Sentence examples for conventional program from inspiring English sources

"Friends" the series is a conventional program, but the outtakes are reality.

On Sunday the Manhattan String Quartet offers a more conventional program of Schubert and Brahms quartets, with a slightly modernist twist courtesy of Copland's Two Movements for String Quartet.

Rather than a conventional program grouping sets of songs by individual composers, the Gunns tried something harder: tracing the sweep of American life in song, grouped into sets named for different milestones from "Childhood" to "Old Age".

Contrast that approach with that of the equally title-conscious New York Philharmonic, where the barest hint of the Second Viennese School qualifies an otherwise conventional program to be part of its current Schoenberg tribute.

The Emerson String Quartet has undertaken so many big projects over the years — Beethoven, Bartok, Mendelssohn and Shostakovich cycles, most notably — that when it offers a conventional program, it can seem as if the ensemble is setting adventure and ambition aside and taking it easy.

In lieu of conventional program notes, Mr. Bark provided a poem that offered a litany of baleful conditions — "where luxury disempowers the meek," "where gun threats seem acceptable for safety of your country" and the like — ending with "Here I live... dreaming shalom".

Talk about conventional programming.

Some programs remain dedicated to conventional programming.

Yet the dismayingly conventional programming he has planned for next year suggests that he is creatively spent.

Ms. Manson confirms that the committee formed to recruit her successor has made more conventional programming a priority.

Chief among them is the notion that conventional programming is too often an exercise in conductorial whimsy.