Sentence examples for lighthearted work from inspiring English sources

At more than 20 minutes, this lighthearted work may be too long.

Originally scored for violin and orchestra, Tchaikovsky wrote the lighthearted work during the year of his ill-fated marriage.

In "Subirdia," the most lighthearted work on the program, the job fell to Ms. Smith, 30, whose father, Macklin Smith, is a nationally known birdwatcher.

It must be fun for the bass Samuel Ramey, whose specialties in the opera house are devils and villains, to imitate barnyard animals in a lighthearted work like "I Bought Me a Cat".

This lively, lighthearted work, written in 1877, offers no hint of the tortured circumstances of the composer's life that year, when he entered into a disastrous marriage and attempted suicide.

PopMatters' Josh Timmermann was very critical of the overtly serious tone of the record compared to the lighthearted work the band had done before, joking that the title of "Cheer Up, Boys" "sounds like the suggestion of a concerned fan for a band he or she used to actually care about".

BOOMERANG THEATER COMPANY Idyllic surroundings don't necessarily mean lighthearted works.

33 (whose slow movement Mr. Ax plays beautifully) and 43, both lighthearted works that Haydn wrote for the amateur market.

Graham devoted only one segment of her repertory to myth, and this season includes early, more spare pieces from the 1930's as well as a few lighthearted works.

That's a high standard to set in the opera house, where singers and conductors in lighthearted works have a lot more on their minds than comic timing and sight gags.

Opera ★ Le Poème Harmonique (Wednesday and Sept. 14) This admirable French early-music group presents a semi-staged, candle-lit production that aims to evoke the streets and canals of 17th-century Venice during Carnival, with Monteverdi's haunting madrigals about love's torments and lighthearted works by Francesco Manelli.