The phrase "a time when musical" is not complete and lacks clarity in written English.
It could be used in contexts discussing specific periods or events related to music, but it needs additional information to convey a clear meaning.
Example: "There was a time when musical innovation was at its peak, leading to the creation of many timeless classics."
Alternatives: "an era of music" or "a period of musical".
He was a cosmopolitan at a time when musical nationalism thrived.
It seems that we have very sadly lost yet another from a time when musical giants walked the earth.
But his act is a throwback to a time when musical comedy was uncool and proud of it.
Easy: reminding listeners of a time when musical theater orchestras produced rich, lustrous sounds, before a mixture of economics and technology led to the reduction in the ranks.
Moreover, their best songs embody a time when musical and political orthodoxies were changing at speed, and a lot of people felt suddenly liberated.
But -- as The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians acknowledged with a vengeance in 2001, when it ballooned from an unwieldy 20 volumes to an astounding 29 -- at a time when musical boundaries are falling in every direction, updating also means an expansion of purview.
There was a time when musical-theater composers, impressed by the mega-success of Mr. Lloyd Webber, strove for pumped-up operatic grandeur.
The place was Manchester home to Joy Division, the Smiths, and the Durutti Column and the year was 1987, a time when American musical forms like hip-hop, electro, acid, and house music were crossing the Atlantic and mutating into new shapes in the UK.
Not only is it a time when his musical past and present merge; it's also his 18th year sober.
Gergiev was a student at a time when Soviet musical policy was still staunchly anti-modernist, and works by Western avant-gardists could only be secretly circulated in samizdat copies.
At a time when disparate musical styles are crammed together willy-nilly in search of some combustive crossover mix, the notion of simply juxtaposing two styles in more or less pure forms remains relatively rare.
