Sentence examples for composer at all from inspiring English sources

It is surprising that Crawford Seeger became a composer at all.

Not a composer at all in the Monk or Ellington sense and given at times to a certain pianistic pomposity, Garner nevertheless brilliantly recomposed the hundreds of Broadway songs he played during his long career into astonishingly fresh, extemporized pieces.

Richard Howgill, who held the post from 1952 to 1959, took the view that although Webern "might have been a small composer of some significance, Schoenberg wasn't really a composer at all".

"There's virtually nothing on contemporary music or on living composers at all any more, and when I was a kid there was tons," he says.

Both provide room and board for 30 or so artists, including writers, visual artists, musicians and composers at all stages of their careers.

Lincoln Center brought in John Eliot Gardiner to conduct Mozart Masses and symphonies, but it gave more attention to a not-at-all-dead composer, the impossibly vibrant Osvaldo Golijov, whose flamenco opera "Ainadamar" and pan-Iberian song cycle "Ayre" played to sold-out halls.

Elliott Carter, amazingly, is still a thriving composer at a hundred and one.

There's an art to it, just like a composer at an orchestra.

She found success in Hollywood, where she met George Antheil, an experimental composer, at a dinner party in 1940.

COMPOSER PORTRAITS The core of the Miller Theater's season is this series of in-depth explorations of a single composer at a time, focusing on figures whose work is rarely performed in New York, if it is known here at all.

Lyricist and composer at piano composing a popular song.