English horn
Example Sentences
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Pedro R. Díaz played the haunting English horn solos—in costume in the tunnel—embodying the lifelong mourning that torments Tristan.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026
The English horn issued a plaintive, simple melody, as if trying to evoke older memories of a nearly forgotten time.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2025
He largely taught himself to play the oboe and English horn, using a book that showed the fingerings.
From New York Times • May 12, 2023
Kudos to them all, particularly to the eloquent English horn of Stefan Farkas, whose solo passages added so much to the atmosphere of longing and heartbreak.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 17, 2022
She talked instead things that did not interest either her or him—the general principles of Wagner's music, or some technicality, whether she should insist on the shepherd's song being played on the English horn.
From Evelyn Innes by Moore, George (George Augustus)
