Sentence examples for musical reflection from inspiring English sources

Jazz is more than a musical reflection of America -- it is the embodiment in music of the quintessentially American idea of free and talented and diverse individuals working, playing, frequently fighting, but most of all improvising together to come up with something beautiful and great.

In the program notes, the composer, who was born in 1954, said the piece was a musical reflection on America "as seen though my rear view mirror".

"In this sense it has been described as a musical reflection of the everyday and ever-engrossing human drama of the individual lost in, emerging from, and pitted against the multitude".

As it follows his tug-of-war between two ways of life, one brutal, the other refined, the movie stirs up a delicious mixture of Alfred Hitchcock-suspensespense, hard-boiled action and exquisite musical reflection.

The mighty music of Shostakovich is well along to achieving immortality on purely artistic terms, even as, to paraphrase the tribute of his friend Mstislav Rostropovich, he is the musical reflection of the soul of a troubled century.

As a result, perhaps, his best-known work, with the indie band the Magnetic Fields, feels aurally recessive; the minimal instrumentals are Kurt Weill-like in their dissonance and syncopation, and in their pauses between notes — the white space of musical reflection.

Mr. Byrne is the author of "How Music Works," a thick volume of musical reflections that was available, in a huge stack of autographed copies, in the foyer outside the hall.

"The Dharma at Big Sur" is the composer's musical reflections of the collective experience of being Californian.

In the latter book he spoke of finding musical reflections of his literary and historical ideas in bold compositions and strong performances.

The Waterworks season, which opens Oct. 24 and runs through early December, includes work commissioned for and inspired by the Gatehouse, including Roger Guenveur Smith's performance piece "Who Killed Bob Marley?"; Tania León's musical tribute "Reflections"; and Bill T. Jones's dance-music-theater piece "Chapel/Chapter".

When the musicians raise their bows, Mr. Worby said, "it will be a purely musical moment of reflection".