violist

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Noun
  • Marcus Shelby is teaming with pianist Jason Moran for a set of concerts dedicated to the legendary Duke Ellington.
    Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2025
  • The show’s music comes from off-stage pianist Lex Leigh, who also functions as the music director, providing the arrangements rhythm and other tracking instrumentation as needed.
    Christopher Smith, Orange County Register, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • An elbow injury disrupted the career that Elaine Schmidt might have had as a high-level flutist.
    Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Among them: renowned British pianist John Tilbury, trumpeter Axel Dörner, saxophonist Evan Parker, and percussionist Steve Noble.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The health scare comes after Mantra of the Cosmos — which also includes Happy Mondays singer Shaun Ryder, percussionist Mark ‘Bez’ Berry and guitarist Andy Bell — performed Jan. 19 at Liverpool's Cavern Club, the same venue where The Beatles got their start.
    Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Attendees can join in the singing with guest choir conductor and organist Charles Frost, president of the Hymn Society of the United States and Canada.
    Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2025
  • While Hudson had joined the lineup as an organist, his responsibilities grew with the group’s sound to include the keyboard, accordion, woodwinds, and brass.
    Justin Curto, Vulture, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Former Beatles' drummer Ringo Starr is making a music switch from rock to country.
    Stephanie Giang-Paunon, Fox News, 26 Jan. 2025
  • My drummer Jay turned me onto Bob Marley and The Wailers in the ‘90s.
    Liza Lentini, SPIN, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Other honorees included jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, who played God Bless America at a State Department ceremony on Saturday night.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 8 Dec. 2024
  • One night in 1969, jazz trumpeter Al Hirt, who had opened a nightclub in Atlanta, coaxed Uecker up onstage.
    Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The song becomes the superstar’s fifth leader on the list, tying Taylor Swift for the second-most, and the most among soloists, since the survey began in September 2020.
    Gary Trust, Billboard, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Most of the other soloists and bands that keep their names on the weekly lists do so with one single, or perhaps a greatest hits compilation that never disappears.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
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“Violist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/violist. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.

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