Sentence examples for an overture with from inspiring English sources

At Avery Fisher Hall on Monday night 2,800 people sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" together, the orchestra played an overture with the red-white-and-blue chords of Aaron Copland, the movie stars came out -- Paul Newman Julia Robertss! -- and then the play began, a kind of ur-text for the 20th-century American coming-of-age story.

Thursday night's Game 6 was a masterpiece, Olivier playing Hamlet with backdrops by Matisse and an overture by Beethoven, with Scorsese filming.

And finally, at around 10.40pm, you got the first whiff of real politics, when Alan Johnson made an early coalition overture with a heartfelt speech on the shortcomings of the current voting system.

In Mr. Ax's own excellent adventure four years ago, he learned enough about playing timpani to try his hand at a Beethoven overture with the Toronto Symphony.

AT&T recently restarted an overture for Leap, with a deal coming together in a matter of weeks, a person briefed on the matter said.

Dr. Schadt recruited Mr. Hammerbacher, an overture that coincided with Mr. Hammerbacher's research into where next to best apply his skills.

The Brighton-based producer's new extended EP doesn't begin with a beat, but with an overture of lush synths and samples of exotic bird calls that summon up the tropical pinks and jungly greens that make up the record's cover.

Though Carousel famously did not begin with an overture, that doesn't stop them here from delivering the goods with "Carousel Waltz".

It begins with the sound of a cooing dove, and with an overture, "Anecdotes," which transforms the movements of nocturnal birds into military missions: the first words are "Sending the first scouts over / back from the place beyond the dawn".

Mendelssohn's teenage work, a self-conscious homage to Bach, opens with an overture in the French style followed by a fast fugal movement that impresses more with its technical facility than any expressive depth.

It opens with an overture featuring the only electronic music in her catalog, which introduces the work's postapocalyptic atmosphere.