How To Use Poser In A Sentence

Band leader, Ray Blue, is also a composer, arranger and performer on tenor, alto and soprano saxophones.
The word luminosity describes the nature of celestial light, and the music of composer James Whitbourn is a celebration of that light: peaceful, radiant and clear. James Whitbourn's Celestial Sounds
He went on to scarify the same companies for being only interested in putting on the tried and the tested to the exclusion of modern works by Irish writers and composers.
It will include harpists, a soprano soloist accompanied by the flute and spinet and music by Mozart as well as other lesser-known composers.
‘The composer's operetta appeals to a less discriminating taste for melody, harmony and rhythm,’ he said.

He was always keen to promote works by contemporary composers and also favoured neglected works. Times, Sunday Times
To answer the 300-odd posers on the questionnaire without then being persuaded to sign up for the religion was an essential rite-of-passage for any spotty adolescent struggling to find their own voice.
Thereby, you will be able to navigate your way ahead, carefully picking your route around bloated wobbly people, inconsiderate ‘wallowers’ and arsey posers as they try to impress the girls.
The so-called audience learns about the proposer herself, measures her credibility, considers her ideas, and deepens her understanding of the current exigency as the rhetor sees it.
A disposer, like most appliances, once used, suffers from disuse. Houston Chronicle
When you think of a classical music composer, blokes with gold teeth and a shaved head probably don't spring to mind! The Sun
This seems to have resulted in a straight two to one win for the opposers - 15,000 comments agin, 7,500 for.
Though self-effacing "It isn't my personality to be particularly proud of what I do" the composer seems to recognize his legacy as arguably the only living film composer with both classical credentials and name recognition among everyday moviegoers. The Last Movie Maestro
Contemporary British composer Nicolas Maw, no slouch at doing gnarly himself, was represented by "Music of Memory," a suite of mostly nontonal meditations built around a lyrical theme from a Mendelssohn string quartet that made several calming appearances during the piece. News | SH | http://www.heraldtribune.com
Says the Richmond composer, I thought it would be great to write a sequel showing how [Porgy] goes up north, and on the way he runs into jazz, rag, barrelhouse, jug band, gospel, all the early black folk music styles. Archive 2006-11-01
I attended with some positive anticipation, because the Poulenc Concerto, along with the Camille Saint-Sa'ns Symphony No. 3 avec orgue (with organ), have always seemed highly imaginative examples of gifted composers managing to craft beautiful and meaningful, even reflective statements for the mighty and potentially overpowering instrument. Undefined
To be a muddle-headed aesthete, even to be interested in the aesthetic qualities of literature at all, has long been anathema to a certain kind of critic, grounds for accusing writers of being morally deficient, but why, for example, would it probably not occur to these critics to declare, say, composers too interested in art, too attentive to the needs of form over those of morality? Narrative Strategies
I would be curious to know whether composers who work with just intonation came to it through diatonicism and then realized how cool it would be to adapt it to chromaticism, or whether they were chromatic from the start and just continually dissatisfied with the equal-tempered results. Arguments, agreements, advice, answers, articulate announcements
First the candy: Known as Mozart Kugeln, packed in a delightful red tin with tiny portraitures of the composer, these are deluxe confections exquisitely filled with marzipan, made from "fresh green pistachios, almonds and rich hazelnut-nougat, enrobed with delicious milk and bitter chocolates. Rozanne Gold: Tastes of the Week
I've always found this kind of argument a little specious, since most people don't know and could care less about when a composer wrote a work.
Kenny Wheeler, the expat Canadian trumpeter and jazz composer, was 82 last week – but this big band session featuring new themes and plenty of flugelhorn improvising, was recorded only a few months ago. Kenny Wheeler: The Long Waiting – review
Barshai transcribed the Eighth Quartet for chamber orchestra under the composer's supervision.
In this sense, can we say that the dismissal of Schoenberg et al had its roots in a sort of century-long "me, me, me, emotive"/composer-becoming-the-subject of historical inquiry -- where the "forward looking" or the "next new thing" was the prescient objective -- came to a violent collision with the unfamiliar, one which is unreconcilable with nostalgia? Every night, they say, he sings the herd to sleep
Inside a rehearsal space at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center this week, a group of musicians including former múm vocalist Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir, an Icelandic string trio Gyda Valtýsdóttir, Borgar Magnason and Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir and the Seattle-based Aono Jikken Ensemble were running through their cues and a new score by composer Matthew Patton. Worldwide Hospitalities
Yet you are never far from reminders of the sadness and regret that suffuses the mind of the composer.
I sat just behind the composer and felt in the presence of a creative genius, transported into other worlds.
There were no opposers and no counter proposals.
My vitriolic attack on posers shall now be reserved for a subset of the brown crowd ‘cuz I like making fun of my people.
Look at Mengelberg, look at Furtwängler, and look at the rest of the Mitteleuropa-trained composers in the past one hundred years. Mengelberg's Mahler
The composer himself remarked on its innovation: a ‘sonata written in a concertante manner, almost like a concerto.’
The proposer of the motion tonight is Jonathan Hesk.
That the portraits of Beethoven did not bear much likeness to the composer could be deemed a deliberate transgression.
This is an ambitious 18-track programme piece redolent of the history, mystery, and eloquent loneliness in the Border hills of the composer's childhood.
‘What is it?’ said I. ‘Why,’ said she, ‘since God is rightly believed to govern all things with the rudder of goodness, and since all things do likewise, as I have taught, haste towards good by the very aim of nature, can it be doubted that His governance is willingly accepted, and that all submit themselves to the sway of the Disposer as conformed and attempered to His rule?’ Consolation of Philosophy
The screeches of some of the more outlandish among gloomy modern composers or the illiterate wailings of some vapid rock ‘musician’ are subjected to sham scholarship and pseudo philosophising.
This appeared in a collection of six alternatim settings all based on the chant Kyrie orbis factor, and all by composers connected in some way or other with S Barbara and Mantua. Archive 2009-06-01
Parson, laying his pipe on his hand, “fourteenthly, it is calumniously asserted by the opposers of divine truth that on this hypothesis God made men to damn them; but we say Margaret
The so-called rules of music theory constitute a retrospective set of principles that describe what various composers have done in the past.
In the US he not only played with numerous American bands but also honed his skills as a composer and arranger. Times, Sunday Times
In the first quarter of the 19th Century Antonio Diabelli, a Viennese pianist and music publisher, sent a simple waltz he had written to a number of major composers and invited them to write variations.
As a struggling young composer she applied to the Scottish Arts Council for a grant.
From Dvo ř á k ' s " New World " Symphony, with its construct of Indian and African-American folk idioms, to Messiaen ' s bird-song transcriptions of Bryce Canyon, composers have responded to it most often with collages, drawing on different musical and even extramusical references. Turning the City
An appeal has been launched to build a lasting memorial to the composer.
The composer adapts the antiphonal structure by alternating sections of linear two-voice writing with those of chordal textures, the latter serving as multiple refrains.
In any event, the composer was badly shaken during this era, which probably hastened his death in 1950.
This weekend, two orchestras will honor the men who made mambo: at Rose Hall, one outstanding Latin American bassist salutes another as Carlos Henriquez leads the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in the music of the Cuban composer and innovator Israel Cachao Lopez 1918-2008. The Jazz Scene: Rhythm Kings and the Chairman of the Board
If the content of the pieces is somewhat lacking, then the composer's ear for the perfect registration does mean that there are some delicious sounds to be savoured and Harold Britton makes the most of them.
August 12th, 2009 Music-composer Pritam is heard to be brain-storming over the music of Parmeet Sethi's untitled directorial venture under Yash Raj Productions. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
Like the Poco Allegretto of the composer's third symphony, the wistful melody of this movement gives the score poignancy that stamps it as one of the great creations of the romantic era.
The passacaglia, strictly speaking, pits variations over a ground bass, although most composers from Brahms on, shift the bass material around to all the voices, which Lees does as well.
The gyms out here tend to be full of image-conscious posers who care nothing about what's inside a person's head.
Certaines personnes, souvent d'ailleurs celles qui ont le pouvoir donné par une institution d'appartenance, s'assoient sur le droit d'auteur, n'hésitant pas à apposer leur nom sur un texte écrit par un autre. Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas
If the production is attached to a box-office name: major playwright or composer or director or actor, any or all of these folks might have what is called "contractual approval. The New York Public Library: Artists as Critics
There are four popular Chopin items, the first set of the Schubert Impromptus, and Ravel's La Valse as transcribed by the composer for piano solo.
Last week we delved into the world of classical music composers who had been inspired by the beautiful game.
However, it is important to note that this also finds parallels in the keyboard toccatas of a number of North German composers.
One of the world's first live concerts by self-taught composers has shed an uncomfortably bright light on the nature of human creativity. Times, Sunday Times
Unlike previous years, when songs of different composers were sung, this time the choir chose to render the songs of only one composer, those of Sir John Stainer's.
Sounds that can be used must be generated as found sound by the composer/performer.
Briars thrown in his Way, and with Intrepidity if need requires, even imbrue his Hands in his opposers Blood, and make a Dagger with Blindfolded Eyes, force John Adams diary 13, 1 March - 31 December 1766, March 1767
French directors of the time thought little of setting several composers to work on a score.
The course tutor and then assistant coach, Jim Harrick Jr, invited answers from students to a series of mind-blowing posers, including these.
They also suggest enough power to take on the more popular operatic composers.
Authors include composers, performers and professors of technology, musicology, anthropology and science.
In the second half of the first bar, the _acciaccatura_ was never intended by the composer to be actually sung as printed. Style in Singing
Variants occur in B-Bc 27087 (‘Clemente nono Papa’) and LVu mus.4 (‘Clemens haud papa’) which support the theory that the suffix was created in jest rather than for practical reasons: Pope Clemens VII had died in 1534 (before the composer appeared in print), and the possibility of confusion with the poet Jacobus Papa in Ypres is just as unlikely, for in this case the surnames were quite distinct. Archive 2009-06-01
The young composer wanders through a haunted mansion, trying to exorcise the spirits of his tyrannical father and castrating sisters.
The decision of Government to send reinforcements to Ireland was mentioned as a prelude to the information from Vienna of the birth of a son to the Princess Nikolas: and then; having conjoined the two entirely heterogeneous pieces of intelligence, the composer adroitly interfused them by a careless transposition of the prelude and the burden that enabled him to play ad libitum on regrets and rejoicings; by which device the lord of Earlsfont might be offered condolences while the lady could express her strong contentment, inasmuch as he deplored the state of affairs in the sister island, and she was glad of a crisis concluding a term of suspense thus the foreign-born baby was denounced and welcomed, the circumstances lamented and the mother congratulated, in a breath, all under cover of the happiest misunderstanding, as effective as the cabalism of Prospero's wand among the Neapolitan mariners, by the skilful Irish development on a grand scale of the rhetorical figure anastrophe, or a turning about and about. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
The public rendering of songs is not wrong if due acknowledgement is given to the lyricist, composer and musicians.
Pianist-composer Childs is a hometown phenomenon busy carving out a career between the jazz and classical worlds.
This CD was produced by the composer, so I suppose the performances adhere closely to his wishes.
(TIM-puh-nee) Italian for kettledrums; the term timpani is often preferred by composers and performers. Timpani
His influence as a composer was much greater than posterity has generally recognized.
Today, this volume stands as a fitting and lasting monument of its time to Finzi's pioneering work on behalf of the composer whose achievements he valued so much.
(Soundbite of music) Mr. ABDULLAH IBRAHIM (Composer, Pianist, Flutist): (Foreign language Spoken) (Singing) ELLIOTT: Today, Ibrahim again makes his home in South Africa in the hills outside of Cape Town. Abdullah Ibrahim Stays Rooted to His Homeland
Mozart, at the age of three, learnt the clavecin by watching his sister play; a year afterwards he composed admirably, at the age of seven he played the violin at first sight without having had any teacher, and proved himself a composer of genius before he reached his twelfth birthday. Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution
Rome in the nineteenth century was a Mecca for painters, sculptors, architects, printmakers, writers, and composers from all over the world.
From the opening bars, I was hooked not only on the piece, but on the composer - to me, a major voice.
Scott Joplin is regarded as the pre-eminent composer of ragtime compositions.
The composer of some 70 operas, Adam is remembered as a pioneer and writer of graceful, fluent music in an Italianate idiom with dramatic power.
Around the turn of the century, composers began to experiment with atonality, dissonance and primitive rhythms.
Much of what Elgar as composer put into practice went well beyond what was available to him in the textbooks or what could have been derived from an institutional academic course on music.
The band make no bones about acknowledging the soul, funk, and jazz roots of hip-hop without being pretentious posers.
With a look of determination about her, the composer is clearly up for the challenge.
Jewbeard, knowing that the color is called celeste green is indeed an indication of whether one is a real cyclist or a poser, but this guy thinks that a 55cm. fits a six footer, so we can probably securely place him in the poser category. Worst of NYC Craigslist Bike Ads: Spikes and Troughs
No composer was considered worthy of the name until he had written an opera.
Whenever excited, the composer would strum his tune on the piano even at midnight.
In the case of the American composer it is certainly true that we "excessively demeane ourselves in a good action. 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
Romantic composers would then be those who have sought their ideals in other directions and striven to give them expression irrespective of the restrictions and limitations of form -- composers who, in short, prefer content to manner. A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
Now the virtuoso guitarist/composer's classical roots are calling him back.
The Czechs are over-endowed with great composers, but the symphony that stirs them most comes from a minor master.
Throughout his life he referred to himself as German by birth and a German composer. Times, Sunday Times
More than 400 years after Italian composer Alessandro Striggio wrote his extravagant 40-part Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno, it has been rediscovered by a Berkeley music scholar who identified the work and rescued it from obscurity. For Choral Music aficionados
His interest in the composer grew even more intense when he was introduced to Edin Karamazov, a lutanist from Bosnia. Sting's 'Labyrinth': 16th Century Pop Music
Dubost had herself conceived the ballet as a musical caprice and had given the ten leaves of her fan to ten different composers asking each of them to compose a single dance number.
The glockenspiel was a big hit early on because composers always wanted to write for bells, and there was no practical way to do that. Disquiet » The Public Record
These, however, have more to do with the composer's extramusical commentary than with anything specific to the notes; one could argue that all music is spiritual.
Like his father, Alfonso the younger was well known as a composer of church music, writing English anthems for the Anglican Church as well as motets to Latin words.
The fourth edition of the hymnary is said to be the most Scottish yet with more than 100 hymns by Scottish composers.
As a professional composer I owe much to Radio 3.
Annual royalties for composers collected in Europe alone total about €600 million.
Of course the state where their representative is the long opposer to a bill acknowledging that slaves built Capitol would love to have her. Iowa GOP to Palin: Come to Des Moines
In 1930, the composer transcribed the score for two pianos.
The composer has made a kind of ‘concerto for orchestra’ and features the harp and clarinet in its later stages as concertante instruments.
This evening, though, Davis will make his debut in the orchestra pit at Richard Wagner's Bayreuth festival theatre in Bavaria, conducting the composer's 1850 work, Lohengrin.
But the movie character and the real-life teacher do share a mutual dream of earning their livings as composers of music.
Insects serve as pollinators for food crops, nutritious sustenance for a range of birds and mammals, and decomposers of plant and animal products.
Like other great composers he mastered a wide range of musical genres, including symphonies, concerti, film music, operas, program pieces and ballets such as Romeo and Juliet.
Kudos to Szokolay for devoting part of his program to some of the composer's underrated keyboard gems.
At most periods in the history of opera, composers have valued and exploited the scope of the chorus for complementing and heightening the functions of principals and orchestra.
Some of that composer's most deeply felt works are in minor keys.
The finale takes on almost orchestral proportions, demonstrating the composer's wish to be associated with more than folk music and cute miniatures.
She counts among the most gifted of the current generation of composers.
It's been believed for centuries that great writers, composers and scientists are essentially quite different from ordinary people.
Michael, it turns out, works freelance, as a composer of radio jingles.
It too accumulated an impressive number of guitarists and composers especially as baroque music reached its peak.
In one of the larger rooms there is a solfege class (singing practice, using scales), or one of composer Ramón Montes de Oca´s wonderful lectures on Chopin, or Webern, or Renaissance music. Life and music in Guanajuato
Sunroom for garden dining, barbecue & hood, marble sink with garbage disposer and custom talavera mural. ESTATE LIQUIDATION-to be sold to the highest bidder.
Russian composer, has given us in his symphony "Antar" a tone picture of this Arabian Negro's life that opens and closes with an atmospheric eastern pastorale of great beauty. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916
Some people see cyclists as posers with their skin-tight brightly coloured Lycra jerseys, padded shorts and shaved legs.
This melody immortalized its composer
Nocturne – a term taken over by Chopin from the Irish composer John Field, but frequently employed by painters, too, particularly Whistler – is written in the relaxed, ambulatory tone of an 18th-century rambler's tale. Nocturne: A Journey in Search of Moonlight by James Attlee – review
The success of a popular composer depends on his melody.
What I can thoroughly recommend is a recording of Brecht songs with various composers Weill, Eisler, Dessau etc. sung by Robyn Archer - our antipodean friends may know of her. Quick crossword No 12,709
Under the 1909 copyright law and its progeny, a song's composers collect royalties for a ‘public performance’ like the radio broadcast of a CD.
All sections are given titles, as though the composer had envisaged the work as a suite of character pieces.
None the less his reputation as at once the most searching and accessible of contemporary composers has not diminished.
A statue was erected to mark the bicentenary of the composer's birth.
Compulsory licensing was introduced in response to a Supreme Court decision that deprived composers of royalties.
Although I was a 2000-McCain supporter and an ardent 2008-McCain opposer, I am very glad to see him make this response instead of the previous "why are you trying to call me old? McCain defends his 'bearings'
Masterclasses will be taken by a variety of composers and soloists.
The city was and is home to many great painters, sculptors, poets and composers ... a city of romance.
Most, in fact, are relatively early pieces by composers who are now mid-career.
About 1500, composers adopted the practice of paired imitation and through imitation, the repetition of short melodic passages in two voices or in all parts.
This was a home question, and a poser, for Ned had not the least idea of what sum he ought to ask for his work, and at the same time he had a strong antipathy to that species of haggling, which is usually prefaced by the seller, with the reply, "What'll ye give? The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West
I have to say I agree with the hungriest of kings, with emperors even, historians, composers, and with every sole debauchee known to man. Diminish the moon
The success of a popular composer depends on his melody.
Very few composers in this period have wasted time in crowing over the internal contradictions of their predecessors.
In formal structure, Mortal Thoughts blends two rich but infrequently employed musical traditions: the chamber operas of Benjamin Britten and his musical descendants (characterized by the use of small orchestral forces) and the experimental, edgy opera monodramas of composers like Schoenberg, (Erwartung, Die glückliche Hand) and Poulenc (La voix humaine). Rodney Punt: The Mortal Thoughts of Lady Macbeth: A Chamber Opera of Horrors at Fais Do-Do
His own scores reveal him as the most artful of 'artless' composers. "Marse Henry" : an autobiography,
Critics, meanwhile, judge performances by the degree of textual fidelity to the "urtext" -- a score that tries to reproduce the composer's original intent. What Music Has Lost
Pianist and composer William Bolcom and Joan Morris, mezzosoprano, have been concertizing together as husband and wife since 1972.
We live in a time when people traverse lots of music, but in classical music the composer traverses larger musical structures.
February 17th, 2010 at 7: 29 pm tombaker says: harmando thinks using teenage girl text-message acronyms is awesome, because he’s a sober and serious, intelligent grownup, and not a hopeless poser loser waving his boogerfinger around in territory that does not welcome him or his “ideas”. Think Progress » Confused Karl Rove Falsely Accuses Obama Of Having ‘A Little Bit Of Confusion’ About Stimulus Jobs Numbers
She swept up the bottle, opened it, and poured the liquid into the kitchen sink, then switched on the garbage disposer and ground the root into nothingness. Root in a Bottle
He is also an accomplished composer and well-used to dispensing words of wisdom.
The link between aesthetics and politics which forms the novel's principal thesis is only an abstract one - in practice, the link did not exist, and most of the writers, artists, filmmakers and composers who began by espousing the cause of a New Jerusalem built from Marxist revolutionism ultimately found themselves cast adrift in a murky sea of violence, war, totalitarianism and genocide. A private story
The composer's upbeat arrangements, jazzy and virtuoso, added a convincing tango beat to some of the Yiddish songs not originally conceived as such.
Composers and music theorists have long been preoccupied with the relationship between sound and space.
A fully realized score, completely notated by the composer, is required.
Other unique curiosities are the 3 Sonatas that the composer wrote for each of the main woodwind instruments; oboe, bassoon and clarinet, although those for cor anglais and flute never saw the light of day.
Sometimes after the exposition the composer creates excitement by bringing the entries of the subject nearer to each other so that they overlap.
She comes across as clued-up and self aware, and in her work she is beginning to fulfil her immense potential as a musician and composer.
On this view, a human being might be compared to a composer or songwriter creating a piece of music.
In the end, however, both new works were set to scores by contemporary composers.
The composer began as a Schoenberg disciple and produced a lovely piano concerto in the dodecaphonic style.
Benjamin Britten was a British composer who was notable in the twentieth century.
No composer was considered worthy of the name until he had written an opera.
The composer's first symphony was greeted with such savage criticism that he lost all confidence in his abilities. Times, Sunday Times
His latest project is a three-album compilation titled “Tryptych” that contains new music. melodies and instrumentals from the composer’s works that had yet to have been performed. Galactica Ii | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
These modernist Manhattanites are probably most closely associated with the neo-classical composer and his macro-minimalist mesmerism.
But the composer's moviola is different from other ones. Click Loops
His music, comprising mostly songs, dance-tunes, laments, and some religious pieces, draws upon native tradition but was also influenced by European composers such as Vivaldi and Corelli.
Most composers of Mass settings at this time were in the habit of sectionalizing the long movements, and Manchicourt adheres to this practice, dividing the Gloria into two after the words ‘Filius Patris’. Archive 2009-06-01
Singing or playing is doing; reading the notes is doing; studying out the composer's meaning is doing; making others feel it is doing; everything is doing; and _doing_ is true living, _provided it is unselfish_. Music Talks with Children
The composer's subtle sense of instrumental coloration is very much in evidence in this dance-theater piece.
So anxiety over suspensions will not rear its ugly head for Heworth until next week, but they still have a few selection posers to contend with as they prepare for the visit of fellow strugglers Waterhead.
That said, I cannot begin to assess the damage to British music that will ensue from the coming year's purblind promotion of a composer who failed so insistently to observe the rules of his craft.
I believe it would be a positive contribution to the discipline if composers could produce and maintain a serial publication that rivalled the major journals in historical musicology, ethnomusicology and music theory.
As an avid opposer of terrorism, I hope this unrealistic adventure of Prabhakaran, who has been in the forefront of bloodshed in Sri Lanka in the name of creation of independent Elam, will give a lesson to the terrorist organizations world over to give up arms and return to main stream of life. Sri Lankan Army Captures Mullaittivu Town, the Last Citadel of LTTE
Zander is known as a devotee of Gustav Mahler and is currently recording the composer's complete works with the London Philharmonia Orchestra, according to his website. Boston.com Top Stories
Like Hoagy Carmichael, the composer of "Georgia on My Mind," Ray Charles had a natural affinity for the lie of the land: his voice could embrace the purple-mountained uplift of "America the Beautiful" and ramble slyly through back roads and shantytowns, too. The Lord’s Music and the Devil’s Words
There is currently an open invitation for composers to write pieces for the bells.
Beethoven, Schumann and Chopin were leading Romantic composers.
Adams is deeply interested in the broader musical dimensions of culture, how pop music and classical music coexist and sometimes cross-fertilize, how composers need audience feedback, how musical generations succeed one another and how some artists will fight quixotic battles to their dying day, holding true to avant-garde orthodoxy no matter how isolating it is. A conversation with John Adams, composer and so much else
Veteran jazzmen like Charles Lloyd are frequently described as "saxophonist-composer-bandleaders," but in Mr. Lloyd's case that order is incorrect. Freddie, Jacky, Charlie and the Doc
Posers was the word, but I kind of felt that those who called other people posers were almost as destructive to the spirit of the thing as the fashion-victims themselves.
In this place, the ingenuity of the contriver and disposer of the walks had exerted itself to make the most of little space, and by screens, both of stone ornamented with rude sculpture, and hedges of living green, had endeavoured to give as much intricacy and variety as the confined limits of the garden would admit. The Abbot
C’est clair que les grandes marques ont tout intérêt d’y apposer leur présence, comme elle le ferait dans une ville de même taille. Déluge Second Life: ça recommence — Climb to the Stars
Among them were composers, instrumentalists, vocalists and lecturers in the theory of music.
Massine took this theme from Tchaikovsky's own letters to his patron in which he described a composer's search for ideas.
The invention of the long-playing vinyl record in 1948 liberated composers from the three-minute confines of 78 rpm recordings.
If so, they were rewarded with a fresh perspective on a composer of astonishing versatility, one whose best work speaks to high- and lowbrows alike without condescending to either.
Silver was also a prolific composer. Times, Sunday Times
Liszt's transcriptions of other composers' music are as highly regarded as his original piano works.
This seems entirely fitting for a composer who has often been content to embrace classicist formal integration and resist modernist formal fragmentation.
Kirstein was an artistic matchmaker in the manner of Diaghilev, bringing together choreographers, composers and visual artists.
Symphony #4 was finished in 1934 but languished unplayed until 1967, five years before the composer's death.
It seems to have been an afterthought, probably added to pep up interest in an obscure composer. Times, Sunday Times
The lyric by Enrique Santos Discepolo, master composer of the tango, sums up the situation here just as it did in postwar Buenos Aires: Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
There's a wonderful cover shot to the 1958 album Legrand Jazz, with pianist-composer Michel Legrand wearing an expression of insouciant expectation, Gauloise at the corner of his mouth, indolently summoning invisible sidemen to action. This week's new live music
Vier Ernste Geasnge "are German Austria composer Johannes Brahms"s last set vocal works, which also are the summary of Brahms"s lied composing.
The hymn was written by an obscure Greek composer for the 1896 Athens Olympics.
He was also a gifted music scholar, composer and pianist - a talent now beyond him due to his illness.
In the past, opposers claimed it was the beginning of a ‘slippery slope’ that would lead to parents selecting children for hair colour or intelligence.
One work the couple has performed frequently is a four-hand arrangement of Brahms's Fourth Symphony, written by the composer himself.
Each composer is placed in a pigeonhole or assigned to a particular school, while those who do not fit comfortably under any of the standard-isms get a category all to themselves.
It's the composer's musical valentine to London, the city of cockneys and kings.
Alongside his adult comedies and children's fantasies, he has co-written a host of musicals and revues, mainly with composer Paul Todd.
Harvey Nash, older, filled with regrets (sort of), more charming and arousable than ever, just in from the Coast, where he's reinvented himself as Nash Harvey, jingle composer and chronic bachelor, has returned to the scene of his first romantic crime. (read a sample chapter) Archive 2007-07-01

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