Sentence examples for musical competition from inspiring English sources

Five Japanese music students attending the 12th Tchaikovsky musical competition nearby were attacked in the melee, said a duty officer at the Japanese Embassy in Moscow.

Meanwhile, musical competition between steel bands in Trinidad grew in intensity and frequently erupted into violence.

A correspondent whom Russia had sent to cover the contest asked whether the event had been a musical competition or a political one.

Page A4 IN RUSSIA, LONG-LIVED FAME Even 53 years after he won the Soviet Union's premier musical competition, Van Cliburn's arrival in Moscow draws a crowd bearing gifts of regard and displays of grand emotions.

That is the way Russians feel about Van Cliburn, the American pianist who in 1958, at the height of the cold war, won the Soviet Union's premier musical competition.

He then portrayed a music manager who guides a young Afghan singer to stardom on her country's version of the musical competition program American Idol in Rock the Kasbah (2015).

Contests of artistic skill, including music, are ancient; musical competitions were part of the 6th-century-bc Pythian Games at Delphi.

Mr. Kawakami, the author of several books on music, also began in 1966 the Yamaha Music Foundation, which organized musical competitions in Japan and abroad.

Regrettably, the growth of musical "competitions" has led to many programs that have forgotten this -- but music is the opposite of a zero-sum game.

He was, says Stephen Hough, a British pianist, the first victim of the age of musical competitions.

Stockhausen intended "Finalists" as an antidote to the chilly routine of musical competitions.