Sentence examples for offending musicians from inspiring English sources
And he has rarely risked offending musicians.
Rehearsals had been particularly brutal, Mr. Dohnanyi directing stern attention to fundamentals (the tuning of individual sections, for one) and receiving not a little back talk from offended musicians.
And then, of course, because in our piece every section of the orchestra has jokes made at their expense, pretty much every time I've performed it there's been at least one offended musician.
The horns are playing off key and there are all sorts of strange devices there that offend musicians.
That assertion offended the musicians, since the notion of a "global decline" of opera was unsubstantiated by any hard statistics.
At the beginning of his career, he was physically attacked by fellow musicians offended at his departures from the norm.
His radical ideas had stirred furious controversy and made him a risky proposition for promoters – some critics and musicians, offended by his pitch-bending tone and cavalier attitude to harmony, went as far as to call him a charlatan.
But there had been frequent press reports in recent months that his autocratic manner had offended Berlin municipal officials, musicians of the self-governing orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle, who formally took over as the orchestra's principal conductor last month.
The reaction of the audience, from cheering to walk-outs, showed that Zimerman touched a nerve, both in potentially offending his Californian hosts, and in breaking the invisible wall that often separates classical musicians from their audiences.
It is not unusual for drug gangs in Mexico to kill or assault musicians, especially those who play so-called narcocorridos that glorify the criminal underworld and end up offending well-armed listeners.
