Sentence examples for formidable programs from inspiring English sources

White is in his second year as athletic director after a stint at Arizona State of the Pac-10, where Bellotti and Willingham built formidable programs.

On Monday he played a recital at the hall, a predictably formidable program.

Just a week earlier on the same stage the ensemble had played a formidable program of works by the British composer Oliver Knussen, who was in attendance.

Last week Riccardo Muti took the podium at the New York Philharmonic to conduct a formidable program dominated by Schubert's monumental Symphony No. 9, aptly called the "Great".

The formidable program includes arias and scenes from Mozart's "Entfuhrung aus dem Serail," Bellini's "Puritani," Donizetti's "Anna Bolena and Verdii's "Macbeth" and "La Traviata".

This was certainly my impression on Friday night at the packed Miller Theater hearing Mr. Taylor play "New Études," a formidable program the likes of which few pianists would even conceive of.

For his debut, the second concert in the Rock Hotel Piano Fest, he is playing a formidable program: George Crumb's "Makrokosmos" on the first half and Liszt's "Transcendental Études" after the intermission.

Mr. Dudamel's much-anticipated official inaugural came on Thursday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall, a formidable program with Mahler's First Symphony and the premiere of a new work by John Adams.

(Zachary Woolfe) Classical Music ★ Emanuele Arciuli (Sunday) This virtuoso Italian pianist offers a formidable program that balances Beethoven's rich Sonata No. 31 (Op. 110) with Marcello Panni's "Farben"; Giacinto Scelsi's "Ka," Suite No. 10; and Alban Berg's formidable Sonata (Op. 1).

Despite the formidable program, the event received mention only via a photograph in the Sunday supplement of the Berliner Tageblatt captioned: "A Musical Prodigy: Josef Szigeti".

As the organist and choral director of the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola on Park Avenue from 1989 until this summer, Mr. Tritle nurtured one of the city's most formidable music programs.