Sentence examples for classical honour from inspiring English sources

He then went to Balliol College, Oxford, where he obtained first-class honours in classical honour moderations in 1898 and in literae humaniores in 1900.

Abbado was the recipient of numerous awards including one of the UK's highest classical music honours, the Royal Philharmonic Society's Gold Medal in 2003.

He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Honour – Classical at the 4th Gionne Star Global Indian Music Academy (GiMA) Awards 2014.

The Aristotelian influence resulted in the plays of Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine, tragedies of honour using classical themes, highly sophisticated theatrical instruments capable of searching deeply into character and motive, and capable of creating the powerful tension of a tightly controlled plot.

Everyone else was dependent on the generosity of their children, a classical virtue more often honoured in theory than practice.

Pianist Dame Mitsuko Uchida is to receive the Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) Gold Medal, one of the highest honours in classical music.

In 2005 Alsop was named a MacArthur fellow, the first conductor to be accorded the honour, and received the Classical BRIT (British Record Industry Trust) Female Artist of the Year Award.

Claudio Abbado and Maurizio Pollini – two great veterans of the Italian classical music world – have each been honoured at the Royal Philharmonic Society awards.

It's such an honour that this music is the first classical work to headline Glastonbury.

Uniquely, he has been honoured both for his jazz and his classical trumpet playing, winning Grammy awards for recordings in both fields in the same years.

They act as the bedrock for the BBC Proms, now easily the biggest classical music festival in the world, and the station was recently honoured by a Gramophone special achievement award for services to classical music.