Sentence examples for repertory standard from inspiring English sources

Opera ★ Dell'Arte Opera Ensemble (Friday through Sunday) This scrappy company matches a repertory standard with something a little rarer for its summer season: Bizet's "Carmen" on Saturday and Poulenc's "Dialogues des Carmélites" on Friday and Sunday.

The book sold more than half a million copies, and Burnett's income was increased by her dramatized version, which quickly became a repertory standard on the order of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

But both weeks of the company's recent Tchaikovsky celebration had too many wrong notes; and on Tuesday the season's non-Tchaikovsky third week began with woodwind blips in the Philip Glass score for another repertory standard, Jerome Robbins's "Glass Pieces".

The productions, even of repertory standards, are searching.

The concerto was part of a program of repertory standards by Slavic composers.

Respighi, who also signed the manifesto, was the only member of the Generation of 1880 whose works became repertory standards.

As is generally the case with Bargemusic's concerts of repertory standards, this one featured dependably moderate takes on the music.

In two concerts of repertory standards, this appealing orchestra seemed to know what was on its conductor's mind and also to like him personally.

The two worlds created by Balanchine in "Episodes" and "Vienna Waltzes," repertory standards that opened and closed the evening program, could not be more different.

Many classical and operatic works that are now repertory standards were glumly received at their premieres because of substandard performances, bafflement at audacious musical gestures or simply the audience's inability to appreciate the worth of a new piece immediately.

The tunes were 1950's repertory standards with a few originals, and in the rhythm section were some of the best young jazz musicians in the city: the pianist Marc Cary, the bassist John Sullivan and the drummer Rodney Green.