soloist

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Recent Examples of soloist First Presbyterian Church of Mount Dora, 222 W. Sixth Ave., is sponsoring a patriotic concert and ice cream social at 4 p.m. June 29, featuring soloists Kasey Cox, Janelle Woodward and Rick Vale, along with percussionist John Lowe and pianist Randy Frieling. Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2025 The weight of the sound—incorporating five vocal soloists, thirty choristers, and thirty-three instrumentalists—harks back to lumbering mid-twentieth-century accounts by Otto Klemperer and Hermann Scherchen, before the original-instrument movement dictated light textures and fleet tempos. Alex Ross, New Yorker, 23 June 2025 The orchestra was able to be a bit more gutsy under Friday’s soloist, Pacho Flores. Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2025 If rolling up the duo’s history — three No. 1s among nine entries — into his as a soloist, Michael would still rank first with a 39% rate of topping the Hot 100, just above Carey’s 38%. Gary Trust, Billboard, 20 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for soloist
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Noun
  • That approach is elevated by the stellar quartet of James’ spiritual flurries of guitar strumming, G. Love and Special Sauce's Jeffrey Clemens on drums, plus the work of Nashville Symphony percussionist and his longtime accompanist Adrian Marmolejo on bass.
    Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 28 June 2025
  • Anoushka’s accompanist that night was Zakir Hussain, one of the world’s foremost tabla drum players.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Local jazz pianist Jen Allen and her powerful sextet of vocalist Leala Cyr and Alejandra Sofia, guitarist Dan Liparini, bassist Matt Dwonszyk and drummer Jonathan Barber celebrate their new album with a release party at The Side Door in Old Lyme on July 19 at 7:30 p.m. $53-$64.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 12 July 2025
  • From great jazz vocalists like Dianne Reeves and legends like Branford Marsalis to emerging local and international talent and highly entertaining and flamboyant gigs from pianist Jeff Goldblum and hip hop legend Nas, the festival is a sheer delight for music lovers.
    Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • Perhaps the most systematic attempt to bring order to this chaos comes from Google DeepMind, which in July 2024 proposed a framework with five levels of AGI performance: emerging, competent, expert, virtuoso, and superhuman.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 8 July 2025
  • Even with Caitlin Clark once again sidelined, the Fever have been able to count on the virtuoso scoring talent of Kelsey Mitchell and the veteran expertise of Natasha Howard to help stabilize them.
    Devin Robertson, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2025
Noun
  • Style came mainly from soloists — especially the principal flutist Robert Langevin’s shapely contributions — and from the New York Philharmonic Chorus, directed by Malcolm J. Merriweather, which leaned into Ravel’s rich tonal colors.
    Anastasia Tsioulcas, New York Times, 19 May 2025
  • Live bands and Basque flutists pirouette around gigantes and bigheads, dancers with enormous papier-mâché heads of historical figures including kings, queens and Moors.
    Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Most touching were the moments of partnership between not just the three veteran maestros but the band.
    Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2025
  • Playwright Richard Greenberg was the maestro of shimmering verbal arias.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • The man — the organist and keytarist and vibes master — is Greazy Keyz.
    Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 16 June 2025
  • My husband, who is sixty-nine, is also retired but freelances as a pianist and organist five or six days a week.
    Liana Finck, New Yorker, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • Draped in all-white, the Colombian star was flanked by dancers and drummers repping the colors of his native country.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 14 July 2025
  • Phil Crews always wanted to be a drummer and percussionist.
    C. R. Walker, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2025

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