Sentence examples for composition who from inspiring English sources

He was an outstanding teacher of composition who encouraged his pupils to undertake significant work of their own.

The awards, which acknowledge achievements in dance and performance art, are named for Bessie Schönberg, a teacher of dance composition who died in 1997.

The matinee honored Bessie Schonberg, a teacher of dance composition who died last year and who served as artistic adviser to this group from Highland Park, N.J.

The biggest combatants were practitioners of complex, cutting-edge 12-tone composition who claimed the intellectual high ground and those who still wrote sonatas, symphonies and such, in essentially major and minor keys.

Only thirty-seven years old:— so much already done for immortality — so much time remaining to maintain and to extend his fame, and to atone for errors in conduct and levities in composition; who will not grieve that such a race has been shortened, though not always keeping the straight path — such a light extinguished, though sometimes flaming to dazzle and to bewilder?

Scythian Empire by Andrew Bird earns a place on the strength of "Routed by Sarmatians, thwarted by the Thracians"; while the mere title of Harry "The Hipster" Gibson's daring 1947 composition Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs Murphy's Ovaltine gets him the nod.

April 25 , 1921Amsterdam, Netherlands May 3, 2006 Karel Appel, (born April 25 , 1921 Amsterdam, Neth. died May 3, 2006, Zürich, Switz)., Dutch painter of turbulent, colourful, and semiabstract compositions, who was a cofounder (1948) of the COBRA group of northern European Expressionists.

Eventually, everyone from the light-gazers to the curiously mixed audience milling about the room to the collection of musicians on stage either soundchecking, jamming, or performing practiced compositions, who can say?—is enveloped by a fog machine with a zealous operator.

After graduation, Wolfe's newfound creativity was stymied by her first male composition instructor, who discouraged her from writing a zany work for chamber ensemble and trapeze artists.

Mr. Moncur, by then a Juilliard composition student who had made his mark with Ray Charles and the Art Farmer-Benny Golson Jazztet, provided just the inspiration he needed.

The Curtis Institute of Music mourns the passing of alumnus Gian Carlo Menotti (Composition 33), who served on the Curtis faculty from 1941 to 1955 and from 1965 to 1971.