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Recent Examples of soloist
Plus, John extends the longest span of top 40 Hot 100 appearances for a soloist excluding holiday fare to 54 years and two weeks.
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Gary Trust, Billboard, 30 Dec. 2024
The work itself entered the public domain five years ago, but the nearly nine-minute-long recording released later in 1924, featuring Gershwin himself as the piano soloist, is now available for public re-use.
—Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Dec. 2024
Guest soloist Ray Chen will also join for Samuel Barber’s violin concerto.
—Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2024
The jam rock musician made a name for himself first with the Grateful Dead and then as a soloist later on.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
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Gary Trust, Billboard, 30 Dec. 2024
The work itself entered the public domain five years ago, but the nearly nine-minute-long recording released later in 1924, featuring Gershwin himself as the piano soloist, is now available for public re-use.
—Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Dec. 2024
Guest soloist Ray Chen will also join for Samuel Barber’s violin concerto.
—Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2024
The jam rock musician made a name for himself first with the Grateful Dead and then as a soloist later on.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for soloist
Noun
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The series is organized by McDaniel, a veteran Broadway music director and accompanist who also oversees the Cabaret & Performance conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
4 Dec. 2024
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The arrangements are stripped-down, but their furious energy remains intact as Mr. Hough all but assaults his piano keys, often dragged back from the emotional edge (or a spiraling monologue) by his accompanist on bass, Sue Goldberg.—
Brett Sokol,
New York Times,
15 Aug. 2024
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The jazz pianist, who had a lifelong passion for playing music, discovered a vibrant community of skilled musicians who shared his enthusiasm for collaboration and pushing the boundaries of the genre.—
J.M. Banks,
Kansas City Star,
11 Jan. 2025
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On November 14, 2024, French-Lebanese pianist and composer Omar Harfouch made history in the Vatican Apostolic Library, one of the most sacred repositories of human knowledge.—
Chris Gallagher,
USA TODAY,
10 Jan. 2025
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In today's job market, choosing between being a virtuoso or polymath is like choosing between a chef's knife and a Swiss Army knife - one perfectly crafted for a specific purpose, the other ready for anything.—
Ann Kirschner,
Forbes,
23 Dec. 2024
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Zakir Hussain, virtuoso of the tabla instrument and a towering figure in Indian classical music, died on Dec. 15 of chronic lung disease, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, at a hospital in San Francisco.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
16 Dec. 2024
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An elbow injury disrupted the career that Elaine Schmidt might have had as a high-level flutist.—
Jim Higgins,
Journal Sentinel,
1 Jan. 2025
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Anchoring the horn section is saxophonist/flutist Mitch Frohman, a founding member of the SHO who like Hernández established himself on New York’s Latin music scene during the heyday of salsa dura in the mid-‘70s.—
Andrew Gilbert,
The Mercury News,
17 Dec. 2024
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Before that, a preconcert panel of Price scholars and current CSO composer-in-residence Jessie Montgomery discussed the symphonist’s remarkable life and even more remarkable music.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
6 May 2022
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A decade after basing a whole festival on Bruckner and minimalist master John Adams, Franz Welser-Most Thursday night at Severance Music Center juxtaposed the grand Austrian symphonist with Arnold Schoenberg, the father of serialism.—
Zachary Lewis,
cleveland,
25 Feb. 2022
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While mass-market tequilas and margaritas dominated the global scene for centuries, Mexico's true tequila maestros quietly refined their creations, waiting for the day the rest of the world recognized what tequila could be.—
Hudson Lindenberger,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
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Here Now, and Perfect from music video maestro Millicent Hailes.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
9 Jan. 2025
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Join in the singing of beloved hymns and anthems with guest choir conductor and organist Charles Frost.—
News Release,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Jan. 2025
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Photos of Bill wearing his home run crown and others of him posing with ballpark organist Nancy Faust still generate smiles to this day.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
5 Dec. 2024
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The friend said that Moore’s brother-in-law is a musician, who has spent the past 20 years as a touring drummer.—
Martha Ross,
The Mercury News,
10 Jan. 2025
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Perhaps that’s why Tango in the Night is the rare late ’80s blockbuster with a real human touch in its arrangements, at a time when other classic rock drummers and bassists were being sidelined in the studio by drum machines and synthesizers.—
Al Shipley,
SPIN,
9 Jan. 2025
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