Sentence examples for straightforward composer from inspiring English sources

Diamond was a complicated man but a straightforward composer, and his best work combines a rock-solid technique based in the music of Bach and Stravinsky with a direct and openhearted American mood.

At the most, he has given us the best survey we have of Italian opera around 1900. Mary Jane Phillips-Matz's "Puccini" is a more modest venture, a straightforward life of the composer without detailed treatment of his music.

Part 2, the composer's most straightforward approach to a text, is a ruminative and emotionally charged aria for soprano (the radiant Susan Narucki), who relates the mystical visions of a 13th-century prophet, Hadewijch.

"Eighty-One," a piece by Mr. Carter dating to his tenure with Miles Davis (who shares a composer credit), conveyed this straightforward cohesion.

In a recent essay on his Web site Mr. Kahane argued that composers are, perhaps cynically, calling straightforward pop songs indie classical works.

But it was in the second half of his life that Mr. Motian found himself as a composer and bandleader, with work that could be counterintuitive or straightforward, runic or crowd-pleasing.

Even a seemingly straightforward and potentially middle-of-the-road album of orchestral music presents challenges, said Rob Mathes, a composer and arranger who produced "Symphonicities" with Sting.

(Chinen) Tango Meets Jazz Festival (Friday through Sunday) The overlap between American jazz and tango provides a straightforward premise for this annual visit by the Argentine pianist Pablo Ziegler, a protégé of the peerless tango composer Astor Piazzolla.

(Chinen) Tango Meets Jazz Festival (Thursday through Dec. 4) The overlap between American jazz and tango provides a straightforward premise for this annual visit by the Argentine pianist Pablo Ziegler, a protégé of the peerless tango composer Astor Piazzolla.

Also composer.

Perfectly straightforward.