Sentence examples for mechanical playing from inspiring English sources
Biggs initially backed Harrison's American Classical Organ, but in time he shifted his allegiance to instruments based on the historical principles of articulate voicing and mechanical playing action -- "built the way God intended organs to be built!" Biggs's recordings on historical organs in Europe and America established a new national aesthetic.
Growing up in Inverness along the beautiful and remote Marin County coast, Velloza was usually either tinkering with something mechanical, playing sports or plotting how to "go over the hill," as he and Borodic referred to larger communities such as Petaluma.
Yet it wasn't mechanical playing: the music sang, swayed, danced.
The American Federation of Musicians took out newspaper advertisements protesting the replacement of live musicians with mechanical playing devices.
The surface morphology and the surface and bulk physical properties, including mechanical, play important roles in influencing a fiber's frictional properties and through it the latter's performance in processing, handling, and end use.
Other than that, composers have to fall back on parody, as in the very amusing setting of the mechanicals' play in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, or the recent Jerry Springer: The Opera.
Shakespeare was called upon in this contest: the "rude mechanicals' " play from A Midsummer Night's Dream was turned into a caricature of Italian opera in Richard Leveridge's A Comick Masque of Pyramus and Thisbe (1716).
Even this director can't do anything with the mechanicals' play except conjure a few good laughs, but otherwise in what can be one of Britten's least involving operas, what happens on stage is totally compelling, and in the end deeply, unforgettably distressing.
It's hard to imagine those depths in Andrew Bovell's deft but mechanical play.
His mother decided that for each hour of mechanical play there be one hour of real piano practice.
(Neil Genzlinger) 'FAULT LINES' Stephen Belber's enjoyable if mechanical play about old friends is filled with clever banter, twists and plenty of machismo (1 30).
