Sentence examples for had composed as from inspiring English sources

When he was young, in Florida, Michael would smokescreen his piano teachers, playing them pieces he had composed as a way of distracting them from noticing that he hadn't practised what they told him to.

Completed in 1998, the work is based on "Incises," a short virtuoso piano work Mr. Boulez had composed as a competition piece, and scored for an unusual lineup of three harpists, three pianists and three percussionists.

Last week, Mr. Fischer took on a new role — social critic — when the orchestra gave the premiere of an opera he had composed as a rebuke to what he and others see as growing tolerance for anti-Semitism in today's Hungary.

Cui, who championed the nationalist cause as a music critic for the next half-century, wrote a blistering review of a cantata Tchaikovsky had composed as his graduation thesis.

The two victims were on a "kill list" that Mainak Sarkar had composed — as was a second professor authorities believe the gunman intended to kill but could not find Wednesday on the bustling campus, police Chief Charlie Beck said.

Some of Kurtág's most beautiful pieces are the ones he has composed as memorials for friends or musicians.

In Vienna, meanwhile, two newly discovered piano works that Mozart is said to have composed as a child were given their premieres at the beginning of this month.

Another fun and useful way to invent new melody when you are stuck getting started is to pick a handful of artists you are familiar with, and try singing the lyrics you have composed as if you were each one of them.

What's more, the film's first-person testimony is so dramatically powerful and moving — and filmed with such a poised, untheatrical, fixed-focus, and long-take style — that I found myself wondering whether the director had composed it as a script and gathered a cast of actors to perform it for the camera.

He had composed music for it as early as 1917, and he added more in 1927, before there was any Nazi government to curry favor with.

(Crucified) is based on the general lamenting about the situation of the Christian, (Weeping, lamenting, worrying, fearing) which Bach had composed already in 1714 as one of his first cantatas for the court of Weimar.