Quotes About Overture

The symphony had its origin not in instrumental forms like the concerto grosso, as one might have expected, but in the overture of early Italian opera. The overture, or sinfonia, as it was called, as perfected by Alessandro Scarlatti consisted of three parts: fast-slow-fast, thus presaging the three movements of the classical symphony.

The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music.

allowing the Word and Spirit of Christ to enter into one's depths and begin to transform each component of the human being to Christlikeness-under the direction of a regenerate will and with constant overtures of grace from God (Willard 2002:42).

When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini's 'The Thieving Magpie,' which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta.

Light takes darkness vanish and worlds reappear. Light opens each day with a blaring overture, then throws its wands to earth and casts diamonds on lakes and oceans. Each night, lights tricks make the stars seem alive.

Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture,

Thank you, but we respectfully decline your overture, being more enjoyably occupied at present.

would not, could not, make a significant overture. My pride depended on this. She would have needed to make the effort, enough to be openly vulnerable; she would have had to risk my revenge. I like to think I wouldn't have rebuffed her, but it's possible that I would have. It's possible that I would have felt the need to exercise the power if I'd had it. But she didn't grant me the opportunity

Beethoven's "Leonore Overture.

Who hurt you once, so far beyond repair / that you would greet each overture with curling lip? The lines from Ruth Zardo's poem exploded in his head. In his chest. Me, he realized with horror. I did.

It was also the prelude

The William Tell Overture," complete with cannons and fireworks.