooperative overtures.
The concert opens with Beethoven's Egmont Overture.
Marked Allegro non troppo, the Concert Overture (for which Raff made a piano, 4 hands arrangement) lasts about 10 minutes and is a very superior and craftsmanlike piece of work - hardly typical of the run of the mill celebratory pieces churned out by dozens of kapellmeisters at the time.
A petition of Hezekiah May, respecting a claim to land belonging to the es - tate of the late Elias Boudinot, was overtured, and being read, was referred to the trustees of the General Assembly, and the trustees were directed to deter - mine the case according to the principles of justice and equity. Minutes of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America
At first the Westbury resisted his overtures. Times, Sunday Times
A petition from the Synod of South Carolina and Georgia, requesting that the Presbytery of Alabama should be put under their care, instead of being attached to the Synod of Tennessee, was overtured, and being read, was com - mitted to Drs. Richards and Cathcart, and Messrs. Reuben Smith, Keep and Hodge. Minutes of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America
William Tell overture is not "from the soundtrack for A Clockwork Orange", it is a piece of classical music composed by Rossini. Matt’s Top 10 Trailers of 2009 – Collider.com
From rival rallies and refusing to relinquish the title president or his seat in Parliament, to snubbing Mogoba's overtures and then forming the Positive Action Council, Makwetu became a destructive force. ANC Daily News Briefing
Part I began with a swinging overture and maintained sprightly tempi and bright colors throughout, befitting the optimism of its subject: the annunciation of the birth of Christ. Tracing the Gospel With Renewed Vigor and Drama
The overture to Verdi's La forza del destino opera was delicately performed, oboes et al, and featured another young professional, soprano Alevtina Yarovaya, who just started at the Bolshoi and delivered arias from Puccini's La bohème and Gianni Schicchi. Evelyn Leopold: VE Day at the UN: Tchaikovsky and a Bit of Politics
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You aren't worth it, and the friendly overtures of others come as a justified reproach.
Weill's brief overture is wonderfully astringent and dissonant, the precise opposite of the florid, creamy style of the composer often regarded as his chief competitor, George Gershwin.
Largely unnoted amid the sound and fury are several peace overtures in the White Paper.
Make the overture a bit more significant than your casual invitations but not too heavy. Times, Sunday Times
She had not heard a word of Colonel Grand's minacious overture. The Rose in the Ring
When your overtures are misconstrued, the prudent course is sometimes to apologise and withdraw.
Yet Havana's overtures for friendlier relations have been repeatedly rebuffed by successive administrations in Washington.
The sensitive Druid launched deep into thought, shrewdly observing the the hazel-eyed man making overtures to the daughter of Cobham.
Telekom had frozen his wages since the ban but were making overtures to him about renewing his contract when the current one finished at the end of this year.
The 2.35:1 anamorphic transfer is very fine indeed and comes complete with overture, intermission, entr'acte, and exit music.
Do the same and, just like her, you may just be courting hurt and resentment when your overtures are rejected. Times, Sunday Times
So long has he is steeped in his loneliness, he's immune to friendly overtures.
-- There were several well-jointured widows in the county where he resided, and also young ladies of family and fortune, but he never made the least overtures to any of them, and behaved with that indifference to the sex, that it was the opinion of all who conversed with him, that he never designed to marry again, when at the same time, he thought of nothing more than to find a partner in that state, such as promised to prove what he desired. Life's Progress Through The Passions Or, The Adventures of Natura
'wonderfull and marvelous greate quantitie of corne and graine'; and destroying the 'covertures of thatched housery, bernes, rekes, stakkes, and other such like'; so that all persons were to do their best to kill them, 'on pain of a grevous amerciament'. A Short History of English Agriculture
The overture to Verdi's La forza del destino opera was delicately performed, oboes et al, and featured another young professional, soprano Alevtina Yarovaya, who just started at the Bolshoi and delivered arias from Puccini's La Bohème and Gianni Schicchi. Evelyn Leopold: VE Day at the UN: Tchaikovsky and a Bit of Politics (update)
Colours echo with overtures of country lane rambles, windswept beaches and wild flower-filled meadows.
precatory overtures
Being perplexed by the great losses he was continually sustaining through the Portuguese superiority at sea, the sovereign of Calicut made overtures towards an accommodation; and in a treaty of peace gave permission to the governor-general to build a fort in the island of _Chale_, in a river that falls into the sea about three leagues from Calicut, which is navigable by boats all the way to the foot of the _Gaut_ mountains. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
She will probably behave brilliantly if you make the generous overture of inviting her in the first place. Times, Sunday Times
In the 1812 Overture, Karajan has a famous Russian choir intone the Russian Orthodox hymn normally given to violas and cellos.
The local tributary rulers were deposed because they refused to pay their dues, and the ruler of Gilan was making overtures to the Ottomans.
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The conductor and the instrumentalists establish a French style in the overture.
But a glimpse of the relationship can be found in the notes of a visitor, August Gottlieb Meissner, who was present when Mozart's friends importuned him to finish the overture to Don Giovanni.
If it had been animated, the overture would have had huge, black thunderheads piling in to block the sky - indeed, to block out any prospect of hope.
Our natural instinct is to analyze that as a homologous variation — Joplin must have got it from somewhere, perhaps the cavatina-cabaletta sequence of Italian opera, or perhaps Rossini overtures, or perhaps similarly obsessive passages in Chopin or Schumann. Categorical denials
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Instead, bide your time and leave it to others to make the overture. Times, Sunday Times
He appeared to them to be a queer kind of pedant; they did not care for him, and made no overtures to him, and he avoided them. A House of Gentlefolk
Yeltsin had made repeated overtures to the Chechens to preserve Russia's territorial integrity.
The playing of the woodwind section at the beginning of the overture was well balanced and finely tuned, revealing the experience and ability of the players.
As I enjoyed the quasi-fictional depiction of President Nixon's trip to China at the Metropolitan Opera, my mind wandered as to whether his excursion to foreign territory and his interest in accelerating America's ties with Asia also catalyzed his passivity towards the tumultuous transformations in his own country; just as President Clinton's premature overtures to China for expansive trade catalyzed income inequality at home in hopes of futural prosperity fueled by the prospects of global demand for American products from a growing and wealthier global consumer. Milton Curry: Nixon in China and the American City: Radical Urban Revitalization Needed
These include lieder, thirty string quartets and six symphonies, plus numerous overtures and choral works.
If Broadway show tunes are your thing, the Jefferson Symphony Orchestra & the Arvada Chorale give us show-stoppers from Andrew Lloyd Webber and Leonard Bernstein after a heart-stopping performance of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. Tracy Shaffer: Arvada Alive With Music
In public, Egypt has characterized these overtures with Iran as moves toward normalization, and not toward embracement. Egypt and Iran Thaw Once Frosty Relations
Under conductor Will Crutchfield, the orchestra and chorus brought richness and bel canto lyricism to the score, from the galloping motifs of the overture to the antiphonal horn playing that evoked the echoes of the Swiss mountains, the lively, fugal mustering of the cantons in Act II, and the victorious tremolos of the finale. Pared 'Flute' Is a Muted Production
Yet, we do hear of British aristocrats making overtures to Rome, and even dedicating offerings on the Capitol of the world's pre-eminent city.
Musically, I have to say that the performance was quite thrilling, right from the opening bars of the overture.
A familiar Rossini overture (The Silken Ladder) presented that composer's usual challenges, which were tackled with precision.
Neighbours will appreciate a further benefit - it does not rely on the 1812 overture or other audible deterrents.
By the 18th century, composers were calling the overture to an opera, or an oratorio, the "sinfonia". How the great symphonies became our soundtrack to a changing world
The opera was preceded by a short overture.
At first the Westbury resisted his overtures. Times, Sunday Times
The overture smote like a dirge on her ear, and when the callboy came to announce that the moment of her entrance was at hand, it reminded her of nothing so much as the feeling of mourners when the sable mute appears at the door, as a signal to form the procession to the tomb. Mary Anderson
Anna struck a chord, let her fingers ring out the overture to `Tristan and Isolde ", lost herself in its waves of longing. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Its overture is taken up with the analogy between the king of the nation and the father of the nuclear family that is beginning to supersede the extended family of earlier centuries.
This is the second disc in another excellent series devoted to the rich seam of British Light Overtures, an area in which the composers from this sceptred isle were extremely prolific.
Despite the enthusiastic overtures which the dawn of a new season brings, Clark admits he will quickly lose his appetite if matches descend into torpidity.
Though Ernst says he repeatedly offered to correct the text free of charge, his overtures were rejected.
He spent more time with the orchestra, with the overture in the beginning of the show than the whole block of the show.
Do the same and, just like her, you may just be courting hurt and resentment when your overtures are rejected. Times, Sunday Times
The message was the main talking point across Iraqi media yesterday, where he was warmly received by civilians and officials who have largely embraced his overtures to the Islamic world.
Tchaikovsky composed his most famous overture to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Russia's victory over Napoleon's French army in 1812.
Few begin with their leading lady and two dancers cowled in black like executioners while an overture plays out. Janelle Monáe
He won't speak to the press unless an overture of fanned notes cues him.
The stormy overture tells of great things to come, which are only partially realised by the cast. Times, Sunday Times
Neither side in the conflict seems willing to make peace overtures.
Her young daughter is soon making overtures to the man, who wants to rob the women blind.
The most cherishable of Jay's recordings are two-disc sets which permit inclusion of virtually every bit of the show's score, as well as snippets of dialogue, overtures, entr'actes, incidental music, and underscoring.
This overture is still old politics, which some will embrace whole heartedly. McCain team reaches out to disappointed Clinton backers
As in all those movies, the demonstration is an overture to how that newly introduced power will explode narrative, characters, bodies.
Part I began with a swinging overture and maintained sprightly tempi and bright colors throughout, befitting the optimism of its subject: the annunciation of the birth of Christ. Tracing the Gospel With Renewed Vigor and Drama
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The overtures did not divert tens of thousands from marching against the government.
Under coverture a married woman could not sue or be sued unless her husband was party to the suit.
The Ob administration has just 'overtured' China to "invest" in our smaller banks. .perhaps at 51%? Latest Articles
Its fugal partner is heroic music in the form of a French Overture; Parmentier plays it quite slowly which allows all the delicious detail to come forth.
During this overture the patrico and the upright man had ascended the rostrum, each taking his place; the former on the right hand of Turpin, the latter upon his left. Rookwood
There is special concern about the vast windowed expanses of the new Overture Center.
The stormy overture tells of great things to come, which are only partially realised by the cast. Times, Sunday Times
Maggie was never one to reject a friendly overture.
The Isaac Newton's steam-whistle had sent up the curtain; the overture had followed with strains Der-Frei-schutzy in the Adirondacks, pastoral in the valleys of Vermont and New Hampshire, funebral and andante in the fogs of Mollychunkamug; now it was to end in an allegretto gallopade, and the drama would open. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862
Le Gros purchased the two overtures from me and the sinfonie concertante, which he thinks exclusively his own; but this is not the case, for I have it still fresh in my head, and mean to write it out again as soon as I am at home. The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
In the hymnal we have Wagner but we also have Brahms (the academic festival overture’s hymn), and one doesn’t see those chaps a whole lot in hymnals — give me more of the latter and dispense with the great bombaster. Deliberations on O Holy Night « Unknowing
The committee referred to the minutes of the assembly for 1795, for the following record, viz.: "the following request was overtured, that the Synods of Virginia and the Carolinas have liberty to direct their Presbyteries to ordain such candidates as they may judge necessary to appoint, on missions to preach the gospel; whereupon, resolved, that the above request be granted, the Synods being careful to restrict the permission to the ordination of such candidates only as are engaged to be sent on missions. Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers
The book was for many days snubbed, buffeted, browbeaten; and the care fully-woven tapestry was torn into shreds and trampled upon; and it seemed that the patiently sculptured shrine was overtured and despised and desecrated. St. Elmo
But I live in a country ridden with religious overtures in every facet of life, of silly, stupid superstitions, traditions and beliefs that are senseless and illogical.
Like Wagner's overture, this movement is a Romantic ode to Classical counterpoint, and one at times seems to hear actual Wagner themes peeking out from behind the curtain.
From the end of the 370s Persia also faced a series of satrap revolts; these revolts particularly involved the western provinces of the empire, and rebel satraps made various overtures to Greek cities.
He made friendly overtures to his new neighbours.
The Presbytery of Orange overtured Synod for an order to ordain Mr. Joseph Caldwell, of the University; and the Synod, in consideration of the prospect of increased usefulness, authorized the ordination. Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers
Sometimes it was a bit like watching a small man trying to wrestle a grand piano up a spiral staircase while playing the 1812 Overture. Times, Sunday Times
They played the overture at a fairly slow tempo.
Under James Conlon's sensitive and idiomatic leadership, and after some rough moments in the overture on opening night, the orchestra sparkled as it kept the action moving, sprinkling Rossinian pixy dust over the assembled and deftly changing gears from the frivolity later on for a few tender moments. Rodney Punt: A Turk in Italy Comes to Town in an Airstream Trailer
The following question was overtured, viz.: "Is it expedient to admit baptized slaves as witnesses in ecclesiastical judicatories where others cannot be had? Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers
She began Tuesday's show with Leonard Bernstein's overture to "Candide," followed by Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor (K. 466), and Smetana's "The Moldau" (from "M vlast"). A Not-So-Odd Musical Couple
The Saint-Saëns overture is an appealing rarity, recorded at one of Munch's first sessions in Boston.
Those complex overtures done with, I followed up all gung-ho with an enquiry as to when the piece was required.
Secondly, it allows us to view a world beyond coverture and crime which has consumed so much scholarly energy in recent years.
Director Tom Gellert as well as a HCB for a final concert: Tchaikovskys 1812 Overture accompanied by LIVE cannon as well as guest cannoneer, Jim McAward. Li concerts summer 2009
This pair of movements was sometimes followed by a moderately slow dance movement (as in the minuet in Handel's overture to Samson), or the entire first section might be repeated.
It now makes its first overtures towards potential recruits when they are taking GCSEs. Times, Sunday Times
The Overture is based on a poem describing the impressions of a Creole gaucho, a cowboy of sorts, who came to Buenos Aires and saw a production of Gounod's Faust.
I first encountered Rossini, for instance, in Chuck Jones's "Rabbit of Seville," which made brilliantly apposite use of the "Barber of Seville" overture as background music for one of the looniest of all Looney Tunes cartoons. Why 'Fantasia' Mattered—Just Ask Gunther Schuller
The sinfonia, a type of overture, does not necessarily represent the subject of the oratorio.
Organ fugues, orchestral overtures and jazz favourites are united with pop hits, movie themes and folk tunes.
Similarly, the overtures go well, yet the conductor misses something of the earthy humor of the Academic Festival.
'Overtures from Richmond,' set to the quaint air of '_Lilliburlero, bullen a la_,' which is said to have 'sung a deluded prince out of three kingdoms.' The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
Darnell emphasized that no formal overtures have been made, but the show is likely to target faded stars along the lines of such 1980s teen phenoms as Tiffany and Debbie Gibson.
As a result, the government's purely economic reforms lacked boldness after this dramatic overture.
Berlioz even went so far as to describe the overture as _une niaiserie incroyable_, and the vocal part sometimes shows the influence of the empty formulas from which Gluck was trying to escape. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.
Much like musical doorbell chimes: you can only listen to a badly midi-ized version of the William Tell overture once before you rip out the batteries and revert to knocking.
As his "Thalia" was an "overture to an imaginary comedy," so this, to an imaginary tragedy. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
This trite communication put an end to Emma's overtures and she began to fade from their lives.
I routinely disregard business overtures and communications that have simple errors.
Unlike Overture, though, Google does not place these results in their hypertext links on the left.
Meanwhile, another ‘sport’ is making overtures to join the Olympics.
ZAHN: Is that something the U.S. would welcome, this overture from the Germans? CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2002
The nawab was not the only courtier to make overtures. JOSIAH THE GREAT: The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King
Their government is making overtures for peace.
You must have indeed shed a silent tear and perhaps given a bit of help to those who crave for your covertures.
He had lately begun to make clumsy yet endearing overtures of friendship.
drinks were the overture to dinner
The message was the main talking point across Iraqi media yesterday, where he was warmly received by civilians and officials who have largely embraced his overtures to the Islamic world.
An overture to a homeless guy ended when the homeless guy - in a reversal of the usual voter-politician interaction - panhandled the candidate.
At curtain-up we are presented with a draped terrain, and a formally dressed maestro conducting a Wagner overture. Jasmin Vardimon Company: 7734 – review
Probably, they would have resisted the overtures for peace and stuck to the demand for unconditional surrender. Times, Sunday Times
The overture is a magnificent summing-up of the trials and tribulations, the twists and turns in the plot, and a splendid taster for the delights to come.
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They began making overtures to the Irish government.
But if two or three overtures are rejected, move on.
They used the slightly surreal "woop woop" of the 'copter's blades in an overture that combined sound effects, the Doors song "The End" and a narration by Capt. Ann Hornaday discusses sound innovations in 1970s films
The program included a lacklustre and flaccid account of Rossini's Overture to "La gazza ladra".
Columbia is also given high marks for acceding to Lean's original wishes that the overture, entr'acte, and exit music be presented with nothing but a blank screen.
While Washington so far had been unreceptive to his overtures, he was aware that a prompt commitment of Australian forces would improve the chances of such a pact.
The body ranges between the sexes, the pose extremely lascivious while the lustfully mounting tones of the overture are played slowly, to be savoured.
Neither side in the conflict seems willing to make peace overtures.
Before the overture has run its course our eyes are dazzled by computer graphics projected on to the curtain. The Times Literary Supplement
This is most evident in Sunset Song, the swelling overture to the Quair, the words rolling out like a pastoral symphony.
It is overtured to the Presbyteries whether or not it shall be left to the Sessions to invite Presbyterians to commune with them. Diary of Samuel A. Agnew : September 27, 1863-June 30, 1864,
With a lucid discussion of the constraints of coverture, Cott undercuts such symbolism and outlines the ironies which underlay.
All attempts by the Socialists to woo him back were spurned. Similar overtures from the right have likewise been rejected.
She defended President Obama's overtures towards Presidents Chavez in Venezuela, saying that efforts to isolate anti-American leaders had only made them more receptive to other powers.
Churches of America, 'it overtured' the National bodies of the The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
The 2.35:1 anamorphic transfer is very fine indeed and comes complete with overture, intermission, entr'acte, and exit music.
His recordings of concert works like Brahms's Sixth Hungarian Dance and Mendelssohn's "Ruy Blas" overture document the expressive late-19th-century performance style, with its flexible tempos (rubato) and emotional string portamento (sliding between important notes). Wax in My Ears: An Online Journey
One could find parts of a symphony and an overture of German or Austrian origin along with Italian opera selections, quadrilles, and virtuoso items.
The first half was Rossini overtures featuring sexy, seductive solos by oboist Ariana Ghez and Rossini Arias featuring sexy seductive superstar tenor Juan Diego Florez who's never met a high 'C' he didn't like. Laurence Vittes: Gustavo the Dude Is Back
From the 1400s some Iraqi Nestorians accepted overtures from Rome and acknowledged the pope, becoming Catholics.
With few exceptions, coverture is now dead and gone.
But flashpoints between judiciary and executive are nothing new, the Human Rights Act renders judges more powerful, and Blunkett's overtures are chiefly perceived as sabre-rattling.
After all, it is impossible to understand the doctrine of coverture.
The adaptation of music for a medium different from that for which it was originally composed, for example the recasting of a song as a piano piece, or of an orchestral overture as an organ piece.
Probably, they would have resisted the overtures for peace and stuck to the demand for unconditional surrender. Times, Sunday Times
The symphonies are more like a ‘fantasy or overture’ and the two here are both programmatic.
Subtitled ‘Overture on Liturgical Themes,’ it is based on the Obikhod, a collection of Russian Orthodox canticles, biblical texts, and hymns.
My only qualm on this album is the rather boxy sound of this overture, but this is a minor misgiving when compared to the joys on offer.
Kleiber disliked making records and grumbled when the Vienna Philharmonic changed concertmasters from one session to the next, but the spring in his overture was inspirational.
Seligman likes charm a lot, I'm glad to say, and he knows well enough that this cunning overture is politely blind to the fact that neither of his ladies asked to have this contest arranged. Odd Couple
The overture of Inca culture, history and topography is essential to maximise your sense of wonder at the finale. Times, Sunday Times
Whether Syria's peace overture is rhetorical or real, there is no better time to put Damascus to the test. Alon Ben-Meir: Syria Reasserts Its Centrality to Peace
In the 15th symphony he quotes a passage from Rossini's "William Tell" overture.

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