Sentence examples for spectacular account from inspiring English sources

Everything finally came together in a spectacular account of "The Rite of Spring".

After intermission he gave a spectacular account of Brahms's demanding "Handel Variations" that blended steely power and textural intricacy.

Historians of the left used to emphasise the role of slave revolts (as CLR James did in his spectacular account of the birth of Haiti, The Black Jacobins) and the move from a colonial sugar trade to industrial capitalism.

A spectacular account of the Piano Concerto No. 1 was all coiled intensity and electric release, with athleticism and finesse from the soloist, Olli Mustonen, and superb if slightly restrained work by the orchestra, whose low brasses sound more ferocious and imposing all the time.

He did something similar on Friday night in the third and final concert of the Chicago Symphony's series at Carnegie Hall with a spectacular account of Respighi's "Feste Romane" ("Roman Festivals"), a glittering, lushly orchestrated and unabashedly cinematic tone poem, completed in 1928.

Two recent recordings -- a spectacular account of Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" and an equally vivid reading of Monteverdi's "Orfeo," both on the Virgin label -- are enlivened by daring choices of tempo, ornamentation and orchestral color, as well as by dynamic and articulation touches that are Mahleresque in their detail and sweep.

One industry leader, Lernout & Hauspie, flamed out, in a spectacular accounting scandal.

A series of spectacular accounting failures exploded in Britain in the 1980's, and Sir David was chosen in 1990 to head the Accounting Standards Board, a new group with the task of overhauling Britain's rules.

The New York Times wrote that "As a play it is a feeble thing, hardly matching the spectacular public accounts of his amours ... for all of Mr. Barrymore's shenanigans and devastating wit, The Great Profile is more than a little pathetic.

The press turned up in droves, hoping to see a car crash of a movie unfold before their eyes: everyone was already primed after a spectacular on-set account of the film's travails in the New York Times.

Taxpayers might have thought that given their spectacular collapse and the accounting scandals preceding it these entities would disappear into the night.