Sentence examples for practicing composer from inspiring English sources

As a practicing composer, Thomson was maddened most of all by the degree to which concert programs had devolved into a fixed canon, which he famously named the "Fifty Pieces".

As a practicing composer, I was struck as well as offended by Richard Taruskin's characterization of "musicians who have not experienced... the necessity of greater consonance" as "useless" and "short of the needs of their time" ["North (Europe) by Northwest (America)," April 18].

Hardly new, this electroacoustic technique practiced by composer Maja S.K. Ratkje was developed in the 1940s by the French composer Pierre Schaeffer.

Recycling old pieces for new purposes is a perfectly professional activity practiced by composers from Bach to Boulez.

"Intermittences" was just one highlight of an enjoyably cerebral program, loosely organized around the theme of counterpoint as practiced by composers spanning six centuries.

Although the composer is a practicing Catholic, the Nazis identified him as a Jew -- "how could any man with a name like Israel Levis be anything but a Jew?" they asked -- and sent him away to Buchenwald.

Pianist Lucy Parham is practiced at presenting composers' lives in words and music with the aid of actors, and Debussy is her latest.

During the 1950's, classical composers leaning toward serialism were intent on practicing rigorous, comprehensive control in their music.

They may have chosen the composer and had a hand in raising the commissioning fees and, at the very least, have devoted hours to practicing it.

In practice, though, composers tended to limit female roles to a range that fits sopranos and mezzos alike.

'BAROQUE REWORKED' Players of the Orchestra of St . Lukes examine — and extend — the common Baroque practice of composers rewriting their own works and those of others.