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Sentence Examples First, a musical overture with a philharmonic orchestra numbering around 60 musicians, and then 36 dancers, les Rexgirls, came on stage. Six principal string players had left their places in the orchestra pit and now took their seats on the stage for the overture. My only qualm on this album is the rather boxy sound of this overture, but this is a minor misgiving when compared to the joys on offer. Virtually all wives had one, and probably many, opportunities to comply with or reject an unwanted sexual overture. This is most evident in Sunset Song, the swelling overture to the Quair, the words rolling out like a pastoral symphony. The sinfonia, a type of overture, does not necessarily represent the subject of the oratorio. As a result, the government's purely economic reforms lacked boldness after this dramatic overture. Even with a woman who clearly loves him, he is rude and brusque, abruptly rejecting any sort of overture that may lead to self-disclosure. As in all those movies, the demonstration is an overture to how that newly introduced power will explode narrative, characters, bodies. The overture is similar to its more illustrious counterpart from Tchiakovsky and it also has bells in its final moments. At a running time of around four minutes, the overture is segmented into four themes. A familiar Rossini overture presented that composer's usual challenges, which were tackled with precision. Less than half way through the overture I know without a shadow of a doubt that I wanted to be a professional oboist. Musically, I have to say that the performance was quite thrilling, right from the opening bars of the overture. There is no trace in their solo sections of the violinistic broken-chord figuration found in the overture. For openers, Beethoven's overture to Coriolanus was just perfect, its very tempestuousness reflecting the Great One's own character. Following his spurned overture, he was drinking at a juke joint with Sonny Boy Williamson. In a symphonic poem or a concert overture with a title or a programme, it is the latter that specifies the locus. The conductor and the instrumentalists establish a French style in the overture. He spent more time with the orchestra, with the overture in the beginning of the show than the whole block of the show. Show More Sentences Before the great Roeland bell started chiming, smaller bells rattled a melodic overture that had been transported onto a wooden playing drum. He won't speak to the press unless an overture of fanned notes cues him. Columbia is also given high marks for acceding to Lean's original wishes that the overture, entr'acte, and exit music be presented with nothing but a blank screen. American officials said they were uncertain how to respond to the overture by Kim Yong Nam, the country's nominal head of state. For by the usually decorous standards of international economic diplomacy the overture to this summit has been disharmonious indeed. The U. S. will find it alone in the international community for nixing the peace overture from Pyongyang and starting war. These two sections of the overture, the first frenetic and the second ponderous, lead us inexorably to the 'piece de resistance', the Fuga. If a conclusion is to be drawn from what has been said above, it should not be a curtain call but, on the contrary, an overture to the future. Contrary to the normal customs regarding incidental music at that time the choruses of the ancient tragedy, with an overture to precede the play. The overture consists of a brief Andante followed by a fleet, high-spirited Presto in sonata form. It has shaped the lives of hundreds of millions, but that is only an introduction, an overture to the music of God which will fill eternity. After the overture in Berlin, many of the young participants spontaneously decided to travel together. Who can forget his delight in playing the piano or conducting a Mozart overture with his beloved orchestra? It was this overture to George Brown that set the wheels of the Confederation project in motion. An official overture to the traffickers, the decree and its terms represented a major concession on the part of the government. The Supreme Leader has accused the U. S. of supporting it, including in his reply to Mr. Obama's recent overture to Iran. The overture is a magnificent summing-up of the trials and tribulations, the twists and turns in the plot, and a splendid taster for the delights to come. One could find parts of a symphony and an overture of German or Austrian origin along with Italian opera selections, quadrilles, and virtuoso items. The body ranges between the sexes, the pose extremely lascivious while the lustfully mounting tones of the overture are played slowly, to be savoured. The rarely heard Hussite overture opens the programme, a powerful piece laced with Bohemian rhythms and melodies, taking its name from the Hussite warriors of Czech folklore. Show More Sentences Euripides characteristically opens his plays with a markedly non-naturalistic 'prologue', in the form of a monologue, which acts as a kind of separate overture. The playing of the woodwind section at the beginning of the overture was well balanced and finely tuned, revealing the experience and ability of the players. Like Wagner's overture, this movement is a Romantic ode to Classical counterpoint, and one at times seems to hear actual Wagner themes peeking out from behind the curtain. In 1822 Beethoven composed The Consecration of the House overture, which also bears the influence of Handel. Whether Lukashenko's move constitutes an overture to the West remains to be seen, but we should be ready to respond with our own incentives to recognise and reward Belarus as appropriate. Germaine had been invited to write a comic opera in collaboration with Henri Jeanson, and she gave to Monteux the overture that she had already prepared for this opera. The operetta failed, but the overture soon took on a life on its own, and has become one of the most popular orchestral works of the twentieth century. Hoboys provided a grim overture to the dumb show in Hamlet. The Finnish Presidency of the Council will be making the forestry strategy one of its core priorities, and now, in June, we are playing the overture to it. The court of the Golden Horde returned the princes as a peace overture to the Yuan Dynasty in 1282 and induced Kaidu to release Kublai's general. Mr. Speaker, we appreciate the overture to continue the dialogue. This type of cantata overture was unexceptional in Leipzig. The opening Sinfony is composed in E minor for strings, and is Handel's first use in oratorio of the French overture form. Chorley, was not produced and is now lost, except for the overture and two songs from the work, which were separately published. The Hebrides, also known as Fingal's Cave, is a famous overture written by Felix Mendelssohn inspired by his visit to Staffa. The German High Command expected an overture of peace from the French, but the new republic refused to surrender. In the 1850s the concert overture began to be supplanted by the symphonic poem. Jarvi is at his best in the Rossini-like Rienzi overture played for all it's worth. Instead he began bravely with the Mastersingers overture, broad in this slowspeaking acoustic. The orchestra prepared the audience for a memorable night with a beautiful rendition of Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger overture. Show More Sentences Donizetti, you see, begins the overture with an elegantly Italianised version of God Save The Queen. Encouragingly, it seems the group was actually rewarded for this overture. On the same program, French conductor Marc Piollet will lead the Orchestra in the overture to Weber's Der Freischütz and the essential Concerto for Orchestra by Béla Bartók. Contrary to the symphony, which is derived from the operatic overture, the string quartet is not the result of the evolution of one precise early music genre. Despite this diplomatic overture by the Eritrean authorities, our attempts to send a fact-finding mission to Eritrea have not received a positive response from the Government. In 1867, his overture Marmion was premiered by the Philharmonic Society. On 6 October Hitler made a public peace overture to Britain and France, but said that the future of Poland was to be determined exclusively by Germany and the Soviet Union. The opening section is clearly written in the French overture style, leading into a lively Allegro ma non troppo where imitative, fanfare-like entries abound. The overture by Felix Mendelssohn was always used throughout this period. The next phase is the amarg, or sung poetry, and then ammussu, a danced overture, tammust, an energetic song, aberdag, a dance, and finally the rhythmically swift tabbayt. The programme had begun with the overture to the 12-year-old Mozart's Bastien und Bastienne, something and nothing, though its triadic opening anticipates that of the Eroica. The government has made a significant peace overture by opening the door to negotiation. Nothing came of this last-ditch overture and Lehman went under in the fall of 2008, very nearly taking the financialised infrastructure of global capitalism with it. In the hands of another director, this bold romantic overture might have jarred but it works beautifully here, illuminated by Sarandon's warm and unself-conscious portrayal. Examples from Classical Literature They were in their places just a few moments before the overture was played. Not much of a symphonist, as I have said, Moussorgsky did not even take the trouble to write an overture and some entr'actes. Yet everywhere was hope and geniality and by-your-leave as if weddings were in the wind and not the overture to death. Upon this overture the first classis struck out their lines, and drew mostly by the portrait of Geneva. The motif occurred in the middle of the overture, directly after the czardas. A form of opera overture consisting of a slow introduction, followed by a fugue or fugato, and concluding with a slow movement. The overture is, according to established custom, in three movements, the two first being in two divisions. He worked at an overture which had originated out of the motifs of Bermann's opera. It was the overture to this work which caused so much difficulty to Corelli. Arlt's overture was to have its first hearing, the week before Thanksgiving. He has nothing but the piano concerto, an overture he wrote in Germany, and some songs. As with the overture, Rossini did not attempt to recompose this number either. Yet finally these yielded to blandishment and overture, and signed, on October 28, a treaty at Medicine Lodge. Ye donnert ne'er-do-weel, do you come to a decent, 'sponsible man like me, wi' sic a Cyprian overture as that? There was an ominous, clanging overture to the charge when the shafts of the bayonets rattled upon the rifle barrels. Half a mile away, the regimental band was playing the overture to the Sing-song, for the men had been told that Bobby was out of danger. Done with relish by the Lekkers, it was a perfect overture to Ligeti's Six Bagatelles which is a masterwork that was masterfully played. But it was only the beginning of the overture, and she sat down laughing. One of these is the symphonic poem, and the other the programme overture. Find more words! 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