Example sentences for: bashmet

How can you use “bashmet” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • At his Philharmonic appearance during his most recent visit, he performed a viola concerto by the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke, who not only wrote the piece for him but was kind enough to derive a theme cabalistically from the letters in Bashmet's name.

  • Bashmet ought to be an unlikely source of spectacular and forceful effects, due to the humble nature of his instrument.

  • I'm not sure that, in the course of his performance with the Philharmonic, Bashmet didn't once again lose control of . Yet by the end I was nearly sobbing myself.

  • Yet when Bashmet comes out onto the stage, wiping his Prince Valiant locks off his face and holding his non-god by its helpless neck, like a dead rabbit, you feel, even before he starts to play, a vibration in the air, ever so slightly, as if gusting from the air conditioner.

  • And, all the while, Yuri Bashmet goes threading his way across the foreground, a lonely man with an eerie and haunting sound, sometimes quietly shrieking, sometimes singing lyrically--a heartbreaking figure, heartbreakingly courageous--until, by the end, he seems to be quietly sobbing.


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