Sentence examples for master singers from inspiring English sources

MASTER SINGERS OF WESTCHESTER "Christmas at Westmoreland," 2 30 and 5 p.m.. Westmoreland Sanctuary, 260 Chestnut Ridge Road, Bedford Corners.

Their second idea was to bring back a series of genuine Wagnerian master singers of the recent past in the cameos of the Nuremberg masters.

Many guild workmen and tradesmen of that day practiced a type of singing based on elaborate rules; to become meistersingers ("master singers"), they had to prove themselves in a contest.

The cast over all was admirable, especially the distinguished German baritone Michael Volle, who brought the requisite gravitas and poignant vulnerability to his portrayal of the wise widower Hans Sachs, a shoemaker and the most beloved member of the guild of master singers in the medieval German city of Nürnberg, where the story is set.

Though no master singer, Walther has a raw talent for extemporaneous poetry and song.

Sacred dance and music will be performed by the Whirling Dervishes of Damascus, the master singer Sheikh Hamza Shakkur and the Al-Kindi Ensemble.

The tenor Ben Heppner is back as Walther, the young knight who sets out to become a master singer only to win the hand of Eva.

The plot turns on the public promise by the master singer Pogner, a goldsmith, to award the hand of his beloved Eva, his only child, to the winner of the singing contest.

No longer is it the story of Walther von Stolzing as the dashing young knight whose raw musical gifts are tamed by the selfless cobbler and master singer, Hans Sachs: no longer nature made into art, modernity bowing to tradition and also the other way around, the opera's classic themes.

There are people out there who are just master singer-songwriter-entertainers, and these are people that I've always looked up to and studied.

Although Dixon described it in the latter terms, he added, "I wrote it as a barnyard song really, and some people even take it that way!" The lyrics are delivered in Howlin' Wolf's distinctive vocal style; music writer Bill Janovitz describes it as displaying a "master singer's attention to phrasing and note choice, milking out maximum emotion and nuance from the melody".