Sentence examples for concentrate on composition from inspiring English sources

As soon as the working year was over, in the last days of July, he would leave Paris and spend the two months until early October in a hotel, usually by one of the Swiss lakes, to concentrate on composition.

She quickly persuaded him to give up his career as a virtuoso and to concentrate on composition.

At the age of 50, Bernstein retired from the Philharmonic, intending to concentrate on composition – but teaching was still in his blood.

When, in 1951, Orr decided to leave to concentrate on composition, he persuaded a reluctant college council to take on the young organist.

Bruckner's decision to concentrate on composition in fact came as a result of hearing a performance in 1862 of that same overture.

He encouraged his wife to concentrate on composition, and, curtailing her public performing, she undertook a rigorous course of self-instruction in musical theory and composition.

That was it, boy!" Wooley recorded one solo album as a performer but is concentrating on composition.

And while most of these young musicians are thrilling, visceral improvisers, they're doing it by concentrating on composition.

Thereafter he concentrated on composition, beginning a successful collaboration with the lyricist Ted Koehler in 1929 with the song "Get Happy".

"In many ways the year of concentrating on composition was very useful, because finally I had the time to work on harmony, so that writing a piece now is a simpler process," he said.

Pera Tantina -- he and Padrissa are the only members of the Moya Five to remain in La Fura -- is involved with "Manes"; Miki Espuma is concentrating on composition; and Hansel Cereza, Jurgen Muller and Pep Gatelli are currently preparing new shows.