Sentence examples for expanded quartet from inspiring English sources

Seidemann, who works closely with European officials in their efforts to advance the peace process, predicts the expanded Quartet won't fly without Washington's blessing.

But even with U.S. support, it's unclear whether an expanded Quartet would be any more effective than the original four-member body, which Khaled Elgindy, a former adviser to Palestinian leadership, described as "a statement-producing mechanism," dominated by U.S. policy preferences.

The arrangers made intelligent decisions about expanding quartet material to a big band.

For much of last weekend's performance, a halfway stop in the century-long survey The Rest is Noise, Spira played like a vastly expanded string quartet, democratically but without much flexibility.

In 1951 the trio expanded to a quartet, with Mr. Desmond returning.

The quartet expanded to the 47-piece Junkyard Orchestra on display.

The rest were performed by Mr. Sherry's quartet, expanded for Charles Wuorinen's String Sextet (1989), the only work here that Mr. Sherry commissioned, and "A Set of Arrangements for String Sextet" (2008) by Jesse Mills, one of the quartet's violinists.

Talks on a fresh bailout began on Friday, with the reviled "troika" of creditors now expanded to a quartet, as the EU's bailout fund, the European Stability Mechanism, joined the International Monetary Fund, the European commission and the European Central Bank.

He hired Teddy Wilson to accompany him on piano in a small group -- originally a trio, later expanded to a quartet with Lionel Hampton on vibes -- that shared the bill with the big band but performed separately.

The concert began with a jazz quartet, expanded gradually to a sextet (with the addition of the trombonist Curtis Fuller and the trumpeter Eddie Henderson), and then veered off in its second half into classical and big-band territory.

He was accompanied, for much of the concert, by a string quartet that expanded his filigreed guitar parts with hints of fiddle tunes, swelling chords and flickers of pizzicato.