Sentence examples for a watershed work from inspiring English sources

"Everything I Own" was a watershed work for Engler.

And in October the Philharmonic immersed subscription audiences in the gnarly industrial roar of "Kraft," a watershed work by Magnus Lindberg, the orchestra's composer in residence.

More than 45 years have passed since Terry Riley composed "In C," a watershed work that heralded the breakthrough of Minimalism.

In "Gondwana," a watershed spectral work named after the Indian legend of a sunken continent as well as after the gargantuan prehistoric land mass that included present-day Antarctica, South America and Africa, Mr. Murail acoustically simulates electronic processes to build and destabilize the harmonic textures.

More recently, in 1598 Monteverdi had helped the court's musical establishment produce Giovanni Battista Guarini's play Il pastor fido, described by theatre historian Mark Ringer as a "watershed theatrical work" which inspired the Italian craze for pastoral drama.

In the view of the music critic Andrew Clements, the Éluard songs include many of Poulenc's greatest settings; Johnson calls the cycle Tel Jour, Telle Nuit (1937) the composer's "watershed work", and Nichols regards it as "a masterpiece worthy to stand beside Fauré's La bonne chanson".

Jan Younghusband, the BBC's commissioning editor for music and events, said: "It is not my commission so I cannot speak about why a post-watershed work was commissioned for a pre-watershed slot … normally we would edit round anything inappropriate but in this case we can't, because it would destroy the work.

A similar all-embracing metamorphosis is obviously what's being aspired to in the latest translation of this watershed work, probably the greatest of all American operas.

The show's second theme is Art Nouveau's cult of nature, which may have been inspired by Charles Darwin's watershed work on evolution and the growing fascination with the natural sciences.

"This happened because a lot of citizens up and down the watershed worked hard for 40 years to improve the river".

Over the course of a school year, a high school biology class and a local watershed partnership worked together to design a study to determine the willingness to pay for ecosystem service restoration in a local degraded watershed.