Sentence examples for classical vernacular from inspiring English sources

Scruton, 71, a philosopher of aesthetics, is a vocal enemy of modern architecture and author of The Classical Vernacular: Architectural Principles in an Age of Nihilism (as well as I Drink Therefore I Am: A Philosopher's Guide to Wine).

回 hui in 15 is in fact an event classifier for literary works, referring to both scenes in play and chapters in classical vernacular novels (which typically originated from 評書 pingshu 'oral storytelling').

MacMillan must have been another victim of Martha Graham's genius, trying to replicate her abstract emotionalism with classical vernacular.

Mr. Sharp often writes in combinations of classical and vernacular styles, and for ensembles with rock instrumentation.

In "Return," Mr. Garland's contribution to the season's first program, the mix of classical and vernacular made both sides look frivolous.

I'm especially big on historical recordings — on music made in the era when concertizing was a bigger business than recording and when the link between classical and vernacular music hadn't yet been broken.

But when Dvorak heard Harry Burleigh, a black conservatory student from Pennsylvania, sing "Go Down, Moses" and "Deep River," he had a revelation about what could constitute the basis of a truly American classical musical vernacular.

There, classical and vernacular styles mingled, in works by Hindemith and Stravinsky, and the shock of accidental death provided the creative spark, in Elliott Carter's "What's Next?" Between those dramatic bookends, Mr. Asbury devoted one program entirely to string music, and another mostly to concertos (or at least, works for soloist and orchestra).

There literally had never before been a song – classical or vernacular – that had blended so many disparate elements so imaginatively".

Actors on stage always spoke their lines in Classical Chinese; vernacular Chinese that imitated the common spoken language was not introduced into theatrical performances until the subsequent Yuan dynasty.

W.H. Auden turned from Marxist politics to Christian commitment, expressed in poems that attractively combine classical form with vernacular relaxedness.