Sentence examples for artistic priority from inspiring English sources

The blowing of minds was an artistic priority.

This is an "interesting" and "worthy" idea, Gunn admitted, but questioned if it should "come before notions of intellectual and artistic priority … and the sheer, apolitical idea of 'art for arts' sake'".

Losing this painting makes Britain look parochial and stuffy and frankly confused about our artistic priorities.

That Mr. van Zweden and the Dallas players seized the opportunity speaks well of their shared artistic priorities and working relationship.

Is it a clash of personalities, a disagreement over artistic priorities, an argument over spending or a failure of management?

Yet the ability of any music director to win the support of board members for important artistic priorities is a legitimate measure of the director's effectiveness.

In September Alan Gilbert made a statement about his artistic priorities by opening his first program as music director of the New York Philharmonic with the premiere of a work by the Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg, the orchestra's newly appointed composer in residence.

In his wonderful book Art and Homosexuality, Christopher Reed traces the concept to the mid-19th century: "Artistic priorities shifted during this period away from skills and knowledge acquired by academic study and toward expression of a personality type defined by ambition, adventurousness, rebelliousness, and constant innovation".

His artistic philosophy gave priority to what may be called "emotional progression"—i.e., the establishment of an immediate rapport with the audience through the anticipation and eventual achievement of catharsis.

Word is that Daniel Kramer's first priority as newly appointed artistic director is to restore some of the shattered confidence of chorus, orchestra, technical teams and all the central workforce of the company.

But sooner or later, a franchise's artistic quirks give way to a new priority: the survival and continuation of the brand, with the full awareness that customers expect both a reliable formula and a few surprises.