Sentence examples for be a classical composer from inspiring English sources

It was 1999, and he was a freshman at the California Institute of the Arts, outside Los Angeles, where he fully intended to learn to be a classical composer.

One's father was a sharecropper; the other's is a classical composer.

I don't want people to think I am a classical composer.

You are a classical composer, swimming against the tide of popular culture.

What happens when you tell your emo-listening, hip-hop-dancing, ironically "American Idol -analyzing Idol -analyzing you are a classmatescomposer?

"I was a classical composer writing chamber works, performing on piano and having, to be honest, little success," he said.

"I just want to say that Billy Joel has always been a classical composer to me," said Joo, who has silky shoulder-length hair and wore tails.

It's easy to imagine that cocooned in the silky strings of his early 80s charts hit Chi Mai is a classical composer just wriggling to get out.

I've said it over and over, I'm a classical composer, I'm not a rock'n'roll musician - I'd love to conduct a Brahms or Mahler cycle".

"There are people in the classical world - let's say Philip Glass - who have a whole audience who don't necessarily know that he is a classical composer, but are just interested in the music.

Such artistic hubris feeds into the innate need for pop stars who reach a certain plateau to be seen as more than pop stars: see also Paul McCartney thinking he's a classical composer.