Sentence examples for substantial song from inspiring English sources

Much of the preset material is recent, the most substantial song being William Finn's "What More Can I Say?" There's plenty of room for comedy.

So you have to give her credit for taking time out to present a substantial song recital at Alice Tully Hall on Wednesday night, her New York recital debut.

They're catchy, but their effect is to direct attention toward the longer, more substantial songs.

But the more substantial songs are stark and genuinely philosophical; "End of Time" closes not only the album but everything else, too, with a frank consideration of the fragility of all existence ("Day breaks / like an egg"), in which Hitchcock proclaims his willingness to wrap things up for good ("Take me / I'm ready for the end of time").

But Mr. Del Tredici is a formidable pianist, and last Tuesday evening he played a program in which his complete works for solo piano made up the first half, with a substantial new song cycle after the intermission.

Axiom, a new-music ensemble of the Juilliard School, was celebrating Mr. Carter's 103rd birthday, a day late, with the premiere of "Three Explorations" (2011), a substantial new song cycle, built on stanzas from T. S. Eliot's "Four Quartets".

Her songs manage to be clever and touching in diverse contexts, and she has substantial vocal prowess.

The medley was preceded by three obscure but substantial theater songs composed by Todd Almond, the pianist who led her quartet.

Intriguingly, Bridges's substantial five-song encore veers away from his slim album, suggesting there is even more to come from this immensely likable talent.

Here are three substantial programs: two song cycles, "Poemes Pour Mi" and "Chants de Terre et de Ciel," performed by Elizabeth Farnum and Philip Bush; "Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jesus," played by Hakon Austbo, a Norwegian pianist; and "Visions de l'Amen," by Mr. Bush and Marilyn Nonken.

Granted, there aren't many self-identifying Americana radio stations per se – but the AMA has been compiling a database of stations across America whose playlists include a substantial number of songs from albums in the top 40 Americana albums chart.