Tomorrow, the religious radio slot Thought for the Day will feature a vicar from Guildford saying "I often find myself singing along to the venerable tune 'Rebel Rebel'.
But unlike the Met's latter-day compiler, Jeremy Sams, Bach drew on his own works, especially secular cantatas, not music by numerous others (except for the venerable chorale tunes).
Also, the venerable JVM may be tuned for Java-native workloads, but the C2 server compiler within the Hotspot JVM comprises hundreds of thousands of lines of C++ code and assembly language.
For Radio 4, Elisabeth Mahoney tuned into the "venerable, occasionally stuffy, but undeniably brilliant Today Programme".
For decades, all the left's brass applauded the parade from that balcony; each band paused in turn to play a salutory tune from the venerable British playlist for military and brass band, or some select arrangement of its own, before marching to the playing fields for rallying speeches and enough refreshment to weigh the instruments heavy for the march home.
The band's full name is the New York Standards Quartet, and its speciality is making old tunes new – songs of Broadway and Hollywood, venerable pop ditties, old jazz warhorses – the more familiar the better.
Thirty percent of all televisions tuned into CBS and its longtime venerable news anchor, Walter Cronkite.
In the process it has become a kind of venerable national institution with its jauntily beckoning signature tune, its careful profiles and, most of all, its guiding voice and presenter, Melvyn Bragg.
The YouTubers have coaxed plenty of other sweet tunes from the president in the past, including venerable classics such as "Call Me Maybe," "Sexy and I Know It," and "Born This Way".
But "Passing Strange" just ain't a show tune kinda show, despite its arrival at a venerable Broadway theater where many a gotta-leave-this-town anthem has surely been sung.
It's hard to imagine a better jingle for this sandy strip of India's western coast, a venerable Catholic-Hindu enclave where American hippies came to turn on, tune in and drop out in the late 1960's, and where globe-trotting spiritual seekers, party kids, flag-wavers of the counterculture and refugees from the real world have fled ever since.
