Sentence examples for inventive playing from inspiring English sources

But among music professionals, he has long been held in high esteem for his dexterous and inventive playing.

Even the action sequences - Timon the meerkat hanging precariously over a waterfall, or a thrilling stampede of wildebeest through a narrow canyon - owe more to cascading silk and scrolls and inventive playing with scale than to hi-tech wizardry.

"Dixon's often astute novelty lyrics and shrewd arrangements were topped off by Sumlin's imaginative, angular, taut attack, frequent glisses, maniacally wide vibrato and percussive chords, all drawn with an exaggerated brush," the producer Dick Shurman observed of Mr. Sumlin's relentlessly inventive playing in his liner notes to a 1991 boxed set of Howlin' Wolf's work for Chess Records.

On Tuesday night, the band came to Madison Square Garden for an extraordinary two-hour performance, full of wildly inventive playing and -- even better -- lovely songs.

Audiences struggled to separate the masterly, inventive playing from the fact that Alexander, who is self-taught, had barely started middle school.

In both the well-known E minor Violin Concerto and the work in D minor that Mendelssohn composed when he was just 13, Alina Ibragimova's inventive playing is set in sharp relief against the Age of Enlightenment's accompaniments.

That may be because inventive play often requires adult involvement.

The most formally inventive play on view at the festival was also the most unsatisfying.

Baroque buildings were characterised by curves, domes, broken pediments and a gloriously inventive play on classical detailing.

(Gwen Orel) * 'SHILOH RULES' An inventive play by Doris Baizley gets excellent treatment by the cast of six actresses.

9 Ben Youngs 5/10 Not the night for inventive play from the foot of England's retreating scrum.