It was an effort for him to fuse the classical style with the popular idioms of the time.

The Army tradition in music is to use the popular idiom of the day to reach people for Jesus.

What artist these days doesn't make use of popular or grass-roots idioms?

As might be expected from this composer, the music swims surely between popular and art idioms.

The popular idiom 'to blow hot and cold' is associated with it.

Did you expect her to come up with a current popular British idiom instead of an American one, for some bizarre reason?

His style is an amalgamation of classical music influenced by popular idioms.

Saami wrote his slokas in popular idioms for the masses.

As a composer, he produced a number of pieces in the classical, jazz and popular idioms.

He has written in the "modern classical" and "popular" idioms.