Sentence examples for musical embodiment from inspiring English sources

The Laine-Dankworth collaboration, by virtue of the compromises it entails, might be described as the musical embodiment of a long and successful marriage.

Their rivals, meanwhile, wet boy band One True Voice, became the immediate musical embodiment of the dodo - except with fewer fans.

The composition, considered a musical embodiment of grief, will be performed by the Westchester Philharmonic as part of the county's candlelight ceremony at Kensico Dam Plaza, in Valhalla, commemorating the 10th anniversary of the attacks.

The song is that musical embodiment of bittersweet chemical comedown when you still feel divine but your heart skips a beat and you don't always quite catch your breath".

The driving force behind Asylum Records, the musical embodiment of the "Me Decade" (writer Tom Wolfe's characterization of the 1970s), was New York City-born David Geffen, who nurtured most of the major figures in the wave of singer-songwriters who followed Bob Dylan's lead.

His singular combination of strength and sensitivity, dignity and self-discipline, made him the musical embodiment of the "soul force" that Martin Luther King, Jr., extolled in his epic "I Have a Dream" speech as the African-American counterweight to generations of racist oppression.

He sees the importance in separating some musical embodiments from others, so to avoid pureeing music into a potentially muddled listening experience something that even music festivals are a culprit of.

Thus, the previous progression of the genre from tragedy to tragicomedy to romantic tragedy continued to a literary-musical embodiment of what Nietzsche called "tragic dithyrambs".

We think of VW as the quintessential embodiment of musical Britishness, but that's not how he was always heard at the time, and there's a far greater continental influence in his music than we're prone to hear.

For many music-lovers, Haitink is the living embodiment of Dutch musical culture: he was made principal conductor of Amsterdam's Concertgebouw Orchestra in his early 30s, a position he held for nearly 30 years.

You could hear it as one of the great embodiments of musical post-modernism, a defiant and even joyous two fingers to the denizens of stylistic purity who had held sway, in the West at least, during the immediate post-war years.