Sentence examples for star composer from inspiring English sources

After the music ebbed away, and the crowd cheered, Mr. Reich enthusiastically hugged each of the performers, a rock star composer among devoted champions of his music.

The concert, conducted by Andrew Parrott, opened the Baroque band's ninth season with a focus on Jean-Baptiste Lully, the star composer of the court of Louis XIV.

October 11 2010 Jeffrey Milarsky's excellent Juilliard ensemble gives a fuller portrait of this week's star composer at the Philhamonic, performing his fearsomely difficult "Joy" in a concert that begins with Stravinsky's "Symphonies of Wind Instruments" and Xenakis's "Okho".

Strauss's ambivalent portrait of himself as the star composer of Wilhelmine Germany has become prevalent and iconic in his own anniversary year, though this was the finest performance of the piece I've heard for some time.

With production costs for new works so extreme — the seven performances of "Elmer Gantry" will cost its presenters $700,000 — and success so unlikely, few companies will risk a commission on anyone short of a star composer like Wynton Marsalis or John Corigliano.

This year he and the band topped the Rising Star, Big Band; Rising Star, Arranger and Rising Star, Composer categories in the DownBeat Critics' Poll and won two Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards.

One of the bona-fide star composers of the nineteen-eighties, Lang, a kind of downtown minimalist-conceptualist, has always been a curious mixture of the professional's professional and the professional enfant terrible.

Praised for his "acute ear" (New York Times) and "stubborn nose" (New Yorker) composer and pianist Timo Andres offers a new song cycle specifically created for fellow rising-star composers and multi-instrumentalists Gabriel Kahane, Ted Hearne, Becca Stevens and Nathan Koci.

The rock-star composers Bryce Dessner, of the National, and Jonny Greenwood, of Radiohead, also contribute, proving that a Ph.D. is hardly a sine qua non for a healthy compositional career.

Years before Mia and Sebastian danced among the stars, composers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul were already being hailed as the heirs to Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Years before Mia and Sebastian danced among the stars, composers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul were already being hailed as the heirs to Rodgers and Hammerstein.