Sentence examples for skillful composer from inspiring English sources

History tells us that he was a skillful composer, a star pianist and a dominant pedagogue.

But it proves that a skillful composer can be accessible and ingenious at the same time.

Still, "Three Tales" is the work of an imaginative and skillful composer who cares about clarity of texture and never just piles on repetitive riffs, droning chants and spinning figurations.

What ambitious and skillful young composer wouldn't jump at the chance to write for a group whose professionalism and proficiency are amplified by that indefinable X factor, charisma?

In the 1940's and 50's, Mr. Berger won acclaim as a skillful Neo-Classical composer.

What we savored on Thursday was the composer's skillful imitative counterpoint and unfailing equilibrium of design, not his connections to ruined cities and suffering citizenry.

By the time the craze swept through Vienna near the end of the century, harmonie arrangements of the latest operas and ballets had become all the rage and a lucrative source of income for industrious composers and skillful bandsmen.

The War Requiem, Opus 66 (first performed, 1962), of the British composer Benjamin Britten makes skillful and impressive use of liturgical texts but also contains secular poetry by Wilfred Owen, killed in World War I.

As a composer Bernstein made skillful use of diverse elements ranging from biblical themes, as in the Symphony No. 1 (1942; also called Jeremiah) and the Chichester Psalms (1965); to jazz rhythms, as in the Symphony No. 2 (1949; The Age of Anxiety), after a poem by W.H. Auden; to Jewish liturgical themes, as in the Symphony No. 3 (1963; Kaddish).

The result: a powerful ode to doomed love and a skillful presentation of an American composer's magnificent opus.

And on Friday the series ends with performances by JENNIFER WALSHE, a spirited and imaginative Irish composer and vocalist, and by Mr. Hallett, a skillful tenor.