Sentence examples for natural composer from inspiring English sources

A close friend and associate of Copland and Bernstein, he is a more natural composer for the keyboard than either of them were, as a delightful new disk (on Naxos) by the pianist Scott Dunn proves.

This world-premiere recording, which came out earlier in the summer, confirms David Matthews (b.1943) as a natural composer for voices – here, the full-bodied, occasionally untamed Bach Choir – as well as a richly gifted orchestral colourist happy to find invention in tonality and tradition.

It is only natural that composers in the classical tradition who grew up in a world of pop would be inspired by and borrow from any style or genre: jazz, funk, rap, electronica.

Herrmann was therefore the natural choice as composer when Welles came to make his first film, Citizen Kane, which was to establish the composer's reputation as much as the director's.

It would be nice if there were a natural sympathy between composers and performers.

They are attractive, inventive works, but the symphony, with its dependence on established forms, was not the natural medium of a composer who sought to bring Romantic music to a freer form derived from literary, poetic, and pictorial ideas.

In its original conception, Mahler's third symphony was built on a sequence of natural images that the composer detailed in programmatic subtitles to the various movements (there were seven at first, though the last of these eventually became the finale of his fourth symphony).

One highlight of his third season is the annual Winter Festival, which explores how natural elements have inspired composers.

The students repeatedly learn that collaborating with a living composer is as natural a part of being a musician as performing works of the great masters.

"It is as natural as you would want any composer's music to be at any time".

Yet Shostakovich was also, as Pappano puts it, "a theatrical composer": he had a natural gift for the stage, and the ferocity, cruelty and compassion of Lady Macbeth are overwhelming in performance.