Sentence examples for musical challenge from inspiring English sources

"Lagrime di San Pietro" (Tears of St. Peter), the composition by the late Renaissance composer Orlando di Lasso, has always presented a musical challenge: It is a musically merciless exploration of the disciple Peter's betrayal of Jesus.

The music could be called intermediate-level in that each piece presents a straightforward musical challenge.

But give him a musical challenge or an intricate dance phrase and he becomes adult, stimulated.

Beyond covering Mr. Joel's songs, the young musicians were also looking for a musical challenge.

"For me it was a musical challenge, and I didn't care if it was going to succeed," he said.

The stimulating environment and the guidance of Neem Karoli Baba led the newly dubbed Krishna Das to a new musical challenge.

Composers of more recent times have composed études that explore technical and musical challenges particular to contemporary music.

But the Shostakovich symphony presents psychological as well as musical challenges.

Now he is "almost fearless" about facing new musical challenges, he said.

His songwriting poses and solves musical challenges, like how to make odd meters strut like a samba.

We chose musical challenges that would play to the orchestras' strengths, while also challenging them to go one step further.