Sentence examples for concert composer from inspiring English sources
He achieved prominence as both a movie and concert composer until his death in 1996.
By 14, he was studying composition and theory, and wanted to become a concert composer.
"I'm not a frustrated concert composer, and the concert pieces I've done have been a small part of my work.
Settling in New York, where he intended to make a career as a concert composer, Mr. Rosenman supported himself by teaching piano.
Unperturbed, in the hours before the concert, composer Joanna Marsh and the singers set about redistributing her beguiling piece Fading into five parts.
The smoky, sinuous title trumpet solo for "100 Centre Street" begins like a film noir cliche but takes a series of surprising harmonic turns that sound more like the devices of a concert composer.
Is George Gershwin one of America's greatest song writers or concert composers?
The art of bending folk music to the will of concert composers began perhaps with Haydn.
Today's important concert composers include a generation of Chinese schooled in the microtonal inflections of pipa and erhu.
It also sounds more like a contemporary classical work than most pieces by rock stars moonlighting as concert composers.
It would even include Elliott Carter and Milton Babbitt, whose hyperarticulate musical speech, refining and redirecting Old World styles, differs essentially from the quasi-European pabulum of so many contemporary American concert composers.
