Sentence examples for renowned composer from inspiring English sources

That serene egotism lay at the heart of an extraordinary career that made him a living jazz legend, renowned composer and celebrated bandleader.

Its next concert is devoted to a single work by the increasingly renowned composer John Luther Adams — "songbirdsongs," for a scrum of piccolo players and percussionists.

Míkis Theodorakis, renowned composer and iconic figure in modern Greek history, daubed a Greek flag in the blood of those who fell.

Judith Weir, renowned composer and Master of the Queen's Music, also supported Ms McCabe's petition and will now be involved in Edexcel's collation of female composers for the new syllabus.

And also our present prime minister, who is very happy to authorise state funerals for sporting commentators, and was asked after the death of Peter Sculthorpe, an internationally renowned composer, would he be interested perhaps in a state funeral for Sculthorpe?

The degree recipients are paleontologist Meemann Chang from Beijing University; former Chairman of the University of Chicago Board of Trustees James S. Crown; renowned composer Sofia Gubaidulina; and mathematician Robert Langlands from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ.

Great and small-from Valentin Grimm, a struggling clarinetist, to Richard Strauss, renowned composer-are examined by Kater, sometimes in intimate detail, and the lives and decisions of Nazi Germany's professional musicians are presented.

He expanded the guitar and lute repertories by commissioning works from renowned composers, making transcriptions and reviving pieces that had been forgotten for centuries.

Acuff-Rose was supported by many briefs, including those from the Songwriters Guildd, the entertainer Michael Jackson, who owns the rights to many of the Beatles' songs, and the estates of a number of renowned composers, including Leonard Bernstein and George and Ira Gershwin.

Georg Philipp Telemann, one of Germany's most renowned composers, toyed with Leipzig's town councilors about the position but was evidently angling for a better deal in Hamburg, which he got.

Mr. Mauceri added that many of Hollywood's most renowned composers, including Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Max Steiner and Franz Waxman were talented European refugees with impeccable conservatory credentials, but simply lacked the talent for self-promotion.