Sentence examples for musical competitions from inspiring English sources

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.

As a result, Chua's daughters get straight As and have won a series of musical competitions.

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

Earlier games staged often absurd artistic and musical competitions alongside the sporting ones.

Pythian Games, in ancient Greece, various athletic and musical competitions held in honour of Apollo, chiefly those at Delphi.

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

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.

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.

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.