Sentence examples for old classical from inspiring English sources

I remember attending, around 1990, a concert of the Philadelphia Orchestra at which the conductor Leonard Slatkin, a champion of American composers, tested his theory of the ideal program: it would contain a contemporary work, a twentieth-century classic, and a good old classical warhorse.

Cannell also rails against the "mental barriers" of her old classical music culture.

It also hints that life will go on even if monuments of the old classical empire falter.

In the 1930s, academic economics was in turmoil, with the old classical theories discredited by the realities of the Depression, but with little to take their place.

Three years later, Seymour Solomon opened a new company, Omega Classics, and in 1990 he bought back from Welk Vanguard's old classical catalog.

JENNIFER DUNNING EGLEVSKY BALLET: 'THE NUThisCKER' This production is a traditional one, choreographed by Ali Pourfarrok, who directs the Eglevsky, Long Island's 43-year old classical ballet troupe.

The piano part is large and florid, referring back to the old Classical-era designation of duo-sonatas as piano solos with string obligato.

He from the purest centuries-old classical tradition, she from the rule-breaking Judson Dance Theater of the 1960's.

Jeanne (Anne Teyssèdre), a prim young high-school philosophy teacher, falls into a fast friendship with Natacha (Florence Darel), a gifted eighteen-year-old classical pianist.

Like many modern-dance choreographers, she has often sought to explore new movement rather than to accept ballet's 350-year-old classical vocabulary as a given.

And this month, in Washington, a 12-year-old classical pianist named Alfonso Candra played "Canon Rock" for a small crowd at the Indonesian Embassy.