Sentence examples for play forte from inspiring English sources

And when we came to a forte, he said 'Monteux, that is a forte, play forte'.

This occurred especially in the echo effect of a soli passage played piano after a tutti passage played forte.

Her musical response is the opposite of slavish: on the rare occasions that a chord is played forte, her dancers stay still.

"Indeed, once, after a long passage that provided no place to take a breath, he concluded by trilling on sustained notes while the orchestra played forte," De Marco wrote.

And in fact, the carefully calibrated climactic moment in all three movements, among the only times Carter asks his orchestra to play "fff", forte-fortissimo (which occurs in a structurally similar place in the opening Partita and the central Adagio Tenebroso to the Allegro Scorrevole, shortly before the end) is in every case a 12-note, chromatically complete chord.

But, rather than play to her forte for impiety, she and an ensemble of virtuoso technicians have produced — despite the odd, postmodern wink — a sanitized, old-fashioned costume picture.

Lorne Michaels, the NBC television show's executive producer, said that where Mr. Forte played Mr. Bush as whiny and beleaguered, Mr. Sudeikis, below, is playing him as having "absolute confidence and buoyancy".

Reza said, "Lecoq played to my forte — a physical language that you are born with or not.

In comedy, Forte plays against his looks: he's the fruitloop behind the aw-shucks nice guy.

His first rare dramatic turn had in fact been in the little-seen Irish movie Run & Jump, in which Forte played an American doctor lodging with Maxine Peake's dysfunctional family.

Almost literally overnight, he had transformed an orchestra that for years had not been able to play quieter than mezzo forte into an ensemble of exquisite Mendelssohnian delicacy.