soloist

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Recent Examples of soloist The Black Crowes Double its Career Total While Page is new to the Top Hard Rock Albums list as a soloist, this latest debut also benefits The Black Crowes. Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025 And Rosé Lisa and Rosé now sit tied for the most appearances among female soloists from the K-pop world on the Adult Pop Airplay chart — but there are two acts ahead of them. Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025 This feat ties him with Drake for the most weeks spent tripling up in the top five among soloists. Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 18 Mar. 2025 The actor and musician will release his debut album Happy Birthday on June 6 as his first collection of music as a soloist following stints in the bands Calpurnia and the Aubreys. Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for soloist
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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Staten is good at getting in his own way, though, so Quinn ‒ a part-time bar owner, part-time lavender farmer and part-time concert pianist, because why not? ‒ is pushed into the arms of Davis (Eoin Macken), Staten's brother-in-law.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2025
  • The stars include Staten Kirkland (Josh Duhamel), the owner of Double K Ranch who is struggling after the death of his wife and son, and Quinn O’Grady (Minka Kelly), a former concert pianist who returns to her hometown to run Gracie’s, the local dance hall and bar.
    Francesca Gariano, People.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • From there, the brothers rope in a boozy harmonica virtuoso named Delta Slim (Delroy Lindo), who only accepts the gig after the brothers agree to pay him in Irish beer.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Throughout, he’s depicted as an anxious man with big feelings, a musical virtuoso whose shame, self-esteem and addiction issues were spawned as a young child bearing witness to domestic disputes.
    Derek Scancarelli, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Many of those songs and others are in the musical (a booklet in the Playbill introduces each one, with illustrations by the flutist Hery Paz), along with most of those musicians and singers.
    Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Ayers began to gain widespread recognition for his collaboration with flutist Herbie Mann.
    Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 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
  • Cesc was a maestro with the ball, giving the final pass.
    Andy Mitten, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The film directed by Napoleon Dynamite maestro Jared Hess amassed an amazing $301 million at the global box office, surpassing the second spot holder (Snow White) by $285 million.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The console, where the organist sits at the keyboards, is typically all the audience can see.
    Heather Kathryn Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
  • His father was a church organist who taught in Lutheran elementary schools, and Marty attended a Lutheran prep school.
    Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The asterisk in that is that the group did do a short tour in 2021-22 — but with the famous Blondie drummer Clem Burke sitting in for Schock, who had to sit out gigs due to thumb surgery.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 10 Apr. 2025
  • This song, there’s no drummer—the alienation of it always was fascinating.
    Laura Snapes, Pitchfork, 8 Apr. 2025

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