Sentence examples for settings of text from inspiring English sources

Another of the ensemble's composer-performers, Kate Soper, sang her own "cipher," an exotic score in which her vocal settings of text fragments from Wittgenstein, Freud, Jenny Holzer, Michael Drayton and Sara Teasdale closely matched, in timbre and gesture, a brash violin line played energetically by Joshua Modney.

Walt Whitman's poems inspired him to write the symphony, and Whitman's use of free verse became appreciated at a time where fluidity of structure was becoming more attractive than traditional, metrical settings of text.

Of the 12 songs in this work, 11 are settings of texts by Bertolt Brecht.

Citkowitz's Five Songs From "Chamber Music" (1930), settings of texts by James Joyce, are a revelation.

The second part is devoted to Seven Last Words, austere settings of texts compiled from the four gospels by James MacMillan.

In a special show, the tenor Marcello Giordani sings settings of texts by such poets as D'Annunzio and Boito.

The program ended with the New York premiere of Ronald Perera's "earthsongs," melodic, lighthearted settings of texts by E. E. Cummings.

John Harbison's "Mirabai Songs" are settings of texts by a 16th-century Indian mystical poet about her erotic passion for Krishna.

After this, the Yale Camerata, a choir of about 65 voices, gave a sensitive performance of Three Choral Songs, mystical yet harmonically astringent settings of texts on themes of pain, comfort and war by the 20th-century Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai.

This collection contains deeply felt and very personal settings of texts that are, for the most part, of a moral or philosophical nature.

Even the composer's most odious-sounding commissions, like a 1937 cantata celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution that featured musical settings of texts by Stalin, Marx and Lenin, are not what they seem.