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Conservatoire


Definition:

  • (n.) A public place of instruction in any special branch, esp. music and the arts. [See Conservatory, 3].

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Similarly its other services ITV2, ITV3 and ITV4 also have no room for the debate, fronted by STV’s political editor Bernard Ponsonby from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow.
  • (2) In the end, I studied composition at Birmingham Conservatoire.
  • (3) The two-hour debate will take place at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland , in Glasgow, in front of an audience of 350 members of the public.
  • (4) Pianist Liam Noble has a foot both in the traditional jazz world, and in the changing one, as a player and as a teacher at the Birmingham Conservatoire and Royal Academy of Music.
  • (5) The communique is endorsed by more than 400 arts, academic and scientific institutions and individuals, including the Creative Industries Federation, the British Museum, the Science Museum, the Tate, the National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Academy, the Royal Philharmonic Society , Rada, the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol and St Andrews, and – among others – Cox, Tristram Hunt, the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the cellist and principal of Birmingham Conservatoire, Julian Lloyd Webber.
  • (6) As the post was to take charge of chamber music at the Parma Conservatoire, he learned invaluable lessons about listening to other musicians and lost no time in familiarising his Italian students with scores by Schoenberg, Bartók and Stravinsky.
  • (7) Her parents, Caroline and Julian Pike, were opera singers (her father is now professor of vocal and operatic studies at the Birmingham Conservatoire) and she loved to watch them perform - "I spent quite a lot of time in rehearsal rooms or in the wings, looking at them being the stars.
  • (8) British schools of music face competition from European and US conservatoires that charge lower fees – or, like the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, offer full scholarships.
  • (9) She danced as a child too, getting into the Trinity Laban Conservatoire at eight: "I'll be very honest with you.
  • (10) Scott Rawlings, a 21-year-old pianist from the Conservatoire, said of Cable, "I know I like him.
  • (11) Theillaud began teaching at the Conservatoire d’Art Dramatique d’Orléans, where the teenage Cotillard enrolled to study acting.
  • (12) Sturgeon was seen shaking her head at the first minister's bizarre line of questioning about aliens as she watched the first Salmond v Alistair Darling TV debate live at Glasgow's Conservatoire.
  • (13) Music Royal Conservatoire of Scotland courses OMG's Cameras Everywhere is a free week of music video-making in London (29 July-4 August); Royal Conservatoire of Scotland kids' courses include a "junkyard jam", making music from scrap (from £35); and Youth Music Theatre has courses in Edinburgh and south-east England (£495).
  • (14) He auditioned for a place at the French Conservatoire d’Angers with Tchaikovsky’s Flight of the Bumblebee.
  • (15) Alejandro talks in private about this being one of the poorest corners of Europe, insisting: "And see how this is where the talent is – not only in the conservatoire.
  • (16) When US conductor Marin Alsop became the first female conductor of the Last Night of the Proms last year (for the first time in its 119 seasons) it caused a flurry of regressive comments – including those from Bruno Mantovani, head of the Paris Conservatoire, who said most women would find conducting too “physically demanding” .
  • (17) Education: St-Martyrs Canadiens Primary School; Joseph-François Perreault High School; Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique du Québec Productions: L'attaque quotidienne, 1979; Saturday Night Taxi '80; En Attendant '82; Circulations '84; The Dragons' Trilogy '85; Vinci '86; Polygraph '87; Tectonic Plates '88; Needles And Opium '91; Midsummer Night's Dream '92; Seven Streams Of The River Ota '94-96; Elsinore '96; Geometry Of Miracles, '99; The Far Side Of The Moon 2001.

Conservatory


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the quality of preserving from loss, decay, or injury.
  • (n.) That which preserves from injury.
  • (n.) A place for preserving anything from loss, decay, waste, or injury; particulary, a greenhouse for preserving exotic or tender plants.
  • (n.) A public place of instruction, designed to preserve and perfect the knowledge of some branch of science or art, esp. music.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The proposals had prompted an outcry among Tory backbenchers and were dubbed a "conservatory tax".
  • (2) The conservatory therapeutical means have limited indications, or results dependent on several parameters, and some methods require a special equipment.
  • (3) Grant Shapps has a great wheeze for getting to the top of any Google search and we're going to relax the planning laws to allow more conservatories … Clegg: Hello, Conference.
  • (4) Como Park Zoo and Conservatory came up with the idea in response to a common prank where people leave trick messages for friends from people named things like Don Key and Sally Mander, then including the phone number for the local zoo.
  • (5) "Had General Dostum gone to another ticket, my winning would have become theoretical," Ghani said in the conservatory of his understated home in west Kabul, shortly before the Helmand gathering.
  • (6) Like many Eurovision competitors, Inga and Anush are professionally trained; on this occasion their alma mater being the jazz-vocal department of the Komitas State Conservatory in Yerevan.
  • (7) In his mid-80s, in his conservatory at home in Essex, he summarised the order of his interests as "travelling, writing and growing lilies"; he travelled before he turned writer, beginning in the relatively incorruptible Spain of the early 1930s, and going on for more than 60 years to observe the ebb and flow of governments, the dissolution of indigenous tribal cultures and the activities of missionaries, bandits, profiteers and political scene-shifters.
  • (8) Bamboo, wooden mats, and discreetly placed artefacts dominate the interior, plus there's a long, sloping paved garden with a conservatory and a whiteboard for travellers to leave messages.
  • (9) Cerebral lateralization for music has been studied through a music-manual interference paradigm (tapping) in a group of young musicians (seven males and seven females) attending the 1st and 3rd intermediate grades of Udine's "J. Tomadini" State Conservatory of Music and in a group of graduated expert musicians or higher course students during the execution of three distinct tasks (singing notes, whistling a melody and singing a melody).
  • (10) The house in Turville Heath had acquired a conservatory, for Olivier to pot earwigs in the television version of Voyage.
  • (11) The vast majority of European conservatories offer tuition rates that are lower than current rates."
  • (12) It is a bit like someone constantly drawing down cash against their house, spending it on improvements and borrowing yet more on the basis that it could be sold for more, should someone fancy purchasing a 17-room mansion with an ugly side-return and triple-glazed conservatory.
  • (13) These days the food and the slick conservatory restaurant are a match for the views over this area of outstanding natural beauty.
  • (14) There is a small glass conservatory and garden where a cafe opens from March to October.
  • (15) On leaving school in 1974, Lepage applied for a place in the Quebec conservatory of music and drama.
  • (16) A further 16% of properties benefit from additional space through having a conservatory," Nationwide found.
  • (17) "A one-year holiday from the current rules on planning for a conservatory extension of up to eight metres into a garden does not represent an economic plan," he said.
  • (18) Recession of the inferior rectus in surface anaesthesia by 5% cocaine drops was performed in 8 patients with signs of hypotropia in the course of thyroid orbitopathia and with diplopia persisting after conservatory treatment and not corrected by prisms.
  • (19) Out of a total of 475 interventions for renal lithiasis, the author has performed only 15 partial nephrectomies, as compared with 118 total nephrectomies and 342 conservatory pyelotomies and nephrotomies.
  • (20) He had the house extended to add a conservatory at the back for a full-sized snooker table, and spent the rest of the day playing snooker or watching television.

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