Sentence examples for work to be played from inspiring English sources

After all, great popular composers such as Richard Rodgers expected their work to be played with impeccable style and profound understanding by the world's best musicians.

Bach wouldn't have expected the work to be played from beginning to end in concert, because in his day there simply weren't concerts for keyboard performers at which to play it.

As an unspoken reciprocation of their award, the University of Breslau had anticipated that Brahms, one of the greatest living composers (albeit one who had not attended college), would write a suitable new work to be played at the award ceremony.

He prepared a selection of piano works to be played with the left hand alone.

And perhaps it's not too much to expect these works to be played from memory.

"Notes on the War: The Piano Protests" bluntly indicated that the works to be played were commissioned in response to the continuing conflict in Iraq.

If the program is not exactly adventurous, all the works to be played are winning pieces: Mozart's Serenade in C minor for Winds; Kodaly's Serenade for Two Violins and Viola; Strauss's Serenade in E flat for Winds; and Dvorak's Serenade in D minor for Winds, Cello and Double Bass.

And, while there are examples of composers who were sticklers for their works to be played within the precise limits implied by the written notations, there are countless other examples of great composers who encouraged their students to go their own way – including Chopin and Liszt – and sometimes to make changes even to the notes as written.

Pretty sure my dad is too busy, you know, working, to be playing video games.

Mr. Jarvi presided over it all, and in the style of a jazz bandleader he introduced soloists and, on occasion, the works about to be played.

Its putative subject is Bryce Canyon in Utah, but this 12-part, richly populated instrumental work was commissioned to be played at Lincoln Center, surrounded by the skyscrapers he detested.