Sentence examples for failed composer from inspiring English sources

The author dispels the confusion over the fourth man, Clifford Gray, a failed composer and playboy.

Although it's been many years since their divorce, Leo Coopersmith, a driven but failed composer of serious music, has continued to occupy a large amount of space in Bea's psyche and apartment: he left behind a grand piano.

Although the only other character is Jenkins's coach and accompanist, a failed composer named Cosme McMoon, Mr. Temperley is less interested in the laughs derived from their performances — though he includes plenty — than he is in the mysteries implied by their relationship.

Before feeling too sorry for him, though, remember that within a few years the failed musical theater composer could drown his sorrows in the scads of money made by the March King.

In fact, thinking about it, seven out of my nine novels feature or are narrated by passive, slightly depressed men – often failed writers or composers or both – who show a rather uncommitted sexuality and tend to fixate on past romantic disappointments.

Could this unwillingness to reshape his musical vision be the central reason Ellington failed as a Broadway composer?

I found these unpersuasive: Gero failed to capture the composer's skittish manner, and the texts came from "Testimony," the memoir dubiously attributed to Shostakovich.

Clifford Gray: A failed movie star, undistinguished composer and outstanding raconteur, whose career died when he was arrested in possession of a pistol and an opium pipe.

But the daring game-plan – picking the 76-year-old Leicester crooner with a stage name lifted from a 19th-century German romantic composer – ultimately failed to avoid the usual result.

With the forthcoming centenary celebrations in mind, Lebrecht wrote: "I cannot begin to assess the damage to British music that will ensue from the coming year's purblind promotion of a composer who failed so insistently to observe the rules of his craft".

As Mr. Boulez saw it, all these composers had failed to pursue their most radical impulses, and it fell to a new generation — specifically, to him — to pick up the torch.