Sentence examples for for the overture from inspiring English sources

A curtain, for the overture of "The Blue Train" (1924), was modeled after a Picasso painting.

Only the little scenario created for the overture by the director Alessandro Talevi really grabs one's attention.

Sink down in your seat, listen to the orchestra tune up for the overture, and put your daily cares out of your mind.

One of the rarest items is the Mendelssohn autograph score, for the overture to "Die Schöne Melusine," Op. 32, which Sotheby's said had never been closely examined by scholars.

He is perhaps best known for the overture to his opera Colas Breugnon (1936, after the novel by Romain Rolland; rev. 1953 , 1969 and for his suite The Comedians (1940).

At least 21 people were killed in the attacks, helping to lay the foundation for the overture by the sheiks and the apparent withdrawal by the militia, officers said.

Composers can easily obtain commissions for pieces of the overture or tone-poem type, lasting from seven or eight minutes to eighteen or twenty: these are of the right size to be wedged between a concerto and a symphony.

In 1717 William Babell issued an arrangement for harpsichord of the overture and seven of the arias.

Yesterday afternoon at 2 in sold-out Trinity Church, Dr. Owen Burdick lifted his arms and plunged the Rebel Baroque Orchestra into the start of the overture for the church's annual "Messiah".

This production was most noted for its staging of the overture, which charted Nellie's journey from Little Rock, Arkansas, to the South Pacific.

Meyerbeer heard and approved Alkan's arrangement of the overture for four hands (which Alkan played with his brother Napoléon) in 1849; published in 1850, it is the only record of the overture, which was scrapped during rehearsals at the Opéra.