Sentence examples for marginal composer from inspiring English sources

Those who don't know the music of Lou Harrison, whose 85th birthday is belatedly being celebrated in the Juilliard School's Focus Festival, which began on Friday and runs until next Friday, or those who think that he is a marginal composer best known for building exotic instruments and exploring Eastern musical traditions, should consider this story.

Eastman, who died in 1990, was a Minimalist apart, an African American gay activist, a marginal composer better known as a singer and pianist who is being rediscovered.

Harrison is also benefiting from the compensatory effects of the sort of belated exposure that has brought other "marginal" composers of the century, like Leos Janacek and Morton Feldman, into the limelight.

Surveys of twentieth-century music labelled the composer a marginal figure in the central drama of the march toward atonality and other intellectual landmarks.

He is attracted to marginal figures and lost souls, like the composer Cornelius Cardew, whose flirtation with Maoism almost wrecked his reputation.

I recently read an essay by a gifted student composer who has become frustrated at the culturally marginal nature of his profession.

Their work is no more marginal than most other currents of contemporary concert music, and composers like Steve Reich have had considerable success with electronic pieces.

Quality work by dozens of other musicians, bands and composers from around the world has also surfaced here after finding only a marginal audience.

Marginal manifestations of culture should not be ignored, he explained: in the 19th century, Telemann was considered a far greater composer than Bach; by the same token, in 200 years, Picasso may be thought inferior to Coca Cola commercials.

Marginal Christians.

Also composer.