Sentence examples for native composer from inspiring English sources

J.C.C. OF METROPOLITAN "Lincoln Center's Reel to Real, What's Opera, Doc?" featuring Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd in Chuck Jones's opera cartoon classics, with Jed Distler, West Orange native composer and pianist.

There was a similarly varied range of musical styles, from Juan de Araujo's polychoral settings, reminiscent of Gabrieli, to native composer Francisco Hernandéz's beautiful, haunting motet, a piece that stood comparison with one of the great Spanish works of the era, Alonso Lobo's Versa est in luctum.

BIRDLAND 315 W. 44th St. (212-581-3080) — Aug. 27-30: The lauded Brazilian singer Leny Andrade toasts her native composers as she celebrates fifty years of bossa nova.

At an early stage, Shadle explains, native composers found themselves in an impossible double bind: "If works were too 'American,' they were not serious enough; if they were too 'European,' they were not original enough".

By the end of the 18th century, there was a small body of comic operas based on Russian librettos, some by native composers and others by foreign maestri di cappella (Italian: "choirmasters").

The occasion was of historic significance, for, in reviewing the concert, the critic Vladimir Stasov proudly proclaimed that henceforth Russia, too, had its own "mighty little heap" (moguchaya kuchka) of native composers.

At 6 30 p.m., the Farmington Valley Symphony brings the romance of Italy to the lawn at Miss Porter's School, with overtures by two native composers, Rossini and Verdi, plus impressions penned by two celebrated visitors, "Capriccio Italien" by Tchaikovsky and the "Italian Symphony" by Mendelssohn.

The first priority upon which the RMS acted was to expose the music of native composers to the public.

September 17, 1884 Elmira, New York April 8, 1920 New York City, New York Charles Griffes, in full Charles Tomlinson Griffes (born Sept. 17, 1884, Elmira, N.Y., U.S. died April 8 , 1920 New York City), first native U.S. composer to write Impressionist music.

Among the generation born about 1525, native Italian composers became increasingly prominent without eclipsing Lasso, Philippe de Monte, and Giaches de Wert.

Hymns by William Billings, considered the nation's first native-born composer, pave the wave to a group of 19th-century spirituals and then works of Aaron Copland.