Sentence examples for contemporary listener from inspiring English sources

Engaging the lucid and direct language of Douglas Langworthy's commissioned translation, the actors speak a poetry that neither distorts a sense of the original nor alienates the contemporary listener.

"Maybe that will inspire a contemporary listener to want to pay attention to what you're doing.

In 1921, it beat back a challenge from "California, Sweet Homeland of Mine," which, to the contemporary listener, manages to conjure the Exxon Valdez: "You're the land at the foot of the rainbow/Where the great pot of treasure was spilled".

The Rite of Spring still strikes many contemporary listeners as a startlingly modern work.

Much of pre-1800 musis is rooted in dance forms that would have been familiar to contemporary listeners.

But contemporary listeners might find the genre's optimistic spirit more exotic, and therefore more endearing, than it once seemed.

Two other murder ballads were hits this year, both from a viewpoint many contemporary listeners consider justified instead of corrupt.

These best-selling (for jazz, that is) recordings blended post-bop jazz, hip-hop, rock, and R. & B. and spoke to the postmodern leanings of contemporary listeners.

While the tunes written by bebop innovators like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bud Powell were often too volatile and complicated for contemporary listeners, Jobim found a way of using bebop harmonies — especially the tritone, or flattened fifth — as the basis for irresistibly lyrical melodies.

While the tunes written by bebop innovators like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bud Powell were often too volatile and complicated for contemporary listeners, Jobim found a way of using bebop harmonies especially the tritone, or flattened fifth as the basis for irresistibly lyrical melodies.

However, despite attaining a following among listeners in Europe, it was largely ignored by contemporary R&B listeners in the United States and did not sell well.