Example sentences for: stravinsky

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

  • If Wagner's operas can be excerpted for concert performance, and Stravinsky's ballet scores have a life of their own, why can't the soundtrack jettison its celluloid ballast and soar?

  • Not only did it promote freedom "more than any statesman or soldier did" by creating CNN, faxes, and e-mail, but furthermore, Einstein's theory of "relativity paved the way for a new relativism in morality, arts and politics," influencing James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, and others.

  • Entertainment Weekly 's David Browne calls the album "a sonic smorgasbord in which the Beasties gorge themselves with reckless abandon," sampling everything from Stravinsky to Tito Puente.

  • Advancing example after example, measuring reputations--those of composers Roger Sessions and Elliott Carter, say, against those of Stravinsky and Schoenberg--Steiner insists that America has produced very little that can stand up to the intellectual or artistic achievements of Europe.

  • Craft set himself up as Stravinsky's amanuensis, and his apercus are well worth reading; but when he mislabels the tile of Philip Larkin's Required Writing as Required Reading , he kills Larkin's playful title.


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