Sentence examples for solemn opening from inspiring English sources

At the solemn opening of the States General at Versailles, Talleyrand attracted immediate attention and soon acquired great influence.

Indeed, the winds and brass had trouble coming in together during the solemn opening chords of Mozart's Masonic Funeral Music, which began the program.

In no time Mr. Ax banished thoughts of winter as he played the stately, solemn opening chords of Chopin's Polonaise-Fantaisie, an elusive late work, more fantasy than polonaise.

It's the kind of wry sentiment you'd associate more with Robbie, but the arrangement is undeniably Barlow at his most McCartneyesque, slipping smoothly from the solemn opening to a chipper, thumbs-aloft celebration of a "requiem with all my friends".

In a decidedly solemn opening to "Saturday Night Live," last night, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani paid tribute to the city's emergency workers and those killed on Sept. 11, saying "our heroes met the worst of humanity with the best of humanity".

Ohlsson's beautifully proportioned account of the Piano Sonata No. 8 ("Pathétique") seemed a harbinger of 19th century Romanticism from its solemn opening page.

The stern white clapboard world of rural Protestantism is palpably evoked in the solemn, diatonically dissonant opening chords of the song, "At the River", and in the use of artless Shaker melody in "Appalachian Spring".

When the scrolls are removed for religious services, the congregation stands, and a solemn ceremony accompanies the opening and closing of the ark doors.

Ashkenazy has this piece in his blood and the solemn and sustained fugato opening, followed by a frenzied allegro molto, showed conductor and players in compelling rapport.

The ark is reached by steps and is commonly placed so that the worshiper facing it also "faces Jerusalem". When the scrolls are removed for religious services, the congregation stands, and a solemn ceremony accompanies the opening and closing of the ark doors.

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