Sentence examples for a classical theme from inspiring English sources

The stage set had a classical theme — broken columns against a fiery sky — and a long, low ramp ran in front of it.

The Masque had a classical theme, featuring Greek gods and goddesses with wonderful costumes and props, including a full size chariot.

June 28-29 at 8 30: Those who loved Mark Morris's recent production of "Orfeo ed Euridice" at the Met can flock northward to see the Mark Morris Dance Group — in collaboration with fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center — perform another immortal opera on a classical theme, Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas".

Whatever the answer, they provided an open field for his fleet, notational brushwork, and in the late "Diana and Actaeon," his only known picture with a Classical theme, he gives it full rein, merging landscape and figures into a semiabstract fabric of washy paint and drawn line that prefigures Cézanne.

A classical theme is also present in many tracks, with the melody being provided by string instruments and deep drums to heighten the mood or increase tension.

And it proceeds at a leisurely, almost sensual pace, finding time to spend on card games (with instruction), a long amateur theatrical on a classical theme, dances and the friendly group rituals of a 1677 wedding night.

But a close listener might notice that whenever she shows Mr. Bowles, violins play a chirpy classical theme in the background.

Thus given that the Prom concert on BBC 2 is a defered relay, not going out till 8pm, surely the Peter Maxwell Davies programme could have been held over and a not strictly classical theme put in its place or simply a shorter programme inserted in the 7.30 to 8pm slot.

The group played the cheery, Haydnesque finale with a flourish and continued the Classical theme with an encore: a spirited, joyous performance of the fugal final movement of Mozart's String Quartet in G (K. 387), the first of his six "Haydn" Quartets.

Des Meeres und der Liebe Wellen (1831; The Waves of Sea and Love), often judged to be Grillparzer's greatest tragedy because of the degree of harmony achieved between content and form, marks a return to the classical theme in treating the story of Hero and Leander, which is, however, interpreted with a psychological insight anticipating the plays of Ibsen.

Richardson's calendar was followed by Karl Lagerfeld's, which with its classical theme and inclusion of a man, and older women, served as a counterweight.