Sentence examples for tender landing from inspiring English sources

ISTANBUL, Turkey — As we sat on the Breeza, the open aft deck of the Azamara Quest, we watched the shadow line of the sunset climb the sheer, volcanic cliff above Skala, the tender landing area on the island of Santorini in the southern Aegean.

WESTMINSTER CHOIR COLLEGE OF RIDER UNIVERSITY "Weill: Down in the Valley" and "Copland: The Tender Land".

The harmonic language is like a gloss on Bernstein, or tepid Copland (in his "Tender Land" mode).

Copland hoped that "The Tender Land" would be broadcast on television, but the networks took no interest.

At a glance "The Tender Land" should have been as endearing a piece of Americana as any of Copland's other middle-period works.

And though "The Tender Land" had been commissioned for NBC television, when Copland submitted his first version, in 1953, the network rejected it.

His later works include an opera, The Tender Land (1954); Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson (1950), for voice and piano; and the delightful Nonet (1960).

With "The Tender Land" almost completely overlooked, Copland's most conspicuous postwar statement was, instead, "Connotations," whose first performance took place in September, 1962.

Whenever Aaron Copland spoke of his one true opera, "The Tender Land," given its premiere in New York in 1954, he sounded rather defensive.

The last couple of weeks have brought gripping productions of two unsung operas of the fifties: Marc Blitzstein's "Regina and Aaron Coplandd's "The Tender Land".

But its subject this year is Copland, and the BARD SUMMERSCAPE tees it up beginning on Thursday, with Copland's rustic opera "THE TENDER LAND".