They have a classical background and sing ghazals in the good old classical style.

Both music and dancing integrate the blues and jazz into a classical background here.

At the same time, they realized that a significant portion of their students and prospective students demanded a classical background.

"And a lot of it has to do with the fact that John does have a very extensive classical background."

This classical background gave him the ability to engage different music genres authentically.

Of course, he still utilizes his classical background and says, "I would not trade it for anything."

It is regarded as part of an a priori given classical background with a well defined value.

It speaks of the classical background that I've had.

It was influenced by my roots and my classical background.

True, those are cleverly contrived and often depend on a strong classical background.