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Recent Examples of symphonist
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.
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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
During much of his lifetime, he was generally considered the greatest symphonist after Brahms.
—Tim Page, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2021
But for essentially all of the '90s and '00s, Reznor was the driving force between one of the most consistently successful acts in alternative, industrial rock symphonists Nine Inch Nails.
—Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 11 Apr. 2019
The masterstroke is Zimmer’s introduction of a quotation from the Enigma Variations of Edward Elgar — the symphonist whose music most fully embodies the British soul — with a slow burn that still amounted to playing with fire.
—David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 17 July 2017
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
During much of his lifetime, he was generally considered the greatest symphonist after Brahms.
—Tim Page, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2021
But for essentially all of the '90s and '00s, Reznor was the driving force between one of the most consistently successful acts in alternative, industrial rock symphonists Nine Inch Nails.
—Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 11 Apr. 2019
The masterstroke is Zimmer’s introduction of a quotation from the Enigma Variations of Edward Elgar — the symphonist whose music most fully embodies the British soul — with a slow burn that still amounted to playing with fire.
—David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 17 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for symphonist
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With a five-day weather window, the Alaskan soloist opted to take a 19-hour nap at his first glacier bivy on Slovak Direct.—
Maya Silver,
Outside,
5 Oct. 2025
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After the performance, continue the celebration at a courtyard dessert reception and mingle with conductor Nathan Aspinall, soloist Jon Nakamatsu and Symphony San Jose musicians.—
Anne Gelhaus,
Mercury News,
28 Sep. 2025
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Palamides, as a physical-comedy virtuoso, loves mess—there’s a splash zone near the front, with audience members wearing plastic ponchos.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
17 Oct. 2025
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D’Angelo was raised in a deeply religious Pentecostal family and got his musical start in the church, becoming a virtuoso at several instruments.—
Andrew R. Chow,
Time,
14 Oct. 2025
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There are unanswered overtures from the choir’s pianist Horner (Robert Emms), a soft, vulnerable young man whose conscientious-objector status renders him a fellow outsider.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
19 Oct. 2025
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All evening, Wyeth had been listening to an album of nocturnes by the composer John Field, performed by the pianist Benjamin Frith.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Oct. 2025
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The teacher, recitalist, and accompanist won first place in the Union League Civic & Arts Foundation’s 2009 classical piano competition.—
Myrna Petlicki,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Sep. 2025
Noun
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David is the maestro on all of that.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
18 Oct. 2025
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Against West Virginia late in the regular season, the Cougars moved off man-to-man to slow the Mountaineers’ on-ball maestro, guard Javon Small.—
Jim Root,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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Tina Fey will join the celebrity chef in the season premiere, followed by Emmy- and Tony-winning actress Christine Baranski, violinist Itzhak Perlman and fashion designer Daniel Roseberry.—
Erin Lassner,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Oct. 2025
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Joining them are two-time Academy Award winner Hans Zimmer, who will compose the score alongside violinist Aleksey Igudesman.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
16 Oct. 2025
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Vermut is a natural accompanist to such an event.—
Joseph Hernandez,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
21 Oct. 2025
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Her quartet includes pianist Alan Pasqua, a superlative accompanist.—
Andrew Gilbert,
Mercury News,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Symphonist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/symphonist. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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