Sentence examples for staged song from inspiring English sources

He counts "Hydrogen Jukebox," for example, as an opera, but most people would characterize this collaboration with the poet Allen Ginsberg as a staged song cycle, of sorts.

Three nights after Monk finished her run at the Harvey, the singer, songwriter, and composer Gabriel Kahane arrived in the same space to present "The Ambassador," a staged song cycle that muses on fantasies and realities of Los Angeles.

At the heart of his endeavor is "Gravity Radio," a recent staged song cycle by Mr. Rouse, which receives its New York premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Tuesday night.

As part of its CULTUREMART 2012 series Here is presenting a double bill that includes a scene from "The Scarlet Ibis," with music by Stefan Weisman and a libretto by David Cote, along with "Science Fair," presented as a staged song cycle, by the composer and mezzo-soprano Hai-Ting Chinn.

The district's political-legal committee, which oversees the party's powerful security apparatus, staged song-and-dance shows.

It's a staged song-cycle written by Orlando Gough and Richard Chew and performed by The Shout, an incredible 16-piece acapella choir.

Trademark von Trier, one might say, harping on a weird waif's woes: but made idiotically pretentious by dim, tuneless, ineptly staged song-and-dance interludes, supposedly the girl's fantasies, and allegedly inspired by Jacques Demy's "Les demoiselles de Rochefort".After this long-expected aberration, the jury, like the festival, went east.

Musicals evoke a specific kind of joy, and nothing is as mesmerizing as being drawn into a masterfully staged song-and-dance number on the big screen: music videos have diminished that pleasure a bit by miniaturizing it and making it commonplace.

It's a far cry from the conventional state television variety program, which typically features booming announcers, staged songs and hundreds of synchronized dancers.

Gideon Irving starts off his solo evening of staged songs by wielding whimsy like a weapon, which may turn off theatregoers with little patience for self-consciously quirky singer-songwriters.

Shales was more positive regarding Lynch's performance, and concluded that: "Dramatic tension isn't exactly plentiful, but pleasingly staged songs and a general aura of retro ingenuousness come through, and seem awfully if fitfully refreshing".