Sentence examples for celebrity composer from inspiring English sources

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, each of the "small nations" had a celebrity composer.

Although the aged Stravinsky's eagerness to play the role of celebrity composer for the golden age of television (as long as the price was right) was an embarrassment, most of these episodes testify to the protean survival skills of an artist whose sense of identity was always in flux and whose cunning was commensurate with his talent.

More changes are on the way: a celebrity composer-in-residence, a contemporary series, and, in 2009, a new chief conductor, the musically assured, intellectually questing Alan Gilbert.

Julius Caesar and much younger seductress Cleopatra are the celebrities composer George Frideric Handel and librettist Nicola Francesco Haym goad and glamorize in the 1724 Giulio Cesare, which David McVicar is giving a remarkable, even reputation-changing, twist at the Metropolitan Opera House under conductor Harry Bicket.

From a center box, surrounded by fellow celebrities, the composer acknowledged the hoots and cries of a camera-crazy, banner-waving full house that seemed almost reluctant to turn its attention to the stage.

Fifty years after his death, it is hard to conceive how great a celebrity the Australian composer, pianist and folk-song collector once was.

Ms. Goncalves da Silva also entertained celebrities like the composer Heitor Villa-Lobos and the musician Noel Rosa, as well as many politicians.

On the first "Toast of the Town" show he introduced a concert pianist, a boxing referee, and a singing fireman, as well as such celebrities as the composer and librettist Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II and the comedians Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.

Although the program's celebrities included the composer Philip Glass (a world premiere), the cellist Yo-Yo Ma (who performed the premiere and other pieces as well), the new-wave string quartet Brooklyn Rider, the Galician bagpiper Cristina Pato, the jazz trumpeter Marcus Printup and the percussionist John Hadfield, the connecting thread was Lil Buck, whose real name is Charles Riley.

Practicing portraiture "as a form of contemporary history painting," in Chu's phrase, Courbet took it upon himself to paint both celebrities, such as the composer Hector Berlioz (who loathed the result) and the popular tenor Louis Gueymard, and bohemian oddballs, like the sometime writer Marc Trapadoux, whom he described in a letter as "the medicine man of a savage tribe..

Practicing portraiture "as a form of contemporary history painting," in Chu's phrase, Courbet took it upon himself to paint both celebrities, such as the composer Hector Berlioz (who loathed the result) and the popular tenor Louis Gueymard, and bohemian oddballs, like the sometime writer Marc Trapadoux, whom he described in a letter as "the medicine man of a savage tribe...