Sentence examples for becoming classical from inspiring English sources

Flash-lit, with inky shadows, in a corner of a white-walled apartment, the picture is a baroque icon, becoming classical as its period qualities recede in time.

In all aspects Dürer's art was becoming strongly classical.

Not content as Cassandra, Mr. Lebrecht is becoming a classical music sibyl as well.

But soon she had to choose between becoming a classical or popular singer.

Born in the Soviet Union in 1979 and musically prodigious from the start, Gerstein had an early encounter with jazz before deciding, aged 16, to becoming a classical pianist.

And it played over the blues and folk she later sang when she got turned down by the Curtis Institute, ending her hopes of becoming a classical pianist.

Finland's politicians actually had a lot to do with the country's becoming the classical music powerhouse it is today.

After failing his first degree at Oxford in mysterious circumstances, he became a clerk at the Patent Office before becoming a classical scholar at the age of 33, eventually becoming Professor of Latin at Cambridge in 1911.

They are untouched so far by the commercial possibilities of becoming the classical version of another musical Mormon family from Utah, the Osmonds, who started out singing on television in the 1970's.

(Gelb says that he urged Sony not to seek the attention of the press for this endeavor; when the company nonetheless did so, the critical reception was disparaging, with the Associated Press comparing the concert to "a baseball fantasy camp for someone who once had aspirations of becoming a classical musician").

Even so, he fantasized about attending Harvard or Juilliard and dreamed of becoming a classical composer who would carry black musical idioms into the wider, whiter world and be praised by other blacks "as a credit to the race," Rampersad says.