Sentence examples for overture for a from inspiring English sources

It also made a secret overture for a "grand bargain" to end tensions with Washington.

Because it feels like a fanfare, almost like an overture for a musical.

It seemed like the overture for a new yet quintessentially American campaign.

Mosley has hinted that "Blue Light" is the overture for a much larger science-fiction epic, but no other material from that epic has surfaced.

More recent additions to his oeuvre include the symphonic "Overture for a United Europe" and the "Brazilian Triptych," written while he was Ambassador to the Organization of American States.

Just ask musicians such as Susanna Mälkki, Simone Young, Julia Jones or Jessica Cottis (Dame Jenni's mentor before she takes on the BBC Philharmonic in Bizet's Carmen overture for a Woman's Hour special on 21 June): all of them, to a conductor, musicians who want their musicianship to speak before their gender.

TOMORROW, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and its new music director, James Levine, will present a program at Carnegie Hall that includes new works by two of the best-known American composers of our day: John Harbison's "Darkbloom: Overture for an Imagined Opera" and Charles Wuorinen's Fourth Piano Concerto.

In elections in 1974, Edward Heath's Conservatives lost their majority and the smaller Liberal Party rebuffed his overtures for a coalition.

By 1971, Leonid Brezhnev, now established as the new Soviet leader, was ready to welcome American overtures for a variety of reasons.

Then came President Obama's declaration that if Iran did not respond to his overtures for a negotiated end to its production of nuclear fuel by the end of 2009, he would quickly add a "pressure track" to his diplomacy.

Although that failed, the PD under then-leader Pier Luigi Bersani refused to accept Berlusconi's overtures for a grand coalition along the lines of the government now being sought by Napolitano and Letta.