Sentence examples for general listeners from inspiring English sources

In general, listeners tend to be white, male and conservative.

These were not pieces to win the hearts of general listeners, resembling an earlier version of text messaging, leaving the impression of composers exchanging private communications among themselves.

In general, listeners behaved more informally than I was used to: some older people, following the looser etiquette of Peking opera, talked among themselves, pointed at the stage, or read newspapers.

With its easy access to general listeners and its appeal to the sophisticate's yearning for some misty long-ago innocence, the so-called pastoral tradition of 20th-century British music was by any calculation a big success.

For Mr. Whitney the pipe organ's fall from grace took place in the "organ wars" of the 1960's and 70's, when builders and players adopted esoteric historical practices that estranged general listeners.

Now, with this wealth of Masses more or less sorted out, there is nothing more for any of us, specialists and general listeners alike, to do but dream of the "St.

This gives the general listener a much more colourful group of records to think about.

By making that performance readily available to the general listener, Impulse! sparked a major advance in the appreciation, the understanding — and the love — of "A Love Supreme".

After all, how could an award that introduces the general listener to some very different records not be a powerful thing?

Tweedy and Bennett frequently argued over whether the album should be accessible to a general listener, or attempt to cover new musical ground.

But in general, younger NPR listeners tend not to have as strong a sense of belonging as older listeners do.