Sentence examples for repertory items from inspiring English sources

Even as the hot gleam of the highway gave way to desolate roads and fenced-off military zones, Adams's characteristic musical gestures — the rich-hued harmonies and bopping rhythms that have made repertory items of "Harmonielehre," "Nixon in China," and "Short Ride in a Fast Machine" — disintegrated into broken clockwork rhythms, acid harmonies, and electronic noise.

Even as the hot gleam of the highway gave way to desolate roads and fenced-off military zones, Adams's characteristic musical gestures the rich-hued harmonies and bopping rhythms that have made repertory items of "Harmonielehre," "Nixon in China," and "Short Ride in a Fast Machine"—disintegrated into broken clockwork rhythms, acid harmonies, and electronic noise.

Love enjoys incorporating both traditional repertory items and less familiar contemporary pieces in his programs.

"La Création du Monde" (1923) has been a repertory item practically since its birth.

He may well have a point about Edouard Lalo's work from 1888, a stirring Franco-Wagnerian mélange that was an established repertory item for decades after its première.

Prokofiev's B flat Piano Concerto for the left hand is not exactly a repertory item, and Boris Berman was there to play the solos, joined by the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale, led by Shinik Hahm.

In any event, "Die Frau," once dismissed as a neo-Wagnerian fiasco, has become a repertory item on European stages, and its return to the Met was greeted with some of the most thunderous ovations that have been heard in the house in a while.

Come to think of it, neither did Douglas Moore, the chairman of Columbia's music department from 1940 to 1962: a mild-mannered composer as sweet-tempered and sentimental as his unashamedly tune-filled hit opera "The Ballad of Baby Doe," already a repertory item at the New York City Opera and making a star out of the young soprano Beverly Sills.

It was a view probably inspired, at least in part, by legendary tales of the beauteous divas (many of them, for some reason, Americans) who stamped their personalities on the title role in the days when "Thaïs" was a repertory item.

Beyond a steady flow of conventional, standard-repertory items, the company has ventured increasingly into unexamined corners of the global canon.

In addition to varied items from the repertory, the company's final programs this season also include a performance of "Overgrown Path," Jiri Kylian's tribute to Tudor, on Sunday.