Sentence examples for devoted a concert from inspiring English sources

Mr. Sheik is so comfortable working with dead lyricists that he once devoted a concert to replicating "Pink Moon," an revered piece by an unsung hero of his, the dead-by-overdose British folkie, Nick Drake.

Having built his reputation playing contemporary music, with a subspecialty in the music of Ives, he devoted a concert this season to Haydn sonatas, played beside music of two contemporary composers, Mauricio Kagel and Judith Weir.

Philip Glass is a charter member of that club, and on Sunday evening, Signal devoted a concert at Le Poisson Rouge to his Symphony No. 3 (1995) and the Suite from "The Hours" (2003).

Besides playing in both the Glass and the Guo operas over the weekend, the orchestra, led by John Kennedy, the festival's resident conductor, devoted a concert at the College of Charleston Sottile Theater on Sunday evening to music by John Cage and Jonny Greenwood.

Pomerium, a 13-person a capella group that has been honing its medieval and Renaissance repertory for three decades, is devoting a concert to the music of Josquin Desprez.

The highly individual work of Robert Wyatt and Antony and the Johnsons, the band led by Antony Hegarty, has featured in the Unthanks repertoire before, but it was McNally's idea that they should devote a concert exclusively to their music.

| June 13 at 8: Inna Faliks loves the variation form so much that she's devoting a whole concert to the genre, hollowing out Bach's Goldberg Variations (only performing the opening and closing arias and one variation in between) and filling the void with works by Bright Sheng, Jennifer Higdon, Derek Bermel ("Kontraphunktus"), Lukas Foss, Fred Hersch, and David Del Tredici, among others.

The pianist and composer Fred Hersch, along with the Gramercy Trio and the pianists Blair McMillen and Natasha Paremski, devote a full concert to Mr. Hersch's works on Friday, among them "Saloon Songs" (2005), "Tango Bittersweet" (1990, revised in 2006) and "Lyric Piece" (2004).

NEW YORK VIRTUOSO SINGERS Harold Rosenbaum's group, true to its name, devotes an entire concert to the daunting yet exuberant music of Charles Wuorinen, including such works as the "Missa Brevis" and the "Mass for the Reconstruction of St . Lukein the Fields".

2005: The Miller Theater devotes a Composer Portrait concert to a forgotten Soviet composer, Nikolai Roslavets.

For a mainstream institution to devote a high-profile concert to the complicated interaction between American and Latin American pop is still something of a rarity.