Nobody was admired more than so- called free soloists: visionaries who ascended alone, without rope or hardware. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Many famous improvisors, when interviewed, mention how useful it was to them to learn from other soloists by transcribing their solos in this way. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I was matching the steps of my soloist wife at the other end of the world. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Selby chose the songs, arranged the harmonies, selected the soloists, and conducted the performance. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The winning vocalist and instrumentalist would be invited to appear as soloists with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra during its popular summer season at the stadium. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

She also became the first black vocalist to appear as a soloist with the Philharmonic Society at Philadelphia’s prestigious Academy of Music. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

She performed as a soloist with many of the nation’s leading orchestras and became immensely popular with radio audiences, appearing regularly on The Bell Telephone Hour, a classical program broadcast weekly over the NBC network. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

He was a big, good man with a soft baritone, who ruled with easy tact a choir of repressed soloists, and who had an unerring memory for the favorite hymns of District Superintendents. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But large choruses, soloists and orchestra were bread and butter to Bach in his Passions, Handel in his oratorios, Mozart in his Requiem and Haydn in his grand choral works. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

We went to a contest on the mainland the spring we were thirteen and might have won except that when the judges realized our chief soloist was not yet in high school, we were disqualified. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the first and last repetition, the melody is played or sung, and soloists improvise during the other repetitions. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

In the first group were the stars, the students with the potential to become world-class soloists. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

In Handel’s London, the vogue for adult soloist castrati was short-lived, and Italian-style opera itself soon came up against stiff competition in the shape of what we would today call jukebox musicals. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Think of a favorite pop or gospel tune that, near the end, has the soloist "ad libbing" while the back-up singers repeat the refrain. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

If the opening exchanges of Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D sounded a little exposed, Zehetmair soon entered the trance-like state in which he made the dual role of conductor and soloist seem effortless. Hall?/Zehetmair - review 2011-01-21T18:03:20Z

The soloists, especially Mr. Settles and Mr. Finlayson, made powerful impressions without upsetting the collective impact of the group. Music Review: Tomas Fujiwara and the Hook Up at Jazz Gallery 2010-04-30T20:54:00Z

Despite the title, the concerto is also written for percussion and double basses; nonetheless, it’s a gambit of orchestration, pitting a string soloist against an ensemble of much louder instruments. Kurt Weill’s Path From Europe to Broadway Was a Straight Line 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

The soloists on these three evenings brought personal flair, if not the last word in technique, to their showpieces. Mostly Mozart’s Repertoire Broadens With Its Audience 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z

Scarcely less impressive than the soloists were the orchestras’ concertmasters, each entrusted with those extended, amorous solos that weave in and out of Strauss’s “The Hero’s Companion.” Juilliard and the Manhattan School of Music Play Strauss’s ‘Ein Heldenleben’ 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

Yet, we all pay the same amount of dues, and soloists who aren’t American pay even more, because of massive visa fees and reinstatement fees. Met Opera deal allow solo singer fees cut by up to 12.7% 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

The chorus and soloists were repositioned in the balconies and main floor of the auditorium, necessitating an awkward break in the music, but it constituted one of Mr. Marthaler’s better moments. Opera Review: Zurich Opera's 'Guillaume Tell' Is Tripped Up by Gimmickry 2010-11-23T12:40:00Z

There is no programme to this piece, so such a suggestion should not be taken literally, only as an attempt to convey the relationship between soloist and ensemble. The Merry Widow; Britten Sinfonia 2010-10-23T23:06:00Z

Folksy and ingratiating, the music aptly showcased the quartet’s warm, secure sound and expressive unity, and revealed Ms. Bodner in particular as an especially soulful soloist. Music Review: Practice Gets Group Back to Carnegie 2010-10-25T22:58:00Z

True, there isn't a long, glitzy roster of visiting orchestras from around the world, but from the opening weekend onwards there's a regular supply of first-rate soloists, important premieres and imaginatively devised programmes. This week's new live music 2011-07-08T23:07:53Z

A decade later, the piece had morphed into a more traditional ballet score for large orchestra, retaining three songs for a female soloist. Dudamel plants seeds for the future with De Falla and flamenco 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

The soprano Hei-Kyung Hong was the soloist in both works: an unlikely choice for the Strauss especially, with her sweet but smallish voice. Music Review: At Tanglewood, Mahler and Strauss, and Yo-Yo Ma 2010-08-02T20:57:00Z

But before that, as the soloist perched on the plank as if on a dock, gazing into the distance, I was reminded of something else. Review: At Met Breuer, Dancers Try to Be Like Life, Too 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

They do not necessarily involve the guest vocal soloists, who, though sometimes excellent, can be uneven. Music Review: Exploring Variations in a Christmastime Favorite 2010-12-08T23:09:00Z

The three vocal soloists and the choral singers are pushed to the absolute limits of their registers — and beyond, in some cases. SSO delivers ‘Carmina’ in all its splendor 2014-04-04T19:06:01Z

She became a soloist in 2001 and remained in that rank for 14 years. The Poetic Justice of Stella Abrera’s Juliet 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

In early 2020, he was invited to participate in a class at City Ballet and was offered a position there as a soloist, beginning in the fall of 2020. ‘Princes Can Be Asian, Too’: A Dancer Breaks Barriers in Ballet 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

Lutoslawski’s aleatoric techniques result in colorful sound clouds and riotous sonic landscapes, punctuated by the soloist’s dramatic lines, which Mr. Campbell played with flair throughout. Music Review: A Composer Who Rolled the Dice 2011-01-30T22:07:57Z

“Step 4.2,” a duet for Ms. Asherie and James Colter, went deeper in addressing how a man and a woman — and two soloists — might dance together. ‘Unreal Hip-Hop,’ at Jacob’s Pillow, With Decadancetheatre 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

A skilled soloist as well as a section leader, he was occasionally featured on camera. Snooky Young, a Big Band Trumpeter, Is Dead at 92 2011-05-19T01:05:17Z

The vocal soloists, mostly drawn from the choir, were also fine. ?Madama Butterfly,? Monteverdi?s 1610 Vespers and Gerald Finley 2010-03-21T23:42:00Z

It was a massive enterprise, involving the BBC Symphony Orchestra, two choirs, percussionists whom I placed round the audience at the exit doors, two soloists, tapes and electronics. Letter: Directing Jonathan Harvey 2012-12-17T13:07:32Z

Kanneh-Mason, who currently studies at London’s Royal Academy of Music, rose to international fame last summer as a soloist at the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Incandescent talent of cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and conductor Ruth Reinhardt shine with Seattle Symphony 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

From the moment they started singing together – with Patty, the prettiest and blondest of the three, acting as their lead singer and soloist – they were a success. Patty Andrews, 1918-2013 2013-01-31T05:19:34Z

“All the musicians in the orchestra,” he said in 2007, offering his highest praise to a group that included several noted soloists and sometimes entire string quartets, “they are listening to each other.” To the Conductor Claudio Abbado, the Orchestra Was a Collective 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

Besides an audience-chorus of several thousand voices, a proficient orchestra, vocal soloists and conductor are required, and there are hall rental, stagehand and other fees. No 'hallelujahs' this Christmas unless 'Messiah' gets funding 2011-05-11T17:44:12Z

"What we were searching for was an unknown soloist at a level to perform a concerto with the symphony on its flagship series," said Bob Moir, PSO's senior vice president of artistic planning. Orchestra contest finds no winner 2012-06-12T09:12:25Z

The soloist was the electrifying young Russian pianist, Daniil Trifonov, who made his sensational recital debut at Walt Disney Concert Hall a month ago. Kent Nagano and Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal prove gripping in Santa Barbara 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z

This hampered the performance of Ravel's G major piano concerto in particular, even with such a finely focused soloist as Imogen Cooper; much of its boulevardier wit and nightclub-band naughtiness went missing. Prom 4: Orchestra of the RAM & The Juilliard School – review 2012-07-17T10:22:17Z

Like Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20, also in D minor, the Brahms begins with a long orchestral introduction before the soloist’s softly singing entrance — passion turning into a plea. Review: Igor Levit Arrives at the Philharmonic, at Last 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z

He performed as recorder soloist with his orchestra in its early days but stopped after his 50th birthday. Frans Brüggen, Pioneer in Early Music, Dies at 79 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

“I’m having a good time,” he said after a later arduous day of two rehearsals, the first with orchestra, chorus and soloists all in place. Critic?s Notebook: More Drama for an Opera, Not All of It From the Singers 2011-04-14T22:02:56Z

Not all the eight vocal soloists managed to project the Latin and German convincingly, inevitably negating some of their impact, but Erin Wall and Christopher Maltman were outstanding. CBSO/Nelsons 2010-09-20T21:15:00Z

Classically trained from an early age — he studied in his hometown, at Pittsburgh Ballet Theater School — Gilmer spent six seasons with Cincinnati Ballet, where he attained the rank of soloist. Ailey’s New Secret Weapon: The Heroically Unmannered James Gilmer 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

The soloists will be joined by the Christ Universal Temple Vocal Ensemble, led by Fred Nelson III, and backed by the CJE. From Mahalia tribute to Penn & Teller's pianist, a rich weekend in Chicago jazz 2011-05-19T11:40:00Z

Such groups sound very good, but when I hear them play with a soloist, I often come away feeling that something is missing. Perspective | What does a conductor do, anyway? A music critic lays it out. 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

Little coaxing was needed to enlist Joshua Bell as soloist in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. National Youth Orchestra Braces for Its Debut 2013-07-10T21:45:41Z

The soloist, the soprano Mellissa Hughes, combined classical poise with torch-song emotionalism, confirming her status as one of New York’s freshest, most compelling interpreters. Music Review: Brooklyn Philharmonic and Brooklyn Youth Chorus at Roulette 2012-03-26T22:28:24Z

Sure, Carnegie Hall might have commissioned a work for the occasion, or performed something as ambitious as that Berlioz piece: a 50-minute score for a tenor soloist, two choruses, children’s choir and orchestra. Review: Carnegie Hall Turns 125, With Brass and Other Fanfare 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Dutoit, the principal conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, accompanied the soloists and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, which was in good form with supple, flexible phrasing. Music Review: Tanglewood?s Season Opens With Good Friends Like Verdi and Bellini 2011-07-10T21:36:09Z

A Canadian emigrant who became one of America’s most-recognized gospel soloists, Shea himself summed up his career with one of his inspirational trademarks: “The Wonder of It All.” George Beverly Shea, Gospel Singer for Billy Graham Crusades, Dies at 104 2013-04-17T14:14:18Z

Instead of singers, soloists from the ensemble portray the characters, led by a trumpeter as the searching Michael, who in this act is seen taking his spiritual quest around the world. Music Review: A Karlheinz Stockhausen Work Has Its North American Premiere 2013-07-19T21:29:24Z

I’ve been talking principally of how Mr. Glover sounds as a tap soloist, and in one section of “SoLE PoWER” he stresses the point by dancing in the dark. Dance Review: Savion Glover Taps at Hummingbird Speed at the Joyce 2010-06-22T22:32:00Z

“You don’t see that with a lot of soloists. You see them and think, ‘What century are we in?’ Conrad Tao Was Never Just Another Prodigy 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z

Two outstanding versions already issued in this year of the concerto's centenary – with Nikolaj Znaider and Thomas Zehetmair as soloists respectively – did so much more memorably, in their very different ways. Elgar: Violin Concerto; etc - review 2010-12-16T22:15:00Z

Norman’s “Unstuck,” from 2008, was also a tightly controlled riot on Friday, and Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 1 — with Noah Bendix-Balgley, one of the orchestra’s concertmasters, as the soloist — sang with full-bodied sweetness. Review: The Berlin Philharmonic Gives a Master Class at Carnegie 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z

The level of soloists, and of effort, was high across the board. NSO offers “Lobgesang,” but highlight is organist Paul Jacobs playing Bach

Every soloist had a chance to shine, throughout the piece. Two Gems of June: Premieres at Carnegie Hall and Harlem School of the Arts 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z

Because so many pianists are so good, many concertgoers have simply come to expect that any soloist playing the Tchaikovsky First Concerto with the New York Philharmonic will be a phenomenal technician. Virtuosos Becoming a Dime a Dozen 2011-08-12T13:09:23Z

Franck’s “Seven Last Words of Christ From the Cross,” with readings and hymns; with soloists and instrumentalists; Michael Crawford, music director. Easter Choral Works in Performance 2010-03-25T20:41:00Z

It took him eight years to become a soloist, and five more to become a principal. An Unassuming Prince Dons the Velvet Cloak at Ballet Theater 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

The accounts of Beiderbecke’s tremendous ear — a protean soloist on the cornet, he composed on piano — and shyness are moving. ‘Bix’ Review: A Jazz Legend Fondly Remembered 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

With the vocal soloists therefore underemployed, Mr. Scott declined to hire guest male soloists, drawing instead from the choir: Patrick Fennig, countertenor; Martin Coyle, tenor; and Kelvin Chan and Daniel Moore, baritones. Review: St. Thomas Choir and Concert Royal Perform Handel 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

A double concerto adds two soloists to the orchestra, and the Ives has five: four flutists and a trumpeter. Review: A Concerto Makes Two Soloists a Many-Tentacled Creature 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z

The Seattle Symphony’s current program, pairing the Brahms Violin Concerto with Bartok’s “Concerto for Orchestra,” drew a large and appreciative audience that also was eager to check out the merits of soloist Alexander Velinzon. Solos step up in Symphony’s take on two masterpieces 2014-04-26T00:46:53Z

A small group of soloists stated a chorale melody, answered by the chorus, a style in alternation with freer sections of large chorus. Marking Johann Sebastian’s birthday with a tribute to the Bach family 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

In June, she will appear in Carnegie’s main hall as the soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto, one of her signature works. Review: Beatrice Rana, a Young Pianist, Holds Carnegie Rapt 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

I love the intimate relationship between soloist and orchestra in these pieces, which are so wonderfully inventive in melody, sonority and form. Composing for the piano in black and white 2010-06-03T22:05:00Z

Mrs. Holloman had further recitals in New York and was a featured soloist with symphony orchestras before winning a Rockefeller grant in 1961 that enabled her to study in London and Berlin. Charlotte Holloman, concert singer and voice teacher, dies at 93 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

“He treats every one with the same respect, from the janitor to Anne-Sophie Mutter, a soloist of great repute,” said Paul Silver, a violist. A Conductor Whose Worship Stands Apart 2010-02-19T16:42:00Z

Basie, the rhythmically spring-loaded pianist and bandleader, had more than a star soloist in Young, who changed the language of the tenor saxophone. Reissues: ’50s Moxie, ’60s Soul and ’90s Hip-Hop 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

This proved true in the Concerti, which had a playful kind of complexity in the performance Mr. Sachs drew from the accomplished ensemble and the brilliant soloist, the violinist Julia Glenn. Review: Milton Babbitt Inspires a Focus! Festival Tribute 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

For many of the performers, the festival is an opportunity to step outside of scripted roles and strut their stuff as concert soloists. Critic?s Notebook: Cabaret Love Is Busting Out All Over (but Not on TV) 2010-09-30T21:11:00Z

Victor Lebedev, as Antoine the actor, was a self-assured soloist with a fine line, but he was a little rocky as a partner. Mikhailovsky Ballet's 'Flames of Paris' makes rousing West Coast debut 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z

From that moment, in a program of just two symphonies and no star soloist, the focus was on Blomstedt. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Conductor Is the Star 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

Rollins, perhaps the only remaining figure of Davis's stature, seemed like a man made lonely by his position of the great soloist. Miles Davis: 'Coltrane was a very greedy man. Bird was, too. He was a big hog' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-11-06T13:26:00Z

And there will be a trio of amplified soloists, including a double bassist who plays at times with a credit card instead of a bow. A High-Pressure Countdown for the New York Philharmonic’s New Maestro 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

Despite the novelty concept, his direction was unimaginative, shifting the chorus in clumsy blocks and plonking the soloists front-of-stage to deliver their arias. Semiramide ? review 2011-08-29T17:30:00Z

There were also cabaret elements to Mohammed Fairouz’s “Pierrot Lunaire,” a theatrical song cycle scored for Schoenberg’s “Pierrot” ensemble, which was given its premiere here with the young tenor Timur Bekbosunov as soloist. Music Review: ‘Pierrot Lunaire,’ at Merkin Concert Hall 2013-06-09T21:17:20Z

Anne-Sophie Mutter, as soloist, gave proof, if such were needed, that she has little Gypsy in her soul, but she has plenty of electricity in her fingertips and bow, which served to good effect. Music Review: Andris Nelsons Conducts Boston Symphony at Tanglewood 2012-07-16T22:18:50Z

The fourth of Beethoven’s five piano concertos is the only one that begins with the soloist playing alone. Bronfman Braces for the Five Piano Concertos 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

But the expressive conductor and the exuberant soloist were certainly on the same page Thursday evening, in the first of four Seattle Symphony performances of a program featuring the Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 1. Review: Expressive conductor plus exuberant soloist equals stirring evening 2011-05-06T17:10:05Z

Many have allowed their dancers to slip into the role of choreographer, as in “The Ritual,” an American Ballet Theatre film choreographed by company soloist Gabe Stone Shayer. Perspective | The best dance, on your laptop: Young risk-takers are going outdoors to create short, raw films 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z

This year, for the first time, the Kennedy Center chose two guest curators: Peck, a New York City Ballet soloist as well as a choreographer, and American Ballet Theatre principal Misty Copeland. Perspective | Justin Peck, Misty Copeland curate ‘Ballet Across America’ series 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

It consists of a soloist singing a plucky, feisty tune, joined periodically by a chorus that strenuously agrees with him. Twelve Feel-Good Seasonal Pop Classics, with and Without Christmas 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

On Friday evening, the musically keen choreographer was in the pit conducting Los Angeles' outstanding Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra, five excellent soloists and the marvelous Bob Cole Conservatory Chamber Choir from Cal State Long Beach. Mark Morris' 'Dido and Aeneas' an exuberant spin on ancient epic 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

The same fine subtleties appealed in the work of the soloists on offer, too, neither of them ostentatious. Even the Tuning Up Gets an Ovation as Tanglewood Reopens 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z

It was as if Conlon, the orchestra and Leonidas Kavakos, the probing if idiosyncratic soloist, were not always on the same page. Conlon serves Shostakovich suite to the max with CSO 2011-04-22T17:40:00Z

Could this lovely but often self-absorbed soloist become an exemplar of classical style? Bringing It All Back Home: City Ballet Begins Again With Balanchine 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

Robert Langevin, the Philharmonic’s principal flutist, was a deft if unexciting soloist in the flute concerto. Colliding Concerts Deliver a Surfeit of Mozart 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

Yes, he has plans — big ones: a screening at the Hollywood Bowl of Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas," with an orchestra, a chorus, soloists and Elfman himself singing the lead role of Jack Skellington. Essential Arts & Culture: Thoroughly modern museums and the go-to guy for Halloween 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

The platform was packed to the gunnels, nevertheless, with the 10 vocal soloists doubling as the chorus and an orchestra of 18 players. Esther – review 2013-04-28T14:55:01Z

Leonidas Kavakos was the soloist, supremely confident in the face of its technical challenges and marvellously alert to its profound emotional shifts. LSO/Gergiev/Kavakos ? review 2011-03-25T22:15:00Z

Each program included a piano concerto, with Christian Zacharias as the soloist. Music Review: Bamberg Symphony Led by Jonathan Nott at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-05-22T22:06:14Z

One of the soloists canceled his American orchestral debut to be there. Perspective | Can Meghan and Harry make you care about Handel? 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

The last orchestra concert I took in, on Wednesday, might not look so bold on paper: The formidable pianist Kirill Gerstein was the soloist in Schumann’s Piano Concerto, and Mr. Langrée conducted Brahms’s First Symphony. Encouraging Signs of Freshness at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

The dramatic finish, for both the soloist and the orchestra, was the final stamp of excellence on a very satisfying musical evening. Seattle Symphony opens Masterworks series with impressive program 2010-09-24T21:29:00Z

The hall reopened with mostly soloists and smaller ensembles, delaying a steadier schedule of larger-scale performances until 2022. International orchestras tour US for 1st time in 2 years 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

And the soloist in the concerto is the brilliant and probing young Italian pianist Beatrice Rana, in her Philharmonic debut. The Philharmonic’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

The soloist here is the marvelous Soara-Joye Ross as Frankie, and for the duration of the song she is the life force incarnate, exultant and undeniable. Review: Bad Girl Makes Good in a Glorious ‘Carmen Jones’ 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

Singing their whole section from memory, slightly swaying to the music, they joined soloists and orchestra in a kind of wild ecstatic bacchanal while Eschenbach danced and swept his arms on the podium. At the end of his tenure, the NSO’s Eschenbach delivers a performance to remember 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

As the lone female soloist of “Rubies” — its dangerously commanding mistress of ceremonies — the much younger Emily Kikta was just as terrific an example of Balanchine’s view of girl power. Review: City Ballet, in Turmoil, Shows the Value of What’s at Stake 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

Earlier this year, the American Ballet Theatre soloist was promoted to principal dancer; she is the New York company's first African American woman to hold that title. Ballerina Misty Copeland dances home to San Pedro 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z

Throughout, Dausgaard and the ensemble were as one with the soloist. L.A. Chamber Orchestra's impressive guest conductor leads homage to Tim Burton, 'A Freak in Burbank' 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

On the first half of the concert Thursday evening at David Geffen Hall, Janine Jansen was a radiant soloist in Brahms’s Violin Concerto, renewing that war horse with subtly ardent playing. Review: A Tale of Two Women at the New York Philharmonic 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

Fred Sherry was the committed soloist in the piece, a blend of lyrical fragments and pizzicatos that emerge from a rhythmically complex framework. Music Review: Talk Frames Performance of Recent Works 2011-06-21T21:12:01Z

The videos were also a venue for suggestions of edits — a digital analogue to Brahms finishing his Violin Concerto with the help of the soloist, his friend Joseph Joachim. A Pianist Has Cracked a Composer’s Code 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

While all of the soloists were capable, a few merit special attention. Review | Everyone’s a soloist in Eclipse Chamber concert 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

But Ehnes's account was always lithe, truthful and eloquent, and in the third movement, soloist and conductor allowed Elgar's masterly ruminations all the space and depth they demand. Philharmonia/Ashkenazy – review 2013-06-14T16:59:51Z

In between, the brilliant pianist Stephen Hough is the soloist in the Schumann Piano Concerto. Classical Music Listings for March 18-24 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

With this repertory Uchida is no ordinary soloist: She is an inspired and inspiring collaborator in the creation of orchestral chamber music. Mitsuko Uchida's makes for eloquent Mozart with CSO 2011-01-28T18:48:33Z

Her appearances are entwined with those of four soloists whose airy incursions contrast with her sharper edge. Matthew Bourne's Early Adventures; Ballo della Regina; La Sylphide – review 2012-05-26T23:05:53Z

“River Niger” has an infectious and captivating energy, rooted on a rhythmic B-flat minor ostinato, yet open in form with each soloist leading us on a journey throughout the recording. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love New Orleans Jazz 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

The concerto’s turgid post-Straussian orchestration often buries the soloist, but Alsop is a strong accompanist and did a good job here. BSO at Strathmore: A well-balanced ensemble that hits right at the surface

Ms. Jolas intended the singer to be part of the quartet texture, not a soloist. Music Review: Idiosyncratic Pairings on a Wide Playing Field 2011-03-23T22:27:32Z

Trying something difficult, Dett blended spirituals, elements of folk music, late Romantic richness and stretches of operatically charged writing for four vocal soloists. Critic’s Notebook: The Pittburgh Symphony Orchestra Plays at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-11T21:00:39Z

From the corps de ballet to the soloists, arms were softly supple and heads always at proper angle to the body. ABT's 'Sleeping Beauty' at Segerstrom a lush return to tradition 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

Mr. Zinman led soloist and ensemble in an exuberant dance through the intricacies of the scampering Presto. Review: Lisa Batiashvili With the New York Philharmonic 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

Recently, they met at Mr. Peck’s office at Lincoln Center, where he is the resident choreographer for City Ballet and a soloist. A Ballet Crowd, Bustin’ Out All Over ‘Carousel’ 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

Academy director Marina Leonova, a graduate and a former Bolshoi soloist, who wears her blonde hair in a neat bun, said the school preserves its classical traditions. Bolshoi Ballet Academy to see first U.S. graduate 2012-01-31T12:40:50Z

But halfway through, it ran delightfully amok, when Martin Frost — the soloist for the evening, in a superb performance of Mozart’s sublime Clarinet Concerto — broke loose in an encore. Music Review: Martin Frost, Clarinetist, and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra 2013-12-09T21:54:32Z

Just three minutes long, “Flourish” is immediately swept over by Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, with Joshua Bell as soloist. Music Review: New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall - Review 2011-12-10T00:25:30Z

Between the Weber and the Beethoven, the cellist Gautier Capuçon was the soloist in a vital, singing account of Dvorak’s Cello Concerto. Music Review: Dresden Philharmonic Led by Rafael Fr?hbeck de Burgos at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-03-12T22:35:40Z

As part of it, Calvin Royal III, an African-American soloist at American Ballet Theater, performed the “Agon” pas de deux with Unity Phelan of City Ballet. Arthur Mitchell, Ballet’s ‘Grandfather of Diversity’ 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

Rosemary Joshua's fresh-faced soprano, Sarah Connolly's plush mezzo, Robert Murray's lithe tenor and Simon Keenlyside's formidable baritone made up an exemplary quartet of soloists, with Jonty Ward's treble interventions perfectly voiced. Prom 58: Mendelssohn's Elijah ? review 2011-08-29T10:24:31Z

In the first movement he seemed to be trying for more expansive tempos than Mr. Maazel’s, which led to some rhythmic imprecision between soloist and orchestra. Music Review: Maazel Leads Philharmonic in Strauss Program - Review 2011-10-21T23:38:55Z

A frequent guest soloist with the New York Philharmonic, she is the orchestra’s artist in residence this season. A Worshiper At Bach’s Altar 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z

In the 1980s, Birdsong attempted a comeback as a soloist, but the effort petered out. The Family of a Former Supreme Battles for Control of Her Life 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

Overture, and ended with the pianist Emanuel Ax as the exciting soloist in Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto. Review: ‘Canta-Concerto’ by Marc Neikrug by the New York Philharmonic 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

“She is a strong and inspiring bandleader, a brilliant soloist with a unique, often quirky approach and a beautiful guitar tone that reaches back to tradition,” he wrote in an email this week. Mary Halvorson on Guitar: Unflinching and Full of Grace 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

It’s fair to hope for further triumphs from them all; you could see how soloists and corps dancers were galvanized to new luster by their presence. Critic?s Notebook: Injuries and Triumphs Color a Ballet Season 2011-07-10T22:01:07Z

It's all about moving up the totem pole: Corps dancers want to be soloists, soloists want to be principals, principals want to protect their turf and compete with each other for choice roles. Arabesques, reality-style: Ballet hits pop culture 2012-06-29T19:01:09Z

As if presenting a vast and stately gavotte, the soloists and ensembles moved about the stage, advancing and retreating as they were featured in turn. All the stars align for a stirring St. Matthew Passion at SSO 2014-02-22T20:45:27Z

The Apostles, Royal Albert Hall, SW7, 10 Aug, royalalberthall.com Conductor Mark Elder, the Hallé choir and a fine sextet of soloists bring their superb account of Elgar's oratorio to London. London 2012 event listings 10 August: what's on during the Olympics 2012-08-08T12:24:37Z

The soloist was Cynthia Phelps, the Philharmonic’s impressive principal violist, who played the world premiere of the concerto this summer in North Carolina. New York Philharmonic’s Next Leader Gives a Taste of Things to Come 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

Between the Strauss and the Respighi, Mr. McAdams led two works in which Anthony McGill, the Metropolitan Opera’s principal clarinetist, was the soloist. Music Review: Showing the Adults How It?s Done 2010-12-07T21:04:00Z

Bridget Kuhns was Friday’s exemplary soloist, dispensing semaphore-like arm signals to the corps of 32 Houston men and women. Three ballet companies prove the brilliance of one legendary choreographer in 'Celebrate Forsythe' 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

Storm Large was soloist in Kurt Weill's "Seven Deadly Sins," giving the gleeful impression of being better attuned to the subject matter than well tuned. At the Ojai Music Festival, Classical style takes a turn 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

On Mondays, the day most ballet dancers spend soaking their aching feet, Skylar Brandt, a soloist at American Ballet Theater, takes a different route. Skylar Brandt: A Ballerina Invests in Herself 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

The NBM ensemble brings it to life with five soloists, a full baroque orchestra, three trumpeters and a timpani at 7:30 p.m. 5 classical-music recommendations for Dec. 9-16 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

More disconcerting was the work of some of the professionals in the society’s orchestra, particularly in a crucial cello solo near the end, tortured at considerable length, and among the vocal soloists. Music Review: Tritle Leads Oratorio Society in ?Paulus? 2010-05-11T22:12:00Z

The choral singing was consistently ferocious, the soloists more variable. BBCSO/Sinaisky ? review 2011-02-22T18:20:48Z

An outside soloist, the tenor Marc Molomot, sang the taxing role of the Evangelist bravely. Music Review | Trinity Choir and Trinity Baroque Orchestra: At Trinity, Andrew Parrott Leads a Full-Bodied ?Passion? 2010-03-16T21:46:00Z

A Quebecois period-instrument ensemble brings Bach and, with it, a star soloist. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in NYC This Weekend 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

She started playing arrangements of classic 1920s New Orleans pieces, which led her to jazz's pioneering soloists, soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet and trumpeter Louis Armstrong. Israel's Anat Cohen plays Jazz Alley April 27-28 2010-04-22T21:15:00Z

Too often, premieres have short rehearsal periods; then, unless future performances are lined up, or unless soloists champion concertos written for them, the music can easily disappear. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Conductor Argues With Passion 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z

Ravel learned how to loosen up from Gershwin, and the evening’s two Ravel works — the Piano Concerto in G, also with Wang as soloist, and “Boléro” — are among his most successfully jazz-tinged. Dudamel and Wang deliver a 'Rhapsody in Blue' for the Hollywood Bowl history books 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

Joshua Bell brings the famed London chamber orchestra to Lincoln Center, leading it from the concertmaster’s chair and acting as the soloist in Wieniawski’s Violin Concerto No. 2. 8 Classical Music Concerts to See in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

Every bit of the musical space is full of theme, counter-theme and rhythm, but we don’t have soloists yet. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love New Orleans Jazz 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

At Lincoln Center, in New York, a performance of a new concerto for oud — an Arab lute — was scuttled when the Arab American soloist was detained for several days by immigration authorities. Would Donald Trump make art great again? 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

They were not written for a certain soloist; they were very abstract, written for the instrument, rather than a person. Unsuk Chin on the Violin Concerto She Swore She’d Never Write 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z

Goldston did accept an opportunity last year to be the soloist in a cello concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Seattle cellist Lori Goldston, who played with Nirvana’s 1993-94 tour, brings her silent-film scores to Base 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

Eventually, the violin plays scratchy musings, as consoling strings cushion the soloist with mysterious harmonies. National Youth Orchestra Flexes Its Muscles at Carnegie Hall 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

It drew in the entire orchestra, with spotlights for many soloists, who by now mostly sounded as if they were on board with the program. Review | National Symphony Orchestra gets with the toe-tapping Mexican program 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

The cellist Kian Soltani, the soloist in the Elgar, played with buttery understatement and intimacy, and considerable wit in the Lento. Review: International Orchestras Are Finally Back at Carnegie 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

In the second movement, the soloist vocalizes alongside notated playing, which Chase dispatched with her trademark theatricality. Review: After 55 Years, the Helsinki Philharmonic Returns to Carnegie Hall 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

But St. Thomas presented a cast of soloists on Tuesday evening that filled out the finest performance this grizzled follower of the work has heard in many years. Music Review: Exploring Variations in a Christmastime Favorite 2010-12-08T23:09:00Z

Alex Wong was a principal soloist with Miami City Ballet when he decided on a whim to audition for “So You Think.” But Is It Good for Dance? ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ at 15 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

That gave him leverage in all of those places when negotiating to book the many singers, soloists and guest conductors his firm represented. Ronald A. Wilford, Manager to a Host of Legendary Maestros, Dies at 87 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z

Maliphant's initial solo was highly abstract in style: a meditative, spinning dance that had soloist Daniel Proietto almost disappear into music and light. This week's new dance 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z

Soprano Kate Vetter Cain was the soloist in Bach’s “Wedding Cantata,” which speaks of banishing winter cold for the pleasures of spring and blossoming love. Review | Washington Bach Consort gives a cheerful performance fit for spring 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

You could count the number of black women in major ballet companies on one hand, and the soloists on a few fingers. Books of The Times: Jenifer Ringer and Misty Copeland Have New Memoirs 2014-03-16T21:00:25Z

Singers like Mr. Burton and the exquisite soprano Sarah Brailey, who ascended the pulpit to deliver the sweetly dazzling “And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them,” are in growing demand as soloists. Music Review: Trinity Wall Street’s ‘Messiah’ 2013-12-08T22:27:39Z

The corps, including several splendid soloists recently seen in other lead Ratmansky roles, was exemplary. Review: Dancing Chickens and a Real Pony in American Ballet Theater’s Comic Pastoral 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

“The whole classical music world — orchestras, operas, soloists, conductors and especially the programming people — we need to change our views,” she continued. A Conductor Becomes a Virtual-Concert Jet-Setter 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z

Tongue and his forces, including a fine quartet of soloists, made a decent job of it, with the choir in particular marshalling formidable tone. Vaughan Williams premiere ? review 2011-03-07T22:15:00Z

“In general Garfield’s band has strong soloists, and Roosevelt has really good ensembles.” Alt-Rock Hub, Purring With Jazz 2010-08-26T19:16:00Z

Only the soprano soloist in the last movement fell below the quality of the rest. Mahler’s challenge triumphantly met at SSO | Classical review 2012-11-30T19:07:07Z

Pazcoguin, to her distress, remains the only female soloist who has not performed the part of the Sugar Plum Fairy in “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker.” A ‘Rogue Ballerina’ Gives a Candid Account of Ballet Culture 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z

Also performed were works by Liszt, Sibelius and Paganini, the latter featuring local violin soloist Benjamin Schmid. TV highlights: 08/07/2011 2011-07-07T20:59:01Z

Double doors behind the stage are flung open, making way for a soloist or conductor to descend a flight of steps leading to the spotlight. At 26, the Conductor Klaus Mäkelä’s Star Keeps Rising and Rising 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

The Collegium’s vocal soloists, drawn from the chorus, were adequate, and more than that in the case of the tenor Thomas Hobbs, who was a fine Evangelist. Music Review: Canticum Novum and Collegium Vocale Gent Sing Bach Oratorio 2012-12-17T05:23:04Z

Not long after that, however, Lawrence entered the Army, and Gorme went on the nightclub circuit as a soloist until his return to civilian life two years later. Eydie Gorme, Popular Nightclub and TV Singer, Dies at 84 2013-08-10T23:48:41Z

This year the chosen soloists were particularly excellent. Music Review: Young Concert Artists Gala at Alice Tully Hall 2013-05-17T21:18:15Z

They will also be the soloists in Bach’s Concerto for Violin and Oboe. Opera & Classical Music Listings for April 3-9 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Tall, quiet, mature, handsome, self-effacing, the dancer Craig Hall, a soloist with New York City Ballet, bade one kind of farewell on Sunday afternoon with grace and warmth. Review: Craig Hall’s Last Matinee on a Lincoln Center Stage 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

This was not a professional development the committed soloist was seeking. Mendelssohn fans: Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg in Seattle May 18-19 2012-05-17T19:59:12Z

Perhaps the festival should consider presenting a seminar on the pitfalls of writing for soloists and orchestra. Critic’s Notebook: Robert Beaser’s Guitar Concerto at June in Buffalo Festival 2012-06-13T21:58:39Z

The composition is regarded as a monument of 19th-century music, a sprawling work of five movements requiring an orchestra of 100, a choir of up to 200 and two soloists. Gilbert Kaplan, millionaire businessman and self-taught maestro of Mahler, dies at 74 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

The soloists in the intensely felt performance of the Serenade, meanwhile, were and . Nash Ensemble/Brabbins – review 2012-12-05T19:48:00Z

Riccardo Chailly conducts the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra with barely contained glee in this film, at least when he’s not desperately trying to keep up with the soloist — and well he might. Martha Memories: The Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments on YouTube 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

She was a soloist with some of the world’s leading orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic, and sang at the White House. Camilla Williams, Opera Singer, Dies at 92 2012-02-02T22:51:38Z

Comfort, sadness and faith in an afterlife free of suffering are interwoven in this sprawling work for chorus, soloists and orchestra. Review: Death, Two Ways, at the New York Philharmonic 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

“I was never a soloist, I was an accompanist. That was my forte. I never had Buddy Rich chops,” he told Modern Drummer, in 2005. The Drummer Hal Blaine Provided the Beat for American Music 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

What remained in his playing was startling: a smooth legato in his improvising, dynamically even, almost lapidary; a manner of accompanying soloists so silky it was almost provocative. Peter Bernstein Quartet at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

The entire work requires a combination of adrenaline and careful pacing for a soloist. At SSO: Two nights of Shostakovich, two Schwarzes 2013-05-09T22:02:20Z

Kremer was the first international star soloist to promote Philip Glass, or any Minimalist, for that matter. Gidon Kremer shares a performance of a lifetime 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

He’s a soloist, but interested in the whole area of a piece of music: backgrounds and middle grounds as much as foregrounds. New Releases by Optimo, Anita Wilson and Dexter Johnson 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

Then the thoughtful pianist David Fray was an elegant soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor. Review: The Searing Power of an AIDS Symphony 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

Concentrate instead on the purity of sound, the emotionally expressive yet restrained performance by all and the impeccable attention to text of the soloists. Bach: St John Passion – review 2013-03-03T00:05:57Z

Smaller ensembles and soloists are possible, and while some events might be held in a concert venue, all will be digital with high-quality audio and visual components. In Phase 2 of reopening, theaters and museums are a go. But the Smithsonian will take it slow. 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

But the eloquent soloists and fleet playing are memorable, too. Classical Playlist: Handel, George Benjamin, David Lang and Others 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

Winners will receive cash prizes of up to $1,100 in soloist and band categories, judged by a group of music professionals who assess DVD recordings of performances. Singing to Be Heard, Behind Bars in Mexico 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

A stirring finale, but it was difficult not to notice that Mr. Wilkins and the five soloists — not to mention the chorus — far outnumbered the single African-American musician currently in the orchestra. Review: ‘In Their Footsteps,’ a New York Philharmonic Tribute 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

The program’s centerpiece is the world premiere of a genuine rarity: a double harp concerto, commissioned by the Seattle Symphony, with the composer Hannah Lash as one of the two soloists. Review: Seattle Symphony shines in major works by women composers, despite last-minute conductor change 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

Because when you’re accompanying a soloist, the soloist is the conductor. What makes a good conductor? Harmony — and ‘authority through knowledge.’ 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

She was one of the violin world’s most astonishing prodigies — and two decades after her rise to teenage stardom, Hilary Hahn at 37 continues to grow as a star soloist. A high-wattage evening: violinist Hilary Hahn with Seattle Symphony 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

So, at least, he told the NSO audience at the Kennedy Center — not a large one, since the draw of a less-known work, without a soloist, was evidently limited. Review | With a tentative 10th, NSO offers view of what might have been 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

Here Mark Nuccio, the orchestra’s acting principal clarinetist, was a sweet-toned soloist, sprightly in the cadenza that links the melting opening movement and the snappy finale. Music Review: The New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-06-02T20:37:30Z

Orchestra music directors, as opposed to those at an opera company, generally have a greater influence on a season, shaping repertory, approving guest conductors and soloists, and overseeing new orchestra hires. Levine to Leave Boston Symphony 2011-03-02T23:29:59Z

Benjamin Bowman was the violin soloist; Ormsby Wilkins conducted; the dancers acquitted themselves with skill and great good cheer. American Ballet Theater Opens its Fall Season 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

The performance was graced by strong vocal soloists, including Mr. Kaiser, the stentorian bass Morris Robinson and the plush mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor. Music Review: Unfinished Works at Mostly Mozart at Lincoln Center - Review 2011-08-28T19:03:32Z

Similarly, the soloists, not accustomed to assuming stage roles, could be stiff. L.A. Master Chorale's 'Alexander's Feast' is a treat for the ears and eyes 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

It takes a village to perform Handel’s “Messiah”: a nimble and speedy chorus, an accomplished orchestra, four virtuoso soloists, and a keyboard player who is equally adept at the harpsichord and the organ. Hallelujah! Seattle Symphony and Chorale deliver an energetic, nuanced ‘Messiah’ 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z

Mr. Hallberg is relentlessly ambitious throughout: He must join Ballet Theater; he must become a soloist, then a principal. David Hallberg’s Tell All (About His Own Psyche) 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

Audience members seemed thrilled to be back in the hall listening to the full orchestra, with its music director and a first-rate soloist performing great music. Review: After 20-month absence, Seattle Symphony music director back to conduct before a pumped-up crowd 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor can be a knockout if you have a soloist capable of dispatching its demonically difficult piano part. 2010-01-09T01:00:00Z

When musical soloists at the top of their respective fields join forces, it can make for a formidable meeting of sensibilities, a fascinating friction, or both. Review: Two Masters Unite in a Meeting of Musical Minds 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

You don’t have to know about the history of the concerto genre to “get” that this form involves a back-and-forth between a soloist and an orchestra. Curious About Classical Music? Here’s Where to Start 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

Onstage, the soloists did well too, given a fluid, arioso style of vocal writing that limited their opportunities to shine but did encourage them to be real characters. Opera Review: A Review of Julian Anderson’s ‘Thebans’ for the English National Opera 2014-05-05T12:53:03Z

For instance, studies of musicians show that from childhood onwards, compared with "mere" orchestral players, soloists practised for more hours, under more pressure to do so, from earlier ages. Do (strict) Chinese mums know best? 2011-01-16T00:06:32Z

The new concerto emerged from a collaboration with violinist Daniel Hope, who is the soloist for the premiere. Gabriel Prokofiev debuts concerto 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

And as a saxophone soloist, Mr. Richardson went in every direction but the one you expected; he played arcing, bluesy, honeydew phrases without submitting to cliché. January in Live Jazz: 5 Standout Shows 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

Composers often highlight the strengths of particular soloists or ensembles. Review: Roomful of Teeth, Making Nerdiness Cool 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

Amusingly, some of the soloist bios included their Hollywood credits — this is Los Angeles, after all, and singers need work. L.A. Master Chorale brings sense of community to 'St. Matthew' Passion 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

McBride, 72, joined Balanchine’s school at 14, leapt into the New York City Ballet at 16, was a soloist by 17 and a principal by 18. Honors Class of ’14: Al Green, Tom Hanks, Patricia McBride, Lily Tomlin, Sting

First fiddle Brendan O'Brien, later leader of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, recalls how he was the perfect leader, "a fine soloist with the most beautiful, individual sound and a totally natural fiddler". Raymond Cohen obituary 2011-03-22T18:23:06Z

One goal is also to counter the soloist mentality that predominates among many young Chinese musicians, he added. New York Philharmonic and Shanghai Symphony Become Partners 2012-11-14T03:00:00Z

The veteran soloist, Emanuel Ax, seemed to be searching for a middle ground between his pearly geniality and Payare’s starker phrasing, and the results sounded unsettled. Review: A Shostakovich Symphony Finally Reaches the Philharmonic 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

Two towering masterpieces, a stage full of musicians on their mettle, an amazing piano soloist and an inspiring conductor. Review: Pianist Yefim Bronfman and Seattle Symphony earn thunderous applause 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

But there was no way Mr. Hines, who has weathered a soloist with laryngitis and an ice storm that stranded choristers, was calling off Christmas. Christmas Without Music? Churches Are Finding a Way 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z

He was a gracious host, disarming the pomp with cozy anecdotes about the songs, and singling out soloists by name. Music Review: Sting?s Songbook at the Met, With Strings Attached 2010-07-14T20:35:00Z

Wu Man was the soloist in Lou Harrison's Concerto for Pipa With String Orchestra, but here there could be no cultural detente with an eloquent Chinese soloist and Renga's poorly tuned and timid strings. Feeling the sonic rush at the Ojai Music Festival 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

The four young soloists were alert and accurate but rarely more than that. Kent Tritle and Musica Sacra Bring ‘Messiah’ to Carnegie 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

During the applause, as the conductor Brad Lubman made a gestures to both soloists, there was some laughter when he encouraged an ovation for Voyager. It’s Alive! It’s With the Band! A Computer Soloist Holds Its Own 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z

The Dead weren't just a rotating cast of soloists backed by a rhythm section but a true ensemble without a hierarchy between rhythm and melody. Grateful Dead pays slack tribute to legacy 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z

The soloist in Beethoven's concerto was a young pianist, Sean Chen, who played everything with a crisp staccato attack that soon became predictable. Mark Swed hits the road for a weekend of SoCal orchestra listening 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

The centerpiece was also American: Christopher Rouse’s Flute Concerto of 1993 in its New York premiere, with Robert Langevin, the Philharmonic’s principal flutist, as soloist. Leonard Slatkin Leads the Philharmonic in Copland and Rouse 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

He was the soloist here, offering a skilled and passionate performance, the gut strings on his instrument producing an earthy sound that sometimes grew less distinct in the lower register. Music Review: Dusting Off the Real Dragonetti Concerto 2010-10-05T21:15:00Z

The rocketing scherzo with its syncopations sounded like a natural fit for Carpenter’s aggressive virtuosity, but the finale splintered inconclusively, with soloist and orchestra failing to unite in a common point.  Review | NSO gets off to an energetic, all-American start 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

Florence Price’s Violin Concerto No. 1, with soloist Melissa White, put the musicians on more traditional European-classical ground. Review | The National Philharmonic presents and proposes music of black composers 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z

The eye is wonderfully teased by the forward-backward and right-left correspondences across the stage, and the detail given to each soloist fascinates in its own right. Dance Review: Pam Tanowitz Brings a Certain Eccentricity to Dance at Joyce 2014-02-05T22:27:31Z

To be fair, the performance I witnessed on Saturday, conducted by David Fulmer and featuring the International Contemporary Ensemble and a trio of impressive vocal soloists, was merely a concert version. Review: ‘Afterword, the AACM (as) Opera’ Lends a Voice to Stories of Black History 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z

Bridge's modernist connections were then underlined with Alban Berg's Der Wein, in which Claire Booth was the exemplary soprano soloist, handling the slippery vocal lines as if there was nothing remotely challenging about them. Prom 19: BBCSO/Knussen ? review 2011-07-31T17:05:00Z

“Bal de Couture” featured no fewer than 10 of the company’s female principals, and 9 of the company’s male principals, with the rising soloist Chase Finlay. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Gala, With Costumes by Valentino 2012-09-22T00:16:05Z

Ball joined the company as a member of the corps de ballet in 2012 before he was elevated to soloist in 2017. New York City Ballet Promotes Three Men to Principal Dancers 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z

The soloist in the concerto, meanwhile, was Kristian Bezuidenhout, elegant and eloquent as always, the dark, brittle sound of his fortepiano conferring qualities of declamatory urgency on a work often considered serenely sweet. OAE/Cohen review 2011-01-05T22:01:01Z

He said he hopes that someday it will be performed by other piano soloists. Ben Folds, unlikely poster boy for orchestras, brings millennials to late-night series 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

A group of 20 soloists — including principal players and vibraphones, as well as two pianos that keep time throughout the piece — begin with propulsive 16th notes that recall the opening of “Runner.” Steve Reich Talks About His First Orchestral Work in 30 Years 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

And I suspect he would have been pleased that the exhibition’s chronological scan of his career concludes with a view not of Rauschenberg the soloist, but the collaborator, and friend. Robert Rauschenberg: It Takes a Village to Raise a Genius 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

Harper would become one of its important soloists. At 80, Billy Harper’s Rhapsodic Saxophone Is Still a Towering Force 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z

“It was a principal, me; a soloist, Diana White; and then this baby corps girl, Maria, who’s like the queen of the ballet,” Whelan said. Farewell to a Ballerina With Borscht Belt Humor and ‘Legs of Life’ 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

In 2011 she made her conducting debut in Paris, simultaneously leading and singing Ligeti’s crazed “Mysteries of the Macabre,” a daunting enough assignment purely as a soprano soloist. A Soprano Finds a New Voice: Conducting 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

Kirov conducted with great vitality and energy as well as a fine sense of both balance and timing, and got exciting performances from all hands — chorus, soloists, orchestra. SSO delivers ‘Carmina’ in all its splendor 2014-04-04T19:06:01Z

But the most dramatic change is Sellars' incorporation of three dancers who interact with the soloists in amazing ways. John Adams' staged `Gospel' has NY premiere 2013-03-29T13:55:09Z

In the third movement, depicting the ill-fated meeting of Kullervo and his sister, baritone soloist Benjamin Appl was impassioned and impressive. Thomas Dausgaard leads Seattle Symphony in another excellent Sibelius program with ‘Kullervo’ 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Both ensemble and soloist found the tension between the introverted moments and the furious outbursts. Music Review: New York Philharmonic and Emanuel Ax Play Schoenberg 2012-10-05T23:16:56Z

Britten's magnificent if uneven War Requiem, an amalgam of the Requiem mass with poems by Wilfred Owen, calls on large orchestra and chamber ensemble, two choirs and soloists. War Requiem; King Priam; Caligula – review 2012-06-02T23:05:59Z

This was such a commanding performance of the score known as the “Symphony of a Thousand” — requiring a massive orchestra, doubly massive chorus and eighth vocal soloists — that no defense of Chailly should seem necessary. Why America got it wrong on Riccardo Chailly and how the Italian conductor is proving it 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z

Directed by Adrian Marthaler, the broadcast featured the orchestra, chorus and soloists of the Zurich Opera House. 2010-02-06T03:26:00Z

But with the violinist Leonidas Kavakos as soloist, the performance emphasized the rhythmically jagged and harmonically crunchy elements of the music in a way that made the concerto seem radical on its own terms. A Rare Side-by-Side of a Thrilling Stravinsky 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

The program opened with the Bach, played by the soloists and an ensemble of about two dozen strings and continuo. Review: With Bach as a Catalyst, Thierry Escaich’s Lavish Concerto 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

Precise rhythmic gestures helped coordinate soloist and ensemble. Music Review: Ryu Goto and Orpheus in Spirited Mood at Carnegie Hall 2010-05-05T22:12:00Z

They will also be joined by an impressive group of four vocal soloists from around the country and the Baroque trumpet virtuoso Kris Kwapis. Mystery Mass: Seattle Pro Musica celebrates Bach’s enigmatic masterpiece in B minor 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

The soloists moved to the bottles on the tables to deliver animated volleys that alternately suggested East Asian gamelan music, or scat-singing; in response, the orchestra seemed to search for the deeper implications. Wine Bottles, Twigs and Trash Cans Join the Mostly Mozart Orchestra 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

In every way Storyboard P is the opposite of another soloist, Frank Ejara from Brazil, whose “Som do Movimento” toyed with changing ideas of whether movement causes music, or vice versa. Dance Review: ‘Breakin’ Convention’ Shows a New York Style’s Diversity 2013-06-17T21:38:11Z

A TV theme song, a star soloist and a heaven-storming symphony. A BSO crowd-pleaser 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

Part 1 of the work, dealing with prophecies and the arrival of the Messiah, centered on a domestic scene with an expectant mother, played by the soprano soloist, Laura Heimes. Music Review: ?Messiah? by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra - Review 2011-12-05T23:25:14Z

In accordance with prevailing ideas about the composer's intentions, the singing was entrusted not to choral forces but to a group of nine soloists. Review: A 'Vespers' for the ages at St. James Cathedral 2010-12-04T18:09:00Z

There was an international roster of five vocal soloists. In a Mass, a Cradle of Consolation for Japan 2011-03-23T22:27:34Z

Bowers describes a concerto as a conversation between a soloist and an ensemble. ‘The 2021 Oscar Nominated Short Films’ Review: Major Issues in Brief 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

Before the Beethoven the young Swedish clarinetist Martin Fröst was the soloist in Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Festival With Martin Fröst and Louis Langrée 2012-08-26T21:35:23Z

She will play as a soloist but also as an accompanist when important things are happening in the orchestra. Yuja Wang, Pianist and Fashion Plate 2012-04-08T03:23:10Z

This gently dignified piece, with childlike simplicity and few extremes, all but dares its soloist to achieve majesty at a whisper, to only suggest virtuosity. Review: Mozart’s Requiem Gets a Fresh Spin at the Philharmonic 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

The opening movement of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2 crackled with tension between the sunny, relaxed playing of the soloist, Emanuel Ax, and the contained impatience of the orchestral interventions. Review: New York String Orchestra Offers Youthful Energy and a Lush Sound 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

The disc does, however, include the Concerto Macabre, Herrmann's concert version of the lethal concerto from Hangover Square, thrillingly done with the electrifying soloist Martin Roscoe. Herrmann: Citizen Kane; Hangover Square 2010-04-08T21:20:00Z

And she was the only one until this September, when Michaela De Prince arrived as a second soloist. A Ballerina Who Adds to the ‘Palette of What’s Possible’ 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

Another reason the cycle is not more often done, perhaps, is that it calls for six vocal soloists, an expensive luxury for an orchestra. Review | Bernstein, Slatkin and Slava: NSO looks to its past, brightly 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

From there, he toured as featured soloist with various baroque and chamber orchestras in the U.S. and the Netherlands. Bach, beer pair up for a different kind of classical event 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

In particular they demonstrated the exceptional diversity of one dancer, the Brazilian Ms. Körbes, a former soloist with City Ballet and a principal with Pacific Northwest Ballet since 2006. Dance Review: Vail International Dance Festival’s Evenings of Dance 2012-08-06T22:27:47Z

The dry, 40-year-old British stand-up comic and theater soloist shuns media in an age when media is oxygen and at his fingertips. Media-shy comic Kitson has a show in D.C., but no one really knows what it’s about 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

When he returned to New York in 1852, Fry staged an elaborate series of public lectures on the history of music, featuring soloists, choirs, bands and a full orchestra. When the New York Philharmonic Fought Over Santa Claus 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

Elling's London shows are sold out this week, but he's back at the Aldeburgh festival on 12 June as the soloist on Guy Barker's Britten-inspired suite for jazz band and symphony orchestra, That Obscure Hurt. Take Five: John Fordham's month in jazz – April 2013-04-19T09:33:10Z

Japanese dancer and gold winner Shiori Kase, 22, a soloist with English National Ballet in London, was struck by the talent that surrounded her. Medalists named at ballet competition 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

Though it's all impressively put together as a fine vehicle for the soloist , there's no suggestion of Salonen rethinking the genre, or pushing its boundaries. Salonen: Violin Concerto; Nyx – review 2012-10-04T20:49:00Z

Sound emerges from the pit perfectly balanced with the chorus and soloists, as if the performance were being edited in a recording studio and broadcast in real time. Trade Secrets From the Wagner Festival Whisperer 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

The two performances, part of La MaMa’s 50th anniversary season, will include a company of 25 actors, soloists, and chorus members. ArtsBeat Blog: 'La MaMa Cantata' To Celebrate Ellen Stewart 2011-09-15T19:49:23Z

The four soloists were led into their battle by the clarion tones of René Pape, a bass whose vocal depth and presence anchored some of the most challenging ensemble writing in the repertoire. Prom 18: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra/Barenboim – review 2012-07-29T10:47:16Z

For decades a ubiquitous soloist and chamber musician, Ms. Tuttle was praised by critics for her incisive musicianship and large, luminous sound. Karen Tuttle, Violist and Teacher, Dies at 90 2010-12-25T04:40:31Z

Mr. Bell, who first played with the oft-recorded Academy in 1986, will spend six weeks next season performing with it as a violin soloist and directing from the leader’s chair. ArtsBeat: A Changing of the Baton at the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields 2011-06-01T18:55:22Z

He met and equaled all that gustiness as a soloist, but he also created the set’s dimensions of harmony and rhythm. Music Review: Peter Brötzmann and Jason Adasiewicz at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-09-06T21:59:32Z

All the soloists acquit themselves well, but Buttery and the 15-strong Kit Kat Girls and Boys lend Carsen’s production much of its momentum. A Paris Cabaret Makes Way for ‘Cabaret’ 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z

The strings played with spirit, polish and elegant phrasing in the introductory section, although balance and tempos were not always perfectly coordinated between orchestra and soloist. Music Review: Oberlin Conservatory Plays at DiMenna Center and Carnegie 2013-01-21T22:22:40Z

“Clemenza” ended in hugs as well, particularly between chorus and soloists. Peter Sellars turns Mozart's last opera into a modern message of humanity in the face of terror 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

When I was the house pianist at Ronnie Scott's in the 1960s, the star American soloists came over without their own bands, and we all had to do the best we could. Corinne Bailey Rae, Sir Mark Elder and other musicians' greatest on-stage moments 2010-08-05T20:30:00Z

The brilliant organist Paul Jacobs is the soloist. Michael Tilson Thomas?s American Mavericks 2012-02-24T20:12:23Z

Sure enough, the music soon coalesces into the “Turkish” march aria for tenor soloist. Readers Name Some Favorite Musical Surprises of Their Own 2014-04-25T14:00:02Z

Alexander Toradze, the impressive soloist, offered a performance of striking contrasts, with an unusually soulful opening and barely audible pianissimos in the second movement. Music Review | Vladimir Jurowski: The Long and Short of Shostakovich, and Jazzy Ravel 2010-03-08T22:17:00Z

It was in that red brick church on a quiet backstreet near downtown Newark where Houston's career began as a soloist in a gospel choir in the 1970s. Family, fans mourn Whitney Houston with tears, prayers 2012-02-13T01:53:33Z

Ms. Black and David Howard, a former soloist with the Royal Ballet in Britain, who died in 2013, were among the nation’s most sought-after ballet teachers. Maggie Black, Esteemed Ballet and Modern Dance Teacher, Dies at 85 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Listening to the records, Mr. Murray, called “the most formidable tenor soloist of his generation” by the comprehensive Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings, was struck by how dated the original arrangements seemed. David Murray on His New Nat King Cole Album 2011-11-16T23:02:58Z

David Bowie pirouettes in a white suit with Louise Lecavalier, a former soloist with the acrobatic Canadian dance troupe La La La Human Steps, while singing “Look Back in Anger.” Nam June Paik at the Whitney: A Work of Dizzying Complexity 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

Like deep, slow currents pressing through rapid ones, Friday’s soloists in the first section, “Rubric,” landed victoriously amid the pedestrian traffic of 39 corps dancers, who crisscrossed the stage with swift, occasionally hiccupping walking patterns. New York City Ballet Revisits Jerome Robbins 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

When he plays Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 at Disney Hall on Friday, Saturday and Sunday with conductor Krzysztof Urbanski and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, it will be as the scheduled soloist. For violinist Augustin Hadelich, the spotlight shines brighter at 32 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

All we need are six world-class soloists, a full-strength choir, and a repetiteur of sufficient pianistic brilliance to mimic the score's vivid orchestral colouring. Fancy bashing through Wolfgang Rihm's new operatic masterpiece? 2010-07-23T10:01:00Z

With that bit of showmanship out of his system, Mr. Gilbert reverts to form, conducting the Philharmonic in Berg’s Violin Concerto, with Mr. Zimmermann as soloist, and Brahms’s Third Symphony. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z

The outstanding young soloist Nikolaj Znaider was brilliantly alert to the concerto's grand symmetry, in which the final movement spins exuberant variations on material from the first. Hall?/Elder ? review 2012-02-12T15:11:38Z

But if these soloists were slicker, they were duller, too, and there was less pungency in this chorus and orchestra’s securely massed sound. Music Review: Trinity Wall Street and Musica Sacra in ?Messiah? - Review 2011-12-21T22:43:12Z

This recording immortalizes one of the very best casts of vocal soloists who have gathered over the years on the Symphony stage. Review: CDs from Seattle Symphony, violinist James Ehnes 2010-12-16T05:01:05Z

It's always a nightmare for an orchestra when a soloist cancels at the last minute. Symphony, soloist shine in short-notice program change 2012-06-08T17:52:03Z

Shostakovich was represented by the Second Piano Concerto, with Kirill Gerstein as soloist – a rather dour performance of a work usually described as "lighthearted". Philharmonia/Gardner – review 2013-02-19T18:09:42Z

All four are talented soloists, and Ms. Isaacs and Mr. Stanley are currently leaping through their repertory like champions. At New York City Ballet, Works That Tell Stories and Don’t 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

The Pie Jesu, written for soprano or treble soloist, was sung here by the massed boys: a nice tribute to their fallen leader, whether or not so intended. Review: With a Tribute to an Esteemed Organist, Simon Rattle Settles Into New York 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

And this guest soloist was worth making room for. Bringuier does Shakespeare; a young cellist impresses 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

The assorted soloists carry themselves well, if a bit indistinctly; a Clark Terry evocation by the trumpeter Klaus Osterloh is among the more memorable statements. 2010-02-15T01:32:00Z

For a while, therefore, it was Gibbs's regular pianist Hans Koller – who knows the material intimately – who drifted most comfortably between support for the band and roving solos, until the other soloists found their feet. Mike Gibbs Band – review 2012-12-13T12:28:08Z

Trinity drew its roster of soloists — spreading the wealth, it featured 15 of them — from the ranks of its own choir, which includes male altos, whose whiteish, trumpeting tone isdistinct from that of female mezzo-sopranos. Music Review: Trinity Wall Street and Musica Sacra in ?Messiah? - Review 2011-12-21T22:43:12Z

“In a nice, clichéd way, it’s very Russian,” Mr. Botstein said about Stravinsky’s arrangement of “Song of the Volga Boatmen,” which opened the program with the bass-baritone Keith Miller as soloist. Music Review: American Symphony?s Stravinsky at Carnegie - Review 2012-01-22T23:07:34Z

The orchestra gently eggs the soloist on into the third section, inaugurated with frosty Adamsian fragments of trumpet fanfare. Two Coasts, Two Concertos: Adès and Adams Offer Piano Premieres 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

Many composers draw on the David and Goliath potential of the concerto genre to generate conflict between soloist and orchestra. Boston Symphony Shows Verve Even Without Levine 2011-03-16T06:11:47Z

The other works needed the soloist to sell them. Music Review: Vadim Repin and Itamar Golan at Alice Tully Hall 2012-03-19T21:51:00Z

And the quartet of vocal soloists, while committed, was not quite glamorous. Review: Verdi’s Requiem Recast as Memorial for Dmitri Hvorostovsky 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z

The soloist in Graham’s “Immediate Tragedy” has no one but herself to keep her upright. Review: Bent by the Pandemic, the Graham Company Dances On 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

The video of the American Ballet Theater soloist dancing, as a young girls’ voice read a rejection letter to a dance program in the background, went viral. Watch Gisele Bündchen Kick Butt in This New Under Armour Commercial 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

But Trinity drew its soloists, more than a dozen of them, from the ranks of its own choir. This Is the Best ‘Messiah’ in New York 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Even as it poses technical and lyrical challenges to its soloist, it treats listeners to a sonic wonderland, recalling the orchestrating ingenuity of Ravel and Bartók. French accent at SSO: Morlot to lead works by Ravel, Debussy, Dutilleux 2012-03-08T22:02:11Z

That soloist executed an assortment of poses — an extreme extension to the side, a tangle of arms, a roll to the floor — revealing little more than blank yearning. Dance Review: Francesca Harper’s ‘Art Prototype 2013’ Mocks Beauty Shows 2013-08-18T21:57:41Z

He also proved to be an adroit accompanist in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, which profited from Kolja Blacher’s masterful playing as soloist. Nurturing Musicians of Depth 2010-03-30T12:30:00Z

Adams has been exchanging emails and recordings with the pianist: "I'm very curious, with the soloist, about what his take on it is." John Adams to conduct own 'Harmonielehre,' Beethoven's 'Emperor' with Seattle Symphony Orchestra 2012-11-02T14:31:04Z

The baritone Scott Dispensa was the able soloist, although, as in the Vivaldi, the music making stopped short of the necessary poignancy. Music Review: Sacred Vivaldi, Somber and Elegant 2011-04-22T21:57:36Z

The chorus members are capable singers, but few have either the experience or personalities of soloists. L.A. Master Chorale brings sense of community to 'St. Matthew' Passion 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

His turning point as a soloist came from having roles created for him. Anthony Huxley, the Anti-Jock of City Ballet 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

But this mattered little because the soloist led from the front. LSO/Gergiev ? review 2011-03-03T22:29:01Z

Still, the superb German violinist Christian Tetzlaff proved an ideal soloist. Review: Andris Nelsons Makes New York Debut as Boston Symphony Leader 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

But what I'd never seen, until now, was a visiting soloist return to play among the ranks of the orchestra. Gerhardt/Philharmonia/Salonen 2010-05-26T21:15:00Z

It will be intriguing to hear Mendelssohn’s popular violin concerto, often performed with romantic swagger, interpreted by Edward Gardner and the Academy of Ancient Music with the violinist Alina Ibragimova as soloist on Sunday afternoon. Mostly Mozart’s Big Tent Embraces George Benjamin, Dai Fujikura and More 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

Textures are lean – 11 singers, including the soloists, 20 instrumentalists – but wonderfully precise, and the solo contributions, with soprano Susan Hamilton as Esther, are models of stylishness. Handel: Esther ? review 2012-05-17T21:35:01Z

Of the vocal soloists the soprano, Dominique Labelle, was splendid, and the tenor, Joseph Kaiser, countered her well. Music Review: Orchestra of St. Luke?s at Carnegie Hall 2012-04-15T21:04:44Z

The final section, “Diamonds,” is Balanchine’s homage to the grand 19th-century Petipa ballets, with their formal architecture of corps de ballet and soloists, their imperial pomp and classical purity. Dance Review: Three Gems of the Here and Now 2011-06-06T22:04:19Z

But very few have dared to dream sonic images of such magnetic power as those that Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho has conjured in her music for ensembles, orchestra, opera houses, electronics and soloists. A guide to Kaija Saariaho's music 2012-07-09T15:01:23Z

We're more like an ensemble of soloists who combine their individual sounds to rework existing pieces or compose or improvise our own. One from the heart: Charles Hazlewood's Paraorchestra 2012-06-27T18:31:01Z

When the war started, Myklukha was just a few months into her career as a soloist in at the National Opera and Ballet Theater in Kyiv. These Dancers Escaped the War. Their Journeys Are Just Beginning. 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

Taking over her parts is another spirited dancer: Georgina Pazcoguin, the New York City Ballet soloist who has appeared on Broadway and can blaze her way across a stage. Verdon and Fosse: ‘She Gave Him Stuff. He Gave Her Stuff.’ 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

She had worked as a soloist at churches and appeared in dinner theater and Off Broadway shows before she all but stumbled into radio in the early 1990s, when she was in her early 30s. Margaret Juntwait, the Voice of the Met on Radio, Dies at 58 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

There’s nothing unusual about a touring virtuoso soloist making repeat stops in a city that appreciates his or her music. Possibly ‘the most remarkable young pianist of our time’? Benjamin Grosvenor is back in Seattle 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

The subscription series begins the following night with the brilliant violinist Lisa Batiashvili will be the soloist in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, followed by a repeat performance of the Dvorak symphony. Classical Music Listings for Sept. 16-22 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

We like watching soloists perform amazing feats of athleticism with their fingers. Pianist Ohlsson brings elegance to a whiz-bang performance of massive Busoni

Crowe is outstanding in this expressive music, especially as the soloist in the first lesson. CD reviews: Joyce DiDonato looks at war, peace and the Baroque 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

Yet even though this is a company of soloists, both works exhibit an all-for-one mentality. Dance Review: Companhia Urbana de Dan?a, From Brazil - Review 2011-09-23T21:36:00Z

It was first performed last March in San Francisco, and composed for the St Lawrence Quartet, who were the soloists here. LSO/Adams – review 2013-01-29T15:06:18Z

The noted violinist Leonidas Kavakos was a clear yet faceless soloist, and the orchestra’s playing, too, lacked vividness: a black-and-white textbook reproduction of an Expressionist painting. Music Review: Bernard Haitink Leads the New York Philharmonic 2014-05-09T21:23:31Z

The young mezzo-soprano from Pennsylvania attracted attention two years ago when she was a soloist in a Bach cantata that Gustavo Dudamel conducted with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Singing best part of L.A. Opera's slapsticky 'Barber of Seville' 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

So were the other three soloists, each with highly distinctive voices and solid command of these tricky arias. Seattle Symphony’s ‘Messiah’ inspires hallelujahs 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z

Is there something holding her multi-directionality — as a sensitive soloist, a brash improviser, an inventive big band composer and a generous small ensemble collaborator — together? Perspective | Jazz pianist Satoko Fujii is practicing the art of the possible 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

But once a year, for its annual gala, the organization taps a few recent winners of its competitions and presents them as soloists with an orchestra. Review: 56 Years Presenting the Best of Young Artists 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

Vulnerable, ardent, defensive, Louise — danced by Brittany Pollack, a City Ballet soloist — encapsulates the inner conflicts that make “Carousel” so touching. ‘Carousel’ Dances Are a New Feather in the Enigmatic Justin Peck’s Cap 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

Paul Watkins was the soloist here, wonderfully contained and stoically insistent in a work that depicts the cello as a heroic, unflinching champion of individuality against the threats and menace of the orchestra. Prom 8: BBCSO/Adès - review 2013-07-18T09:58:27Z

After the 1980s, he was less active as a composer, although he occasionally performed with his quartet and recorded more library music as a soloist. Johnny Pearson obituary 2011-04-06T17:52:35Z

Quartets perform synchronized routines but the highest respect is reserved for the soloists, who show their prowess in accelerating five-minute sprints. Adding Razzle-Dazzle to a Gaucho Dance Style 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

A fine quartet of soloists, including the bright lyric soprano Mary Wilson and the magnanimous bass-baritone Kevin Deas, jostle for the spotlight with the orchestra, which shines in the rambunctious Symphony No. 102. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Boston Baroque, Rafal Blechacz, Alexandre Tharaud and More 2014-01-01T17:00:22Z

When he was a student at the San Francisco Ballet School, Gloria Govrin, a former New York City Ballet soloist, was in charge. Anthony Huxley, the Anti-Jock of City Ballet 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

The Boston Symphony Orchestra, accompanied by several soloists and three guest conductors, will perform three programs at Carnegie Hall. The Week Ahead 2012-03-03T22:06:02Z

Whatever the mayhem around us, all is still and magical as the soloist begins Once in Royal David's City. Christmas radio: stuffed with festive treats 2010-12-23T12:00:00Z

In highlights from a concert recorded on Tuesday, proceedings kick off with Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 2, with Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii on soloist duties. TV highlights 19/07/2013 2013-07-19T06:00:06Z

Yet the soloist and orchestra were never fully in dialogue. A reshuffled Baltimore Symphony Orchestra can’t quite fill the void after headliner’s exit

Scriabin composed the work in 1896 and was the soloist in the premiere the following year. Music Review: New York Philharmonic With Evgeny Kissin at Carnegie Hall 2012-05-24T21:51:03Z

The Owen poems are sung by the tenor and baritone soloists in movements accompanied by scaled-down orchestral forces, like a tender chamber orchestra within the main one. Music Review: ‘War Requiem’ by Britten, With an Angelic Touch 2014-05-02T21:20:34Z

Physically and spiritually, he was at the center, and the figure of Jesus, sung by Paul Max Tipton, barely stood out from the crowd of other soloists. Review: American Classical Orchestra, With an Unseasonal ‘Passion’ 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

On Friday at 8:30 p.m., the talented British conductor Edward Gardner leads a program of Strauss, Copland and Beethoven, with the baritone Thomas Hampson as the soloist. Opera & Classical Music Listings for July 18-24 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Over the weekend, Trinity Wall Street’s annual presentation of Handel’s “Messiah” posed similar provocations, as soprano soloists exchanged roles with tenors, altos with basses. Review: A Singer Scales Back Her Grand-Opera Voice 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

The guest soloist, the pianist André Watts, embarked upon a musical life at 4 and was catapulted to celebrity at 16 in a Carnegie Hall concert. Music Review: New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-12-31T00:30:22Z

Tasks include liaising with soloists and acting as go-between for ensemble and conductor. SSO's Emma McGrath: From Celtic folk to Bach 2012-01-13T03:49:03Z

But he interpreted the words to mean that he should play sparser chords with his left hand, allowing more harmonic freedom for other soloists. Book review: Herbie Hancock’s ‘Possibilities’

The ovation went on for a full five minutes while the orchestra and chorus stood in place, and the soloists, chorus directors and Muti took repeated bows. Triumphant 'Otello' marks Muti's return to CSO 2011-04-08T16:30:00Z

In England and Switzerland and the Netherlands, audiences treated him with deference, as an exotic and a master soloist. Music: Coleman Hawkins Outplays Himself in Savory Collection 2010-08-17T22:17:00Z

The easy vitality of the flautist Richard Adeney, who has died aged 90, made him a very popular soloist and recitalist. Richard Adeney obituary 2011-01-23T18:31:02Z

As part of Lincoln Center’s summer social-dance series, two American Ballet Theater talents, the soloist Cassandra Trenary and the principal James Whiteside, appear at Lincoln Center’s annual Midsummer Night Swing to dance a rumba. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

When the soloists join the choirs for the final movement, they bring with them those instrumental colours, together with fragments of the texts they have sung. An English Requiem 2010-08-11T21:00:00Z

In the music, scored for four soloists, a small choir and a chamber ensemble of Western instruments, human passions and the sounds of nature become one. Music Review: ‘Matsukaze,’ an Opera of Love and Mourning 2013-07-19T20:26:39Z

He will be replaced at the Hollywood Bowl by Edgar Moreau, a soloist who plays a more portable instrument: the cello. Have Pipe Organ, Will Travel. Or Maybe Not. 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

There was occasional slippage in ensemble among orchestra, chorus and soloists, but Mr. Haitink projected the spirit of the work beautifully. ArtsBeat: Lucerne, a Wagner City, Engages in Yearlong Affair With Brahms 2011-04-13T15:18:04Z

The soloists are the tenor Russell Thomas and the mezzo-soprano Elizabeth Bishop. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Jan. 17-23 2014-01-16T23:31:11Z

The eclectic, audacious score — for vocal soloists, chamber orchestra, rock band — combines angular modernism, ’60s-style rock, echoes of Weill, hints of Edwardian ballads, riffs on Bach chorales and more. Classical Playlist: Bach, Haydn, Seattle Symphony and More 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

From the start, “Incantations” is emphatically an ensemble piece rather than a heroic platform for a soloist. Review: Tony Malaby, Weaving Spells With Paloma Recio 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

He was also an accomplished jazz soloist, his creativity exemplified in two albums that he made for the Zephyr label, in a duo setting with the cornettist Warren Vaché. Derek Watkins obituary 2013-03-25T16:29:10Z

At a recent rehearsal, one of the dancers, Claire Kretzschmar — a City Ballet soloist — aimed her arms as if she were about to shoot a bow and arrow. ‘Seraphic Track Stars’ Dancing About Freedom at the Met 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

The work is defined by interaction between the live musicians and a mysterious woman in the film, whose actions appear to reflect the cello soloist. ArtsBeat: Dutch Composer Wins Grawemeyer Award 2012-11-26T03:00:14Z

Mr. Perlman’s program, in which he is both soloist and conductor, closes the season on May 14. ArtsBeat: Minnesota Orchestra Musicians to Play a 10-Concert Season 2013-12-13T20:55:40Z

It’s a mostly dissonant score, often understandably emotional and troubled, with long lyrical lines in the first two movements and skittering displays for the soloist in the finale. Hold the light sabers: This is John Williams off the big screen but still substantial at the Bowl 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

But the vocal soloists were mostly not on the same level. Review: At St. Ignatius Loyola, Bach’s Mass in All Its Elements 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

A soloist is one rank below the coveted level of principal. City Ballet Promotes Seven Dancers as Performances Resume 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z

It sounded nearly impossible, not least when the six soloists finally played together before the rehearsal broke. 2010-01-08T21:25:00Z

Mellow and unobtrusive, with a heavy debt to Minimalism and its rock-infused progeny, his music is at its best when he’s his own softly suggestive electric guitar soloist. Review: Mapplethorpe Inspires a Composer’s Meager Tribute 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

The most substantial work on the program was Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 1, notable Wednesday for a sumptuous, powerful, subtle performance by the soloist, Joyce Yang. New York Philharmonic Summertime Classics Series Opens 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

But the orchestra; the superb quartet of vocal soloists; the powerful, precise San Francisco Symphony Chorus; and the crisp Pacific Boychoir are part of a misbegotten theatrical presentation that confounds far more than it illuminates. Review: San Francisco Symphony Stages ‘Missa Solemnis’ With a Visual Component 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

As for now, Ms. Teuscher is still a soloist, not yet a principal. Devon Teuscher, a Poet in Ballet Shoes, Takes On ‘Swan Lake’ 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

Mr. Peck still dances with City Ballet as a soloist; for the last two years he’s also been its resident choreographer. Review: ‘Scherzo Fantastique’ Brims With Liberated Energy 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z

Anderson, the first African-American soloist to perform at the Metropolitan Opera, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and a Grammy lifetime achievement award. The National Museum of African American History and Culture 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

Lee Jarzembak, the tuba soloist, rumbled sonorously amid and atop an unhurried procession of vivid sounds, dispersed in painterly streaks and spurts. Music Review: The Many Paths of Japan?s Avant-Garde 2011-04-11T20:27:03Z

Wendy White, a veteran soloist who has a suit pending against Met over a fall she suffered when a piece of scenery broke in 2011, told the union, “This is the fight of your lives.” Met Opera Contract Talks Stumble to a Start 2014-05-05T21:14:40Z

Of course, there were bright spots, too, and one particularly reliable one: Emily Kikta, another tall soloist who moves big with a calm, confident lushness, continues to stand out in classical and contemporary works. The Brilliance and the Blahs of City Ballet. (And Then There’s Solange.) 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

The filler is the Choral Fantasia with Leon McCawley as piano soloist, done in a very grand manner, though also with great panache. Beethoven: Der Glorreiche Augenblick; Choral Fantasia – review 2012-06-07T21:43:01Z

Certain ranges of the piano’s strings are prepared with metal objects, creating percussive sounds that draw an arc to the other soloist. Music Review: Unsuk Chin Celebrated in Composer Portrait at Miller Theater 2014-03-16T20:54:53Z

The coming months will also bring a return to form for Carnegie Hall, which is slowly beginning to bring in not just the world’s top soloists, but leading ensembles as well, like the Berlin Philharmonic. Classical Music and Opera This Fall: 59 Programs, Premieres and More 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

Dubois’s “The Seven Last Words of Christ”; with soloists; David Close, organist and music director. Whiffs of Choral Ambrosia 2014-04-10T22:11:55Z

The orchestra radiated assurance and passion, with Mr. Manahan maintaining a keen balance among the soloists and their accompaniment. Music Review: Manhattan School of Music Chamber Sinfonia 2012-03-04T23:15:57Z

What the large and receptive audience got instead was a remarkably enjoyable "Messiah" with plenty of energy, strong soloists, and a Symphony Chorale that sang with zest and verve. Review: 'Messiah' at Benaroya features strong solos, magnificent music 2010-12-17T19:02:04Z

While she had been a standout vocal soloist at church, she had originally planned on going to college to study accounting. ‘I Could Barely Sing a High C’: Pretty Yende Finally Conquers Lucia 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

Hers was the second of three farewells by company soloists. From Ballet Theater, Some Goodbyes and a Promise for the Future 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

But his strictures seem not to apply to soloists. Music Review: St. Petersburg Philharmonic Plays Carnegie Hall 2014-02-17T22:48:40Z

The Yale chorus offered a fine collective sound, for the most part, but the soloists, drawn from its midst, were an uneven lot. Music Review: Juilliard415 Performs ‘St. John Passion’ 2014-04-07T20:57:41Z

Closely attuned to his soloist, Dausgaard turned frequently on the podium to watch Bronfman and to fine-tune details of their ensemble. Review: Pianist Yefim Bronfman and Seattle Symphony earn thunderous applause 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

Instead, nearly every ensemble member becomes part of a choir, with soloists, that is as persuasive a latter-day equivalent of the Greek chorus as we’re ever likely to see. Review: ‘Girl From the North Country’ Sets the Darkness Aglow 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

When his soloist got laryngitis, Mr. Hines figured out a way for her to sing — by transposing the work down three semitones. Christmas Without Music? Churches Are Finding a Way 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z

The oboist Stuart Breczinski vividly conveys a range of enigmatic moods and textures in “Ave Maris Stella”; the cellist Bryan Hayslett is the energetic soloist in two works for soloist and prerecorded cello tracks. Classical Playlist: Gluck, Jonathan Biss, Morton Feldman and More 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

He needs to be seen in an environment that presents him not as a virtuoso soloist but as the master of the massed chorale, and that’s what Mr. Rugoff and Ms. Hoptman have done. Art Review: A Mind Where Picasso Meets Looney Tunes 2011-01-27T22:41:49Z

Opened by 14-year-old soloist Lydia, from Nigeria, the simple, but emotive song packed a huge punch - particularly as the orchestra swelled for the finale. Stars shine on Queen's concert 2012-06-05T03:45:34Z

It's rare but refreshing to see a soloist from the first half of a concert sit among the audience for the second. Gerhardt/Philharmonia/Salonen 2010-05-26T21:15:00Z

Here it was possible to appreciate in great detail not only the superb work of the chorus and orchestra but also the fine singing of the soloists. Music Review: Vienna Philharmonic and Hagen Quartet in Salzburg 2012-07-31T21:36:27Z

Ravel’s “La Valse” and Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” frame a performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, featuring the formidable pianist Maria João Pires as soloist. Classical Music Listings for March 11-17 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Its strength is in its cumulative choreographic ingenuity, and the skill and musicality with which Mr. Ratmansky deploys through both large ensembles and soloists. Dance Review: The Sailor Who Fell Into Grace With the Wig-Wearing Nymphs 2010-09-19T22:07:00Z

“Namouna” was followed by Jerome Robbins’s “Four Seasons,” another jokey, deliberately entertaining ballet with a profusion of soloist roles and large ensembles. Dance Review: The Sailor Who Fell Into Grace With the Wig-Wearing Nymphs 2010-09-19T22:07:00Z

The chemistry between Mr. Maillot and the bright generation of soloists he found in Moscow did the rest. A New Calling Card for the Bolshoi Ballet 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

She joined the corps one year later, and was promoted to the rank of soloist in 2006, followed by principal dancer in 2012. New York City Ballet Unveils Designers for Its Fall Fashion Gala 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

The vocal lines are lyrical and mostly moderate: as clean, clear and calm as the voice of the soprano Sarah Shafer, a well-chosen soloist. Review: New York City Opera, a Quiet ‘Sunday Morning’ 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

Usually, a conductor and a soloist with interpretive discrepancies manage to “get together by persuasion or charm or even threats to achieve a unified performance,” he said. For Glenn Gould, Form Followed Fingers 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z

When the movement became an active dialogue between soloist and ensemble, Mr. Lisiecki’s playing mixed youthful impetuousness with mature pensiveness. Review: Philadelphia Orchestra Plays Music From Vienna 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

“The water was warm. This was very pleasant, and a great performance by the soloists. This is something I will remember,” Martin Zvonicek said. Prague opera lovers watch 'Don Giovanni' on rooftop - and in bath tubs 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor is not a work that flaunts virtuosity on the part of either soloist or orchestra. Music Review: Orchestral Extremes: From a Pizza Shop to Carnegie 2011-02-06T22:41:17Z

Often different groups or soloists are busy in different tempos on either side of the stage: adagio and allegro co-exist naturally. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Dance Company in ?Roaratorio? - Review 2011-12-08T23:13:25Z

Eschenbach, like Rostropovich, is a soloist turned conductor, with lots of ideas about music and spotty conducting ability, but Rostropovich conducted with such commitment and energy that it was easy not to notice. ‘There’s still high culture in America’: Why the National Symphony Orchestra went to Moscow 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

Not long after that, however, Mr. Lawrence entered the Army, and Ms. Gorme went on the nightclub circuit as a soloist until his return two years later. Eydie Gorme, ‘Blame It on the Bossa Nova’ Singer, Dies at 84 2013-08-11T12:29:01Z

For decades Mr. Ames performed as a soloist on stages in New York and around the world. Jerry Ames, Tap Dancer With Airy Style, Is Dead at 80 2011-02-17T04:59:27Z

In the Third Piano Concerto, the soloist was the brilliant British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, who played a demanding part with crisp articulation, beautiful shadings, keen attention to inner voices and tremendous imagination. Review: An Orchestral Odyssey Through Chaos and Beauty 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

On the podium was a partner thoroughly worthy of his soloist: Danish conductor Thomas Søndergård, in his Seattle debut. Cellist Baltacigil delights Seattle Symphony audience 2012-10-05T18:56:04Z

True, keeping the soloist from monopolizing the spotlight is an unusual, almost nihilistic approach to concerto writing. Music Review: When Soloists Don?t Necessarily Star 2011-04-15T23:01:47Z

But Mr. Gilbert — who loves the piece, as he wrote in a program note — had an ideal soloist in the brilliant violinist Lisa Batiashvili. Music Review: Philharmonic and Gerald Finley in ‘Il Prigioniero’ 2013-06-07T20:26:14Z

Only in Beethoven’s ebullient finale, with its playful rhythms and vigorous accents, did conductor and soloist finally arrive on the same musical page. Pianist and conductor diverge, clash during their BSO debuts 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z

Some works require a simultaneous coolness and quickness, and Mr. Peck, who is also a soloist, achieved that in “N.Y. Export.” Review: Peck Adapts Andersen, and Good Fights Evil Amid Fine Plumage 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

Anderson, the first African-American soloist to perform at the Metropolitan Opera, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and a Grammy lifetime achievement award. The National Museum of African American History and Culture 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Botstein is joined by six vocal soloists and the Bard Festival Chorale. Classical Music Listings for Oct. 14-20 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

"A lot of conductors' egos don't like the soloist to have too much real estate on the program," he explains. At SSO: Adams' 'Doctor Atomic Symphony' 2011-12-29T21:18:04Z

The piece, which had its world premiere in Berlin in 1895, entails an orchestra of more than 100, a vast choir, choral soloists, multiple harps, a pipe organ and additional offstage percussion and brass. Gilbert E. Kaplan, Publisher and Improbable Conductor, Dies at 74 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

By contrast, the Piano Concerto No 4 in G major was disappointing; soloist Dejan Lazic´ was fluent enough, but self-indulgent to the point of waywardness, both in his tempi and his anachronistic cadenzas. ACO/Tognetti 2010-08-31T22:00:00Z

Nothing here was more heartening than the fervor of the corps and soloists; it’s been the hallmark of all of Mr. Peck’s ballets for City Ballet. New York City Ballet’s Spring Was Full of Revelations 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

Britten sets passages from the Latin liturgy of the requiem mass for chorus and orchestra, joined by a soprano soloist in crucial episodes. Music Review: Oratorio Society of New York at Carnegie Hall 2013-04-23T20:56:32Z

The soloists were the veteran violinist Pinchas Zukerman and, in her Carnegie Hall debut, Amanda Forsyth, principal cellist of the National Arts Center Orchestra in Ottawa. Music Review: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Visits Carnegie Hall 2014-03-21T21:42:06Z

In the Bruch, Morlot was an exemplary conductor, keeping the orchestra closely with the soloist, never overshadowing him and always in tune with Bell's interpretation. Classical rock star Joshua Bell thrills Seattle audience 2012-01-11T19:05:48Z

Potential confusion will be offset by the fact that “The Four Seasons” and “Buenos Aires” are a series of concertos for solo violin and chamber orchestra, and different soloists will handle each one. Send 2016 on its way with ‘Four Seasons,’ Seattle Symphony and 2 tango dancers 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

On Wednesday night at David Geffen Hall, Mr. Trifonov was a brilliant, uncommonly poetic soloist in that composer’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and Piano Concerto No. 2. Review: Daniil Trifonov Brings Subtlety to Rachmaninoff 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

But even without knowing this, most listeners, I think, will intuitively sense when the soloist in Mozart’s slow movements becomes the pianist equivalent of a prima donna. Curious About Classical Music? Here’s Where to Start 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

My notes are peppered with the word “beautiful,” starting with the music, from Philip Glass’s “Tirol Concerto” for piano and orchestra, with the exceptionally fluid soloist Lisa Emenheiser. Review | Dutch masters of dance: Rebellious perfection 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

While concert soloists are commonly expected to perform from memory, it is very rare for a chamber ensemble to do so. Critic’s Notebook: Chiara Quartet Records Brahms by Heart 2014-03-28T21:55:47Z

Police and investigators reported at his trial that the Bolshoi soloist felt he was being passed over for roles and was upset that his ballerina girlfriend, Anzhelina Vorontsova, was not being promoted. Nearly blind from an acid attack, the Bolshoi Ballet’s director still has an eye for beauty

The tenor and bass-baritone soloists sang in the second performance, on Saturday, and are expected to appear on Wednesday. At 100, the Cleveland Orchestra May (Quietly) Be America’s Best 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z

The performance features a strong roster of vocal soloists and the Bard Festival Chorus. A Busy Week for Yannick Nézet-Séguin 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

Big vibrato, big gestures – he's an old-fashioned soloist of sorts, and turned one of the scariest concertos in the business into a work of expressive, emotive necessity. The New Century – review 2012-06-01T16:11:15Z

From the age of five, Holloway was a featured soloist, although she later said: "I hated my voice because I sounded like a grown woman, not a child." Loleatta Holloway obituary 2011-03-24T18:17:38Z

You frequently see soloists conducting from the keyboard or with violin in hand, joining a long tradition but not quite freeing themselves from their instrumental origins. Soloist-turned-conductor impresses with NSO’s Mahler 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

That same year she was promoted to soloist rank and, in a new batch of roles, showed that she was capable of far more than bright soubrette cheer and technical brilliance. A Full-Circle Mentor Moment 2011-01-23T02:30:15Z

Improvising on the ragas — the melodic germs of Indian music — that form the work’s core, Anoushka Shankar, the composer’s daughter and a proselytizer for his music, was a magnetic soloist, her sound sprightly and sly. Review: A Concerto in Which East Meets West, and Peace Reigns 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

Finley premiered the version for piano in 2014, using the rhymed English translation by Edward FitzGerald, “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam,” and he is the skilled soloist here in the orchestral version. CD reviews: Late works by late composers Rautavaara, Henze 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

So observes the narrator in “The Cranes Dance,” Meg Howrey’s new novel about an emotionally unhinged soloist in a New York company. The Week Ahead: July 15 — 21 2012-07-13T15:03:38Z

On Friday, the Philadelphia Orchestra will perform Florence Price’s Symphony No. 3 and Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto, which is making its Carnegie debut with Beatrice Rana as the soloist 187 years after its premiere. Clara Schumann and Florence Price Get Their Due at Carnegie Hall 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

Phil, Master Choral and stellar vocal soloists in an exuberant performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. After five years of Gustavo Dudamel, what's next? 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

The star of the evening was the young soprano soloist, Emalie Savoy. Music Review: Tritle Leads Oratorio Society in ?Paulus? 2010-05-11T22:12:00Z

Arthur Campbell was the eloquent soloist, sounding especially strong in his rich lower register. Music Review | North/South Chamber Orchestra: New Works by Max Lifchitz and Others at Merkin Concert Hall 2010-03-09T22:31:00Z

They are together and not, two soloists who periodically sync up and hold hands and lean on each other in odd ways. Jen Rosenblit and Vanessa Anspaugh Perform at Live Arts 2012-02-20T15:26:04Z

Anthony McGill, the Philharmonic’s extraordinary principal clarinetist, was the soloist in an elegant account of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto. Review: The New York Philharmonic Pays Tribute to Orlando 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

The pressures dancers face rang true for Ellen Bar, a soloist with the New York City Ballet, who attended the film’s New York premiere with 30 dancers. For Dancers, ?Black Swan? Is a Cautionary Tale 2011-01-07T21:13:52Z

Having toured as Beyoncé’s bassist and assistant musical director, she also has her own career as a soloist and songwriter, not to mention a new, much younger audience. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

Jurowski positioned the soloists behind the instrumentalists; it more or less worked in Pierrot Lunaire, where the voice is sometimes one strand of the instrumental argument, but not in the Four Last Songs. LPO/Jurowski 2010-06-16T21:00:00Z

Picture this: A New York City Ballet soloist, unusually radiant with creamy skin, eloquent feet and a vintage luster to her drama, watches in horror as her body begins to deteriorate. Kathryn Morgan Uses Social Media as She Gears for Her Return 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

She trained at the Prague State Conservatory, before becoming a soloist at the city's National Theatre Ballet company. ENB's principal dancer to retire 2014-02-03T15:16:26Z

None of the regulars from the early days remain on the roster, partly because so many of the original musicians have become soloists or directors of their own groups. Music Review: Period Music, Played With Freewheeling Touches 2010-10-16T01:24:00Z

The soloist never stops from first note to last in the concerto's 27 minutes, which is played without a break between the five movements. A symphonic evening with Morlot and the French masters 2012-03-16T17:21:04Z

There's no sense of confrontation between soloist and orchestra, or of the orchestra accompanying the violin. Feldman: Violin and Orchestra – review 2013-05-16T21:14:01Z

For the dramatic “Passion,” the choristers had memorized their parts, enabling them to sing while moving about in the space and interacting with the soloists, the audience and one another. The Berlin Radio Choir Sings Rachmaninoff’s Vespers 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

On Thursday, the Philharmonic performed Nielsen’s Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra with Anthony McGill, the new principal clarinetist, as soloist. New York Philharmonic Responds to Attacks in Paris 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

Elsewhere, Handel’s runs and ornaments challenged the soloists, and both Ms. Krull and the tenor Randall Bills sometimes sacrificed richness of timbre to keep up with the notes. Music Review: American Classical Orchestra Performs Handel Rarities 2014-03-22T02:05:28Z

For all the woven elegance and keen synthesis of its arrangements, the reason to hear the SFJazz Collective is its soloists. Live Jazz: 5 April Standouts, From Andrew Cyrille to Linda May Han Oh 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

As a soloist, Mr. Harrell, with his restrained and meticulous sound, may connect with Trip in obvious ways. Tom Harrell at the Village Vanguard 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

The orchestra consists of only two dozen musicians, but they do not provide just an accompaniment – everybody is challenged to their musical and technical limits, as is the soloist. The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music? 2012-11-29T20:00:02Z

In 1965, as a young soloist, Mr. Nagy was sent to the International Ballet Competition in Varna, Bulgaria, where he won a silver medal. Ivan Nagy, Star of American Ballet Theater, Is Dead at 70 2014-02-26T01:29:55Z

Marilyn Moore was the soloist and, even though she was armed with a big, rich voice, she was able to blend easily with the choral sound when necessary. In ‘Annelies’ D.C. premiere, music based on Anne Frank’s diary doesn’t reflect her voice

And it was hard to fully discern the qualities of the four admirable soloists: The soprano Zarina Abaeva sang with focused, radiant tone that sometimes seemed thin, or was that impression enhanced by the amplification? Review: A Must-Hear Maestro Leads ‘Requiem’ at the Shed 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

But more memorable than those imperfections was van Zweden’s refreshingly measured treatment of the orchestra, particularly in its support for the vocal soloists. Review: The Philharmonic’s ‘Passion’ Is a Surprising Achievement 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

The lineup includes Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 and Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2, with the excellent Julia Fischer as the soloist. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Feb. 14-20 2014-02-13T23:37:00Z

Counterbalancing that process is its opposite: a group phrase adopted by a soloist. Review: American Ballet Theater in Mark Morris’s Take on Manners 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

The 2022-23 season, which is scheduled to run from September to June, will feature the presenter’s typical variety of soloists and ensembles, but with an earnest focus on female musicians and composers. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z

Cincinnati’s performance boasts the acclaimed clarinetist Anthony McGill, of the New York Philharmonic, as one of the featured soloists. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in November 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

There’s not much art in methodology, not inherently, so a great soloist works past it without quite letting it go. Playlist: Making Mischief Along With the Melodies 2010-02-27T03:47:00Z

To further set off the soloist, Mr. Corigliano scores the work just for string orchestra, with some final brass flourishes. Review: NY Phil Biennial’s Ambitious Wrap-Up, From Boulez to Bolcom 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

Pushing boundaries is something of a habit for Mr. Whiteside, 32, who joined American Ballet as a soloist in 2012 and became a principal a year later. He’s a Ballet Dancer. And a Singer. And a Drag Queen. 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

The cello doesn’t quite lead the orchestra, but its music keeps being echoed within the ensemble; the soloist is something like a diamond in a ring, supported by and glinting onto its setting. Review: A Chinese Concerto and a Romantic Classic Gaze Back 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

In its place we got a sound that was often almost lugubrious, a lot of oddly murky textures, and heavy, heavy playing from the NSO’s soloists. Conductor Juraj Valcuha takes NSO program to a near-slog 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

His program here was commonplace and weighed down with warhorses: Dvorák’s Cello Concerto with Johannes Moser as soloist and Sibelius’ First Symphony. The next new Finnish star conductor takes the stand in Disney Hall 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

Mr. Güra’s understanding of the role of the Evangelist matches that of his finest peers, and the other soloists are admirable. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2016 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

Gardiner and his soloist Lars Vogt carefully emphasised both the score's centrality to the concerto tradition and its pivotal nature, peering back towards Schumann, yet also anticipating the grander statements of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov. Czech Philharmonic/Gardiner 2010-08-30T10:51:00Z

If there was a highlight, it was Caroline Shaw’s self-effacing violin concerto, “Lo,” with the composer as soloist. The Shift Festival: A Reincarnation, With Cherry Blossoms 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

Anchoring the program is Steve Reich’s “Cello Counterpoint” from 2003, in which the live soloist weaves through the kinetically sparkling texture of seven recorded cello lines. Cellist in an Echo Chamber, Echo Chamber 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

Fewer people than in the past view the chance to hear a star soloist, rising conductor and orchestra in popular repertoire on a warm summer night as a can’t-miss event. Yuja Wang, NSO play to enthusiastic but small crowd at Wolf Trap 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z

The result was a kind of sophisticated modern sparkle from the soloist cutting through a forceful orchestra with the skill of a master sushi chef intent on cultivating the subtle flavor of freshness. Beethoven speaks, boldly, with help from a French pianist in his Hollywood Bowl debut 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

Among the soloists, perhaps the most unusual was Billie Jean King, who appeared with the orchestra in a 1988 children’s concert in which she played the timpani by bouncing tennis balls off them. Dino Anagnost, 67, Dies; Led Little Orchestra Society 2011-04-03T16:31:55Z

The concerto is also a good fit for the opening-night guest, 27-year-old Joshua Roman, former principal cellist with the symphony and now a renowned soloist. Symphony season breaks boundaries 2011-09-15T01:09:42Z

Some principals and soloists will pull a stem from the bouquet to give to their male partners. When presenting a bouquet to a ballerina, don’t trip! 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

He quickly developed the reputation of being able to win over temperamental soloists who drove other conductors to distraction. Jeffrey Kahane leaves L.A. Chamber Orchestra as master musician and mensch 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

When Amsterdam’s storied Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra lost a soloist to a last-minute cancellation during a tour of Mexico City, he was invited to play. New York Philharmonic Taps Jaap van Zweden as Its Next Maestro 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

Mr. Weiss conducted an alluring performance, with David Bowlin as the brilliant violin soloist, traversing his complicated part with ferocious intensity. Music Review: Oberlin Conservatory Plays at DiMenna Center and Carnegie 2013-01-21T22:22:40Z

But the Monk Space in Koreatown just put on such a show — with soloists who “offered a fascinating look at the inner workings of musical life in L.A.” Essential Arts & Culture: Chicago architecture biennial, 'The Red Shoes' hits L.A. and more PST: LA/LA 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

A slimmed-down orchestra then provided sensitive support to veteran soloist Pinchas Zukerman, his tone grown steely with age, in an unusually probing and introspective account of Mozart’s brash and youthful Violin Concerto No. 5. Budapest Festival Orchestra at Strathmore 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z

Otherwise, it was a solid, often fervent enough rendering of a piece that notoriously stretches the vocal resources of chorus and vocal soloists alike to almost unreasonable limits.  With a nod to the L.A. protests, Master Chorale rips into Beethoven's search for peace amid chaos 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

Eccentric and enigmatic, she was lauded as a sublime soloist and a future star only to recede into obscurity, or as she called it, “unplanned oblivion.” Celebrating Carmelita Maracci, Who ‘Took the Girdle Off Ballet’ 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

Mr. Evans joined City Ballet in 1988 and was named a soloist in 1991 and a principal four years later, becoming only the second black dancer in the company’s history to hold that position. Albert Evans, Ebullient City Ballet Dancer, Is Dead at 46 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

He played a Saint-Saëns concerto in a minor concert in 1956, but a greater honor came in 1959, when the conductor Charles Munch asked him to be the soloist for a subscription concert. Joseph Silverstein, Longtime Boston Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster, Dies at 83 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

The orchestra made up of 31 soloists was cited by the award panel as “the Stradivarius of modern music and has inspired the greatest composers of our time to create new masterpieces since the 1970s.” Iggy Pop, Ensemble Intercontemporain win Polar Music Prize 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

Next month he will be releasing more music as Cabra the soloist, but he’s quick to state that he’s doing this “without any expectations.” Visitante, half of Calle 13, is no more. Meet Cabra. 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z

But the music was a revelation: two great piano concertos by Mozart and Beethoven, and a stellar piano soloist who also proved a nimble conductor from the keyboard. Seattle Symphony welcomes an audience back to Benaroya Hall for the first time in 14 months 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

The concert opened with a colorful account of Bartok’s “Hungarian Sketches,” followed by a scintillating Bartok Third Piano Concerto with the brilliant Yefim Bronfman as soloist. At Salzburg Festival, Musicians Tap Their Inner Mozarts and Schuberts 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z

Three leading couples are flanked by three female soloists and six male-female couples in various hierarchical arrangements. Dance Review: Pennsylvania Ballet’s Triple Bill 2014-05-11T21:31:32Z

Chamber Orchestra held its first benefit tied to the Chinese New Year, raising approximately $535,000 with a dinner and concert program featuring Chinese soloists. SoCal arts groups courting a new donor source: Chinese Americans 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

He and Sherwood were set to be soloists in an Oct. Atlanta Symphony Orchestra struggles during second lockout in two years

Jennifer Check was a stirring soprano soloist, bringing the work’s inherent drama to the fore. Music Review: ‘Defiant Requiem,’ at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-05-01T21:08:27Z

So really it's not surprising that someone who spends his downtime playing — and arranging — nearly impossible-to-play piano pieces, is also famous as a composer for creating daunting parts for soloists. Composer Thomas Adès devotes his downtime in L.A. to ... rehearsing 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

The orchestra was better engaged in a spellbinding account of Berg's violin concerto, in which Tai Murray proved an undemonstrative but effective soloist. National Youth Orchestra/Kristjan J?rvi ? review 2011-01-06T21:44:01Z

Before Barber’s death, in 1981, only one major soloist—Isaac Stern, with Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic—had recorded it. CD Notes: Keith Jarrett’s “Barber/Bartók” 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

On paper, this week’s New York Philharmonic program had plenty going for it: balance, an up-and-coming conductor, an established soloist. Review: A Rising Star Debuts With the Philharmonic 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

And that’s how the “St. Matthew Passion” came across on Thursday at Carnegie Hall, with Bernard Labadie leading the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, along with three choirs and a half-dozen soloists. Review: A ‘St. Matthew Passion’ Balances Grandeur and Calm 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

In Symphony No. 12, Glass creates a freer, more expressive singing line and, rather than employing an operatic soloist as usual, has given the vocal part to West African pop star Angélique Kidjo. With world premiere of his thrilling 12th Symphony, Philip Glass continues to intrigue 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z

Two tall women bring the precision and speed of the Balanchine training: Savannah Lowery is a New York City Ballet soloist on leave for the tour, and Kaitlyn Gilliland spent years with that company. Twyla Tharp is marking her 50-year anniversary by looking ahead 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

A particularly zealous fan on Saturday pelted the soloists and conductor with flowers. Muti and the CSO at Carnegie Hall: Feel the love 2011-04-17T20:27:00Z

On top of the stresses of living abroad and learning a foreign language, she faced rivalry from other students when she was awarded soloist roles. Bolshoi Ballet Academy to see first U.S. graduate 2012-01-31T12:40:50Z

She credits her studio time with Kathleen Tracey, a City Ballet repertory director and former soloist, as being “very instrumental in getting me to where I am now with my technique,” Phelan said. What Is the Power of Unity Phelan’s Dancing? ‘I’m Clay.’ 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

The only serious faults lay in the work of some vocal soloists, but they were the least of what the evening was about. ArtsBeat: Mahler Megasymphony: The Onslaught 2012-02-19T18:26:18Z

Harvey, who had motor neurone disease, worked on experimental pieces with electronics as well as writing for orchestras, soloists and choirs. Jonathan Harvey, composer, dies 2012-12-06T10:04:51Z

It is, at least, another chance to see Ms. Körbes, the former New York City Ballet soloist who recently announced plans to retire from Pacific Northwest next June. Pacific Northwest Ballet Presents ‘Debonair’ 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

Soprano soloist Maria Mannisto sang agreeably, with clean tone and sympathetic phrasing. Impressive guest turn by symphony’s former principal horn |Classical review 2013-05-03T18:32:51Z

But it is a work for string quartet, though one that recruits a baritone soloist, Roderick Williams, too. Williams/Doric Quartet 2010-05-03T20:45:00Z

It's effectively a cantata telling the biblical story of Jacob wrestling with the Angel, with tenor and countertenor soloists and a chorus. Top of the Proms 2011 2011-07-07T20:30:02Z

In "Arenal," men and women perform energetic, entwining duos, trios and quartets to Mediterranean songs — in counterpoint to a soloist who weaves through them with more mournful, emphatic gestures. Dance review: Artful, brooding work from Spain's Compa?ia Nacionial de Danza 2010-04-23T19:40:00Z

This time David Aaron Carpenter was the excellent soloist in the concerto. Critic’s Notebook: Spring for Music Festival at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-13T22:06:48Z

The soloists joined forces for a lively rendition of Stephen Schwartz’s lighthearted “Bread” from the musical “The Baker’s Wife.” Music Review: Mirror Visions Ensemble at Merkin Concert Hall 2012-05-23T21:48:10Z

His balance between rigour and expressiveness exactly mirrors Berg's music; Anna Prohaska is the soloist, just a bit too robust for my taste, but the Vienna Philharmonic is on its most attentive form. Mahler: Das Klagende Lied; Berg: Lulu Suite – review 2013-03-14T21:50:02Z

He composed prolifically for chamber ensembles and instrumental soloists and created a substantial and varied catalog of vocal works. Milton Babbitt, Composer, Dies at 94 2011-01-30T03:00:14Z

Davis's name was still down as president for another set-up dear to his heart: the Hattori Foundation which supports young instrumental soloists and ensembles aged 15 to 27. Juan Diego Flórez and friends; Ksenija Sidorova and Thomas Gould – review 2013-04-27T23:07:16Z

But a soloist to the core, Jimmy doesn’t ask for approval from the conductor. ‘Better Call Saul’ Recap: Season 2, Episode 3: Lone Star State of Mind 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

Yefim Bronfman, the burly soloist in the Brahms, is one of the few pianists who can make this bruising concerto seem like child’s play. Chicago Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and Beyond 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

At Thursday’s gala performance, the American Ballet Theater soloist Misty Copeland performs, as does Mr. Richardson, one of the great dancers of his generation. A Rich Heritage With a Club Pulse 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z

Last weekend, at a tennis tournament in Hawaii, a male soloist accidentally proclaimed German supremacy, traumatizing several tennis players by singing a version of the German national anthem once prized by the Nazis. “Deutschland über Alles” and “America First,” in Song 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

On Sunday afternoon the orchestra’s music director Andris Nelsons will conduct Copland’s pensive “Quiet City” then take on Beethoven’s mighty Ninth Symphony with four appealing vocal soloists and the excellent Tanglewood Festival Chorus. Classical Music Listings for Aug. 26-Sept. 1 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Troy Schumacher, a soloist with New York City Ballet, founded this company in 2010 to create contemporary ballets with a focus on collaboration. 7 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

Donizetti demands three strong soloists, and three strong soloists are here, with a real sense of what ought to be at stake. Review: ‘Poliuto,’ a Rare Donizetti Bel Canto Thriller 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

The vocal soloists were talented, particularly the countertenor Daniel Moody, his upper register as plangent as a clarinet’s in his Agnus Dei aria. Juilliard415 and Yale Schola Cantorum Perform a Mass 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

Dett ingeniously wove spirituals into the typical oratorio structure of soloists and chorus expounding a biblical story with orchestra. Review: ‘The Ordering of Moses’ Shines at Riverside Church 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z

She gives them many chances to reveal themselves as improvising soloists, and her rhythmically intricate choreography, chasing that magic, nearly pushes them past the pulse of the music in spots. Review: Ayodele Casel Returns to the Joyce With ‘Chasing Magic’ 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

The program began with a solid but uninspired account of Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1, with Garrick Ohlsson as soloist. The soul of Russia, by way of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z

To this, you add a nice variety of repertoire, designed to show off that voice in a multitude of ways — and giving the soloist every opportunity to shine. A starry, spangled season-opener at Seattle Symphony 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

With her thoroughly enjoyable “Shadow Lands,” the former San Francisco Ballet soloist put forth a vision of ballet form that’s futuristic and fresh. Review | The ballet dancers dived into the ball pit. That’s when the evening really took off. 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

Until recently, a three-night stand of extraordinary concerts, complete with soloists and chorus, might have seemed enough for a major touring orchestra. Chicago Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and Beyond 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

There were no awkward pauses; soloists moved into place before their entrances, and the transitions were nearly seamless. Hallelujah! A bright, brilliant ‘Messiah’ at Seattle Symphony 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

He played a concert as a soloist with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra: new versions of Mr. Shorter’s compositions from his own records and others’, many of them not part of his usual repertory. Review: Wayne Shorter Goes Solo With the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

The soloists at times play with a credit card, a metal sheet or, in Ms. Heller’s case, the slap of a tongue against the bassoon’s bocal. Megaphones Up, the Philharmonic Opens With Two Young Voices 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

Dvorák's somber Stabat Mater was given a rare performance Wednesday night by the Czech Philharmonic, the Prague Philharmonic Choir and four vocal soloists at the Valley Performing Arts Center. Seeking an inner light amid darkness of Dvorak's Stabat Mater 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

Now in its ninth season, the company met the challenges of this masterwork gamely and successfully, though decent principals and a strong corps didn't always compensate for uneven dancing at the midrank, soloist level. Quibbles aside, a strong 'Swan Lake' from Los Angeles Ballet 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

Hahn, the artist-in-residence at the Chicago Symphony, has long thought about her role in broader terms than many superstar soloists. Hilary Hahn Practices in Public, Wherever and However She Is 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z

They watch a soloist in the center or an encounter that looks like an aestheticized scuffle, combining the weight-sharing of contact improvisation with more aggressive intent. Review: BalletBoyz Get Ready to Rumble 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

There were also questionable decisions by the vocal soloists. Cobbling Together a Christmas Music Marathon 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

The unshakably reliable Los Angeles Master Chorale was on hand, along with three fine vocal soloists. A 'Creation' for a troubled planet: The beginning (and end?) of the world in music and video 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

The founder and first violinist of the Arditti Quartet is one of the most prodigious soloists of his generation. REDCAT champions cultural ambition and exchange with fall lineup 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

But the vibrancy of a work’s place in the repertory is reflected by the number of recordings it receives, and “name” soloists have not rushed to take the Concerto’s measure. CD Notes: Keith Jarrett’s “Barber/Bartók” 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

As Bach did in his Passions, Tippett used arias, recitatives and choruses to carry the story, with a male soloist as narrator. Music Review: Collegiate Chorale Sings Tippett and Bruckner at Carnegie 2012-02-05T22:40:45Z

The soloist, Benjamin Schmid, was nobly patrician throughout, but prone to occasional slips in intonation and notably unsmiling in the last movement. Philharmonia/Lazarev ? review 2010-12-15T23:20:01Z

Ballamy emerged as a soloist in a lyrical class of his own during his time with the Loose Tubes big band. This week's new live music 2013-01-19T06:00:03Z

On Thursday night, the program offered Tchaikovsky’s first two piano concertos with two young Russian-born soloists, both under 30 and both prizewinners in major competitions. First night of SSO ‘Tckaikfest’ a runaway hit 2014-01-17T19:05:59Z

Holding his coalitions together was not always easy; in opera companies, for example, soloists have different priorities from chorus members. Alan S. Gordon, Longtime Union Leader, Dies at 70 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

The many who stayed were treated to an excellent performance, achingly sustained in the opening Andante, vibrantly taut and energetic in the Allegros, featuring virtuoso soloists from the orchestra. Review: The Philharmonic Revisits an Early Triumph of Its Director 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

I only wish he could break his habit of facing his soloists and mouthing their words as they sing, an attention-grabbing affectation, and also a distraction. Review: ‘Theodora,’ Once a Handel Flop, Is Celebrated Anew 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

Mr. Labadie used the traditional quartet of soloists, who shared an intensely dramatic, often operatic approach to their texts. Music Review: ?Messiah? Season, in All of Its Hues 2010-12-16T16:27:17Z

The Saturday night program was part of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s Baroque Conversations series, with the cello soloists also conducting baroque concertos. 109 cellos and one obsession in Walt Disney Concert Hall 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

The Ottensamers are active as chamber musicians and soloists, but the Clarinotts occupy a growing place within their busy musical lives. When One Instrument Speaks in Three Voices 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Kenney was presented by the Concert Artists Guild, an organization that promotes and manages young soloists and ensembles. Review: Alexi Kenney at Weill Recital Hall 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

It's a little hard to tell exactly what kind of guitar-strumming soloist Charlie is because the songs she performs early on all have to do with her desire to be a star. 'Breaking Through' falls into cliched musical traps at Pasadena Playhouse 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

In the music world, the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics are considered the very top rank, able to command the choice conductors and superlative soloists. Vienna Philharmonic purrs back to life after pandemic pause 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

“There’s a lonely quality to the soloist world, and especially because I didn’t go to college,” she said. A Violinist Prepares Her Next Star Turn: Festival Leader 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

Unlike soloists and chamber groups, orchestras are particularly ill-suited for the virtual performances made necessary by the pandemic. Online, Simon Rattle Gives a Preview of His Future in Munich 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z

Or, better yet, he said, “The film is a concerto soloist that I’m working with.” ‘The Tree of Life’ Unfurls, With a Live Orchestra and Choir 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

The concluding marathon concerts Saturday and Sunday in USC’s Bovard Auditorium were designed to best show several of the festival’s soloists’ individuality. 109 cellos and one obsession in Walt Disney Concert Hall 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

The way Adès pitches the violin writing high up, almost daring the soloist to sustain it, recalls the extreme tessitura for the soprano role of Ariel in his opera “The Tempest.” The Boston Symphony Finds Surprises and Strengths in New Music 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

The performance will feature such noted Chicago soloists as trumpeter Art Davis and bassist Kelly Sill. Jazz: Piano a rare find in Bix's hometown 2011-05-02T21:50:00Z

He is Joseph Lin, 32, a Harvard University graduate who is a professor at Cornell University and an active soloist and chamber musician with a strong interest in Chinese culture. ArtsBeat: New First Violinist for Juilliard String Quartet 2010-10-21T20:04:00Z

Mary Elizabeth Mackenzie, an agile soprano with a lively, flexible interpretive personality, was the communicative soloist in the vocal works. Music Review: Roaming Freely (and Magically) in a Musical Universe 2011-05-02T22:23:55Z

Second principal violinist Elisa Barston is in the spotlight as soloist. The Week Ahead: 'Wittenberg' and Ralph Lemon are A&E highlights 2010-11-14T05:01:00Z

She joined the Bolshoi as a soloist in 1964 and, rare for a newcomer, was immediately allowed to accompany the troupe on tours of Japan and Italy, where she sang at La Scala. Elena Obraztsova, Jewel of the Bolshoi Opera, Is Dead at 75 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z

Joshua Bell was the soloist in this work, which was even more fully in Mr. Pappano’s court than the Mozart. | New York Philharmonic: New York Philharmonic Unleashes Operatics Hidden in Brahms 2010-04-10T00:10:00Z

Then there was the Grieg Piano Concerto with Stephen Hough as soloist. BBC Philharmonic/Noseda 2010-09-27T22:40:00Z

He envisioned a career as a concert pianist and made his debut in 1945 at Town Hall in New York, as the first black instrumental soloist there. A Composer’s Final Work Contains ‘Visions’ of an American Master 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

An internationally praised violin soloist, Sinkovsky will play that instrument in “The Four Seasons,” the perennial Vivaldi favorite. Dmitry Sinkovsky plays violin, sings and conducts as part of Vivaldi project at Seattle Symphony 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

The soloists, 13 in all, were drawn from the ranks of the vibrant choir. Music Review: ‘Messiah’ at St. Thomas and Alice Tully Hall 2012-12-17T05:15:05Z

Each allowed soloists from Mr. Christie’s ensemble to shine. Music Review: Les Arts Florissants Bring French Baroque to Lincoln Center 2012-10-22T04:20:05Z

He believes the finest soloists reveal themselves in such a deeply personal way that they create a psychological connection with their listeners. Listen up: ‘How to Listen to Jazz’ 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

The debunkers include scientists, modern luthiers and some younger soloists who can’t afford old master instruments and make a virtue of the new. News Analysis: The Value of Valuable Violins 2012-01-29T04:17:15Z

The work of the vocal soloists was not quite on the same exalted level. Review: New York Philharmonic Dives Into Brahms’s ‘German Requiem’ 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

Green pulled back to mix, beautifully, with his fellow soloists. Review: Two Years Later, a Beethoven Cycle Reaches Its Finale 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

The American Symphony Orchestra, the Collegiate Chorale, the Manhattan Girls Chorus and a large cast of terrific soloists offered an enjoyable performance of a work that is by and large entertaining. Music Review: Strauss’s ‘Feuersnot’ via Leon Botstein at Carnegie Hall 2013-12-18T22:30:36Z

She cherishes as a career highlight singing as a soloist at the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana at Saint Paul’s Cathedral in London in 1981, when she found her largest audience. Australia Parliament applauds NZ soprano Te Kanawa 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

And there wasn't a single weakness among the soloists either at the Saturday opening-night performance or in the second-cast Sunday matinee. Review: Seattle Opera's 'Barber' really cuts it 2011-01-17T21:39:14Z

In it, he elaborated on theories propounded by Joshua Rifkin two decades before to the effect that what Bach called a chorus would have amounted simply to the sum of the vocal soloists, joining forces. Music Review | Trinity Choir and Trinity Baroque Orchestra: At Trinity, Andrew Parrott Leads a Full-Bodied ?Passion? 2010-03-16T21:46:00Z

Those attendants are holding a space for the soloist, but it’s an ambiguous one: maybe a space of healing, maybe a cage. At Ailey’s Spring Gala, Different Kinds of Hope 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

Soprano soloist Helen Boatwright, who championed the performance of American song and recorded the first full-length album of songs by composer Charles Ives, has died. Pioneering soprano Helen Boatwright dies at 94 2010-12-02T21:07:00Z

But when a soloist occasionally asked how to approach a section, he replied, “Just do what you all want.” Jazz at Lincoln Center Reopens, With Four Young Players in the Spotlight 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

On Friday he made his Proms debut, the opening night's youngest ever soloist, playing Liszt's Piano Concerto No 2. Benjamin Grosvenor: Chopin, Liszt, Ravel ? review 2011-07-16T23:06:06Z

Theresa was soloist for the world premiere of the concerto, which was performed by the Northwest Chamber Orchestra. Philharmonia Northwest presents old and new music created entirely by Seattle composers 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

Two wunderkind soloists joined in for Shostakovich’s Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings. Osmo Vanska Conducts the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z

With the pianist Cory Smythe as soloist, the work unfolded with a series of spare and stark gestures that eventually culminated in a sound of gently buzzing bees. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Showcases the Work of Pauline Oliveros 2013-08-21T21:37:54Z

On Saturday, Newby applies his talents at a different “pitch,” when he debuts as a soloist for the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra’s annual concert of Duke Ellington’s sacred music. Stephen Newby spreads Duke Ellington's sacred message | Concert preview 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

Trying to squeeze Leoncavallo's emotionally charged vocal writing on to the tiny stage put a strain on the soloists. Pagliacci ? review 2011-03-02T19:40:01Z

In 2003 came Three Mysteries, for soloists, choir and chamber orchestra. Geoffrey Burgon obituary 2010-09-22T18:10:00Z

“The Unanswered Question,” with Thomas Rolfs as an excellent trumpet soloist, was exquisitely sustained and mysterious. Ken-David Masur, Back at Tanglewood, Feels His Father’s Spirit 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

Nick Luck, the composer of this wacky piece, called “Bubbles,” was also the soloist, backed by the players of Ensemble neoN, an impressive group from Norway making its American debut. Review: On a MATA Festival Program, Burps, Belches, Paranoia 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

At times the jagged vocal lines seem lacerated by furiously driven strings; at others, soft winds and strings support sustained notes by the soloists or chorus. Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin Don’t Talk. They Sing. 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

As staged in New York, the concerto will showcase two soloists — a violinist, Elizabeth Zeltser of the Philharmonic, and a percussionist, David Cossin — at the front of the stage. Watch Ping-Pong Make Its New York Philharmonic Debut 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z

His two principal female roles are dressed the same as three of the supporting soloists. Dance Review: Miami City Ballet Performs Liam Scarlett?s ?Viscera? 2012-01-30T22:12:57Z

Joshua Higgason’s video projections sometimes multiply a soloist’s image, each copy or visual echo delayed so that the solo becomes a round. Review: When Real Life Adds an Unexpected Round to the Fugue 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

Mr. Sheppard’s arrangements skillfully wove ever-changing textures with one group of players while allowing individual soloists to stand out. Music Review: Metropolitan Opera Brass at St. John the Divine 2013-05-15T20:31:51Z

He appeared as soloist with the Philharmonic more than 70 times before leaving in the fall of 2010. Thomas Stacy, Master of the English Horn, Dies at 84 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

There was overlap of composer and performer in Timo Andres, whose works were well represented but who also served as the soloist — twinkling, patient and tender — in Ingram Marshall’s humbly gorgeous piano concerto “Flow.” At 75, the Ojai Music Festival Stays Focused on the Future 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

Xander Parish is now a soloist and is starring in three ballets as part of the company's London season. Russia's British ballet star 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

In “Dollhouse,” Mr. Frost performs as soloist, conductor, dancer, actor and master of ceremonies; two other clarinetists also participate. The Swedish Clarinetist Martin Frost Wants to Move Beyond Traditional Concert Formats 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

But the soloist keeps going on brief, fidgety excursions before settling back into a melodic grove. Jaap van Zweden Conducts New York Philharmonic 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

Yet in the wayward hands of young soloist Jan Lisiecki, the concerto proved to be the most disappointing part of an uneven night. In BSO debuts, young pianist Jan Lisiecki stumbles as conductor Paul Goodwin shines 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z

But really it’s the sound of a sea orchestra tuning up, waiting for the soloist. The sudden, gruesome opening of "Jaws" 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z

Most of the vocal soloists are excellent, and the orchestra, with the lutenists Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs as music directors and the violinist Robert Mealy as concertmaster, is superb. Review: Boston Early Music Festival Makes Monteverdi Its Main Attraction 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

An understated and dashing oboist, San'nomiva tossed off phrases with the collected passionate dispassion of a jazz soloist, an aesthetic perfectly in accord with that of the Bach Collegium Japan. Masaaki Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan's impeccable taste shows at Disney Hall 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

He studied cornet with his father, a prominent soloist. Philip Smith, Master Trumpeter 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

He sometimes appeared as soloist or recitalist, and among his solo records was an LP of the Mendelssohn sonatas. David Soyer obituary 2010-05-11T18:05:00Z

Familiar melodies aside, the music had a frisson of added intensity, even melancholy; Ms. Lamon was an exciting soloist, conjuring a whirlwind in the final Badinerie. Music Review: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra at Zankel Hall ? Review 2011-11-21T23:08:19Z

The soloist was French violinist Renaud Capucon, who has an ideally lithe tone and who was able to make mysterious melodies come out of, and after a long flight, fade back into the mists. Getting to know — or at least trying to — Matthias Pintscher at an L.A. Phil concert 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z

The general excellence of the orchestra extended as well to individual soloists, especially the woodwind players in both works. Resigned Director of Minnesota Orchestra Takes Spin at Old Job 2014-03-28T06:27:13Z

The opera has so many principal and soloist roles, they could hardly be contained onstage during the curtain call. Review: ‘The Devils of Loudun’ Offers No Escape From Horror 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z

The first commercial in the campaign stars Misty Copeland, a soloist for the American Ballet Theater. Watch This Inspiring Under Armour Ad Starring Ballerina Misty Copeland 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

The same New Music Group program featured the premiere of Kate Soper’s “The Ultimate Abstract Poem,” a deeply thoughtful meditation on beauty, communication and humanity, with the composer as haunting vocal soloist. The L.A. Phil's nonstop new music marathon, 'Noon to Midnight' 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 4, part of a left-hand canon composed for the pianist Paul Wittgenstein, followed, with Leon Fleisher as its soloist. Music Review: The New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2013-12-29T20:02:41Z

For one, a percussionist plays a diverse array of instruments and therefore lacks a singular soloist’s voice. Review: NY Phil Biennial’s Ambitious Wrap-Up, From Boulez to Bolcom 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

There were some alluring effects throughout, beginning with the viola motifs played with panache by Amanda Verner, the soloist. Music Review: American Soundscapes Ensemble at Carnegie Hall 2013-04-29T20:31:54Z

He didn’t act like a star soloist, except for the moments when he did. Review: Charles Lloyd & the Marvels Defy Easy Categories 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

For the latter, Schenkman will accompany the tenor Ross Hauck, while he will be the soloist for Schumann’s early piano cycle “Kinderszenen” — among music’s most touching evocations of the poetry of childhood. Byron Schenkman & Friends present the poetry of Schumann, played and sung 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

Still ranked a soloist, he is surely an étoile in the making. Dance Review: Paris Opera Ballet Leaps Across the Centuries 2010-12-23T12:30:02Z

Carnegie is already a potent force on the classical music scene, staging festivals, anointing composers and musicians in residence and showcasing soloists, chamber groups and orchestras in the concerts that it presents. With More Than Concerts, Carnegie Widens Its Playing Field 2011-01-19T17:27:46Z

Family-friendly programming includes performances of "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring," June 18 and 19, with the CSO, vocal soloists and choir performing Howard Shore's Oscar-winning score. Ravinia spices up summer 2011-03-09T22:42:00Z

Mr. Trifonov, unsurprisingly, proved an ideal soloist in the Third Concerto. Review: In ‘Folk, Form, and Fire,’ Hosting a Party of Five for Prokofiev 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

He didn't penalize soloists from the combo of keyboards, bass, electric guitar, clarinet, sax and percussion when it was their moment to steal $4.39 worth of hot solos. John Adams' 'Ceiling/Sky' remains earthbound 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

Still, an impressive company ethic, cultivated by Mr. Gergiev, encourages all Mariinsky artists to work as a team, as the vocal soloists did here. Music Review | Mariinsky Theater Orchestra: At Carnegie, Gergiev Fosters Teamwork for Berlioz ?Troyens? 2010-03-12T00:22:00Z

But kathak soloists are mathematicians above all, expert calculators of numbers and time. Review: The Spinning Mathematicians of Kathak Dance 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

Tyrell draws on his background as a record producer to present himself in optimal settings by using top-flight arrangers and soloists. Review: Tyrell pays tribute to Cahn on new album 2013-05-28T16:10:09Z

The piece is elegant and often feisty, but Mr. Ma’s recognizable sound was neutered by amplification here, and balances between the soloists and orchestra were unsteady. Review: The New York Philharmonic Celebrates the Chinese New Year 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

As a soloist, Mr. Lateiner appeared with many of the world’s leading orchestras, among them the New York and Berlin Philharmonics, the Boston and Chicago Symphonies and the Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras. Jacob Lateiner, Pianist and Scholar, Dies at 82 2010-12-14T07:30:19Z

She appeared as a soloist with orchestras including the Vienna Symphony, the London Philharmonic, the Orchestre National de France and the Minnesota Orchestra. Mihaela Ursuleasa, Classical Pianist, Dies at 33 2012-08-04T03:30:46Z

The fine soloists were Helena Juntunen, a gleaming soprano; the rich-voiced mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly; the tenor Paul Groves, sounding ardent and confident; and the stentorian bass Matthew Rose. Music Review: London Symphony Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall - Review 2011-10-24T21:46:31Z

The brilliant pianist Yefim Bronfman, artist-in-residence with the orchestra this year, will be the soloist in three programs over three weeks, performing the five Beethoven piano concertos and his Triple Concerto. Classical & Opera Listings for June 6-12 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Dicterow will continue to perform as a soloist and chamber musician, the orchestra said. ArtsBeat: New York Philharmonic Concertmaster to Leave in 2014 2012-05-24T16:41:40Z

This was followed by an arresting performance of Sibelius’s Violin Concerto with the brilliant young Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili as soloist. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Performs at Avery Fisher Hall 2010-06-11T22:11:00Z

Mr. Boyles drew some delicate, gauzy colors from the orchestra at the start of Weber’s Clarinet Concerto No. 1, but the soloist Thomas Carroll seemed less interested in subtle effects. Music Review: Grand Harmonie at the Church of the Epiphany 2013-05-26T21:47:26Z

While the soloists — the Madwoman, the Ferryman and a representative Traveller — sing, the ensemble sits to the side, folding white paper into cranes and boats. Critic’s Notebook: Mark Morris Directing Britten’s ‘Curlew River’ 2013-07-30T20:59:50Z

His soloists were two of the school’s distinguished faculty members: the pianist Melvin Chen, the conservatory’s associate director, and the soprano Dawn Upshaw, the artistic director of the school’s vocal arts program. | Bard College Conservatory Orchestra: Leon Botstein Brings Bard and Dawn Upshaw to Lincoln Center 2010-04-11T21:22:00Z

He became a spellbinding soloist in the 1990s, in both classical recitals and his unique brand of kathak-inflected contemporary dance. A life in dance: Akram Khan 2010-09-27T07:00:00Z

Its gently pulsating final section is a medieval lullaby for soprano soloist, sung here with compelling tenderness by Sarah Tynan. Prom 37: BBC Philharmonic/Noseda 2010-08-15T11:58:00Z

The Argentine pianist, perhaps the most lionized soloist on the current circuit, has a reputation for canceling. Martha Argerich mesmerizes the L.A. Phil 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

And one of Schwarz's most impressive creations was on show too: the soloist in the concerto was his son Julian; in his teens, he's one of the finest cellists now before the public. Review: A last opening night for Gerard Schwarz at the Seattle Symphony 2010-09-12T20:31:00Z

His approach was never “Look at me, the great soloist!” A perfect storm: Yo-Yo Ma, Haydn and Bach with Seattle Symphony 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

Other examples of this genre — collective choreography drawn from a soloist accustomed to ad-libbing — are underwhelming, but Slyde’s “Interplay” finds a rare balance between set structure and prompts for individualizing improvisation. Sets Featuring Fonteyn, the Cunningham Company and Others 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Master Chorale and soloists including three countertenors, who carry the narration. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z

But the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s recording under David Robertson — with Timothy McAllister, for whom the concerto was composed, as soloist — makes a far better, more seductive and varied case for it than Thursday’s performance. Review: A Conductor Adds Her Name to Philharmonic Contenders 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

If you talk about him, it’s almost like you’re part of the chorus and not a soloist. Dave Chappelle on Trump, Cosby and His Netflix Deal 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

It’s more important, however, to observe that Ballet Theater keeps becoming more of a company — with a profusion of talented dancers at corps and soloist levels — and increasingly stylish. The Changing Shape of American Ballet Theater 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

The second, on Wednesday evening, was a complete overhaul of the fascinating program of Mozart and Schoenberg that Mr. Levine had been scheduled to conduct, with Maurizio Pollini as piano soloist. Music Review: A Fresh Face Confronts a Seasoned Mahler 2011-03-18T22:24:01Z

She toured with Martha who was a featured soloist with the Clara Ward Singers, one of the most respected groups on the gospel music circuit. Fontella Bass obituary 2012-12-28T13:51:36Z

Mozart's four horn concertos may be his best set of concertos of all, but you rarely hear them in concert, possibly because these pieces are not exactly walks in the park for the soloist. Andrew Manze leads L.A. Philharmonic in a horn showcase 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

Now a soloist, she joined the company as an apprentice about 10 years ago. Devon Teuscher, a Poet in Ballet Shoes, Takes On ‘Swan Lake’ 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

Its members, all Opera Ballet soloists and corps members, are led by the dancer Samuel Murez, a company colleague whose parents are American but who was raised in Paris. Dance: A Rare Sighting of Paris Talent 2013-07-26T20:12:14Z

As in years past, the soloists in the Trinity “Messiah” were drawn from the chorus, and the recitatives and airs were distributed among several sopranos, altos, tenors and basses, instead of the usual solo quartet. Music Review: ?Messiah? Season, in All of Its Hues 2010-12-16T16:27:17Z

But the sinuous, artfully dovetailed string-writing in Lasser’s arrangement — treating the cello soloist as a first among equals — paid handsome dividends. Superb program shows off virtuosic technique 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

His manner as a musician — grunting, grimacing, bellowing lyrics, humming behind his soloists and dancing in place — is raw, primal and open, in a way that never ceases to startle. Kahil El’Zabar: Jazz as spiritual experience 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

This year, the event goes back to its usual format, with 15 finalists competing for first, second and third place, honorable mention and various soloist and ensemble awards. 3 Seattle-area high schools make finals of 2022 Essentially Ellington jazz band competition 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z

A longtime soloist with two of the most elegant feet in the business, he is parting ways with the company. American Ballet Theater Steadies Itself for Its Next Act 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z

Indeed, connoisseurs may overstate the differences: A recent set of studies demonstrated that even soloists couldn’t always distinguish between a Stradivarius and a new violin. The piano: Keys of the future 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

Tolling percussion sounds throughout; the voice of a soloist — here Sarah Brailey, her soprano dark-hued — keeps emerging from the chorus and building to intense heights. Review: Praying to the Heavens, Looking at the Stars and Revising a Service 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

Reinhardt’s energy and exuberance infused the performance, supporting the soloists admirably and cuing key entrances. Seattle Symphony’s ‘Messiah’ inspires hallelujahs 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z

Gunta Abele, the principal cellist, was the most notable of the many fine orchestral soloists throughout the evening. Music Review: Kremerata Baltica Salutes Mieczyslaw Weinberg 2014-02-02T19:27:54Z

In my favorite version, by the British early-music group the Taverner Choir, Consort, and Players, the soloist is wonderfully incisive and riled up, and the choir is thunderous. Twelve Feel-Good Seasonal Pop Classics, with and Without Christmas 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

Amid a program where all the dancing is excellent, I single out one soloist: Taylor Stanley, who has supporting roles in “Polaris” and “New Blood.” Review: New York City Ballet Gives a Dance Form a Makeover 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

The soloists have leeway in terms of what they play, and when. Review: The Jaap van Zweden Era Begins at the Philharmonic 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

Crucial to the production’s success were three soloists who could hardly have been better. ‘Gerontius,’ where have you been? Seattle Symphony brings seldom-heard piece to vibrant life 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

This is the debut of music director Ludovic Morlot with the symphony; the program will include Beethoven's "Consecration of the House" and Gulda's rip-roaring Concerto for Cello and Wind Orchestra, featuring soloist Joshua Roman. KING FM broadcasts SSO's big night 2011-09-12T22:25:01Z

Yet the success of some Asian artists obscures the fact that many face routine racism and discrimination, according to interviews with more than 40 orchestra players, soloists, opera singers, composers, students, teachers and administrators. Asians Are Represented in Classical Music. But Are They Seen? 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

Eschenbach loves quirky, offbeat soloists, and Weilerstein, a poster girl for people who believe that classical music is a vehicle for raw emotion, is a good example. Inside the NSO’s grand return to Russia 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

In 1945, Shostakovich announced his intention to create an epic, euphoric symphony with choir and soloists to celebrate the victory over Nazi Germany. Hallé/Znaider – review 2012-05-25T18:06:41Z

Whether showing off or baring their souls, flamenco dancers tend to be soloists. Review: Flamenco Within and Beyond a Boundary 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z

In that concerto Bach gives the pianist the dual roles of soloist and accompanist. Music Review: Piotr Anderszewski’s Bach Recital at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-09T22:11:03Z

They sang from memory, though the less than ideally matched soloists remained score-bound. Proms 56 & 57: Minnesota Orchestra/V?nsk? 2010-08-29T11:52:00Z

"Playing in Beethoven's hometown is always a big honor and a big responsibility," said Russian pianist Arcadi Volodos, the soloist in the final night's program. Wagner descendant heads a music fest -- Beethoven, not Bayreuth 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

Mark Bennett was a fine soloist in a Biber sonata for trumpet and strings, otherwise uneventful. Music Review: Andreas Scholl and the English Concert - Review 2011-10-25T20:36:28Z

Throughout the 1950s and ’60s, he was a ubiquitous presence, recording extensively and performing as a member of early-music ensembles; as a soloist with orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic; and in recital. Russell Oberlin, Renowned Countertenor, Is Dead at 88 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

Nicholas Daniel then performed MacMillan's new oboe concerto, written for this renowned soloist who is also a player in the Britten Sinfonia. The Merry Widow; Britten Sinfonia 2010-10-23T23:06:00Z

They plan to record their performances remotely, as soloists or duos. Seattle Chamber Music Society tries a bold experiment, presenting its entire summer festival virtually 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

He also brought an easy, authoritative style to bear as an eloquent soloist, chamber musician, a respected teacher and a noted conductor. Joseph Silverstein, Longtime Boston Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster, Dies at 83 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

But in this recital, presented by Washington Performing Arts, the star soloist returned to surer ground, making glorious sounds from his violin in his favorite Romantic repertoire . Review | Finding escape from despair in Bell’s Romantic recital 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

This seems to be the preferred approach of Tom Gold, a former New York City Ballet soloist who founded his own company, Tom Gold Dance, in 2007. Dance Review: Tom Gold Dance Presents Two Premieres 2014-03-08T00:55:43Z

Among his many constituents, Mr. Moseley seemed most sympathetic to musicians, being one himself, performing as a piano soloist with many orchestras. Carlos Moseley, Former President and Chairman of New York Philharmonic, Dies at 98 2012-10-02T05:23:02Z

And Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17 in G was superbly performed with Emanuel Ax as soloist. Lincoln Center Still Has Mostly Mozart, but What Is It? 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

From his first notes, Green made clear his strengths as soloist: gleaming tone, ample harmonic imagination and one of the best right hands in the business. The maturing pianism of Benny Green 2011-05-20T14:27:56Z

Mr. Fain was the soloist, and he blazed through some of Mr. Glass’s flashiest riffs with impressive authority. Review: Philip Glass, Easy to Mimic but Hard to Match 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z

And, thankfully, the conductors and soloists are increasingly free to move around internationally. Review: After 20-month absence, Seattle Symphony music director back to conduct before a pumped-up crowd 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

Of the soloists, I enjoyed the lower voices more. Early-music expert leads NSO in fresh but uneven interpretation of Handel’s ‘Messiah’ 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

Mozart’s Concerto No. 7 in F, originally for three pianists and revised for two, was a frolicsome lark for its soloists, Ms. Toth and Dongsok Shin, who elsewhere played in the ensemble. Music Review: Artek, an Early-Music Orchestra, at Immanuel Lutheran Church 2013-01-01T22:41:21Z

Like his fellow Finn Sibelius, Hakola took up the violin at an early age and draws inspiration from the natural world – he describes the soloist as "like an eagle soaring over a beautiful landscape". BBC Philharmonic/Storgards/Hardenberger – review 2013-02-03T16:54:28Z

This season bid farewell to the soloist Georgina Pazcoguin and the principal Harrison Ball, each of whom left with a debut. Standing (and Dancing) Strong at New York City Ballet 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z

He became a lay preacher and featured soloist in the choir at the First United Methodist Church not long after he started working at Hawthorn Funeral Home in 1985. How My Aunt Marge Ended Up in the Deep Freeze . . . 2012-04-14T20:06:48Z

He also — a rarity in these works — serves as both soloist and conductor, leading an ensemble of around 50 players. A Pianist Comes Around on Period Instruments 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

“When my Ninth was performed,” Shostakovich later noted, “he was deeply offended, because there was no chorus, no soloists. ... It was just music, which Stalin didn’t understand very well.” Guest conductor Olari Elts to lead SSO Shostakovich program 2014-01-24T01:35:08Z

Racette was perhaps least effective in the opening scene, where the soloists tended to get lost amid the bustle of the crowd. New roles for Racette and Meade at DC Opera 2013-03-18T16:33:09Z

Three of the four soloists were leads in the Washington National Opera’s “Don Carlo,” which finished its run here Saturday. Review | Noseda gives new lightness to powerful and familiar Requiem 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

But if the King’s Singers are true to form, they’ll be back with superb new soloists, sounding reassuringly like their old selves. The King’s Singers bring their pitch-perfect a cappella songs to Washington National Cathedral 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z

The soloist in Mr. Pintscher’s premiere, “songs from Solomon’s garden,” was the baritone Thomas Hampson, who that season was the Philharmonic’s first artist in residence. Music: A Call for More New Music From New York Philharmonic 2012-01-06T17:00:00Z

The very news of a program of four female soloists in various ways linked to, or deriving from, Egypt, Syria and Tunisia was tantalizing. Review: ‘Solos’ Features Four Women in Works Reflecting the Arab World 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

The solo passages for male voices are more pointedly dramatic, often pitting the soloists against dense orchestral and choral scoring. Music Review: Juraj Filas Piece Is a Coda for Kent Tritle - Review 2011-09-15T23:01:04Z

This was the problem in Thursday’s concert, at which Ms. Bartosz and three other soloists appeared with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir under the direction of their founder, Ton Koopman. Music Review: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra at Alice Tully and in Newark 2012-03-18T20:18:26Z

Where else can Broadway babies shed their theatrical roles and strut their stuff as soloists singing whatever they choose? Even With 54 Below and Joe’s Pub, Cabaret’s Future Is Unclear 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z

Part of the Wigmore's Britten centenary series Before Life and After, Martin Brabbins's concert with the Nash Ensemble focused on works for soloists and strings, all of them masterpieces. Nash Ensemble/Brabbins – review 2012-12-05T19:48:00Z

The soloist and orchestra were often at odds, especially in the rustic final Allegro, which stumbled rather than danced. Review: Squeezing Music Made for One Hall Into the Geffen 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

Many soloists, on the other hand, never play Bach in recital. Music Review: Murray Perahia at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-03-26T22:22:02Z

But on this date, when the Ensemble Signal conductor Brad Lubman joins Philharmonic players and a wide range of guest soloists, the music will be presented in Geffen Hall proper. The Philharmonic’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z

The slow movement contains some of the best music, particularly a beautifully written duet for the soloist and the orchestral clarinet. Britten Sinfonia/MacMillan ? review 2010-10-25T21:00:00Z

At 19, as soloist with the Hallé, he gave an astonishing concert of three concertos in one evening, by Bach, Mendelssohn and Brahms. Raymond Cohen obituary 2011-03-22T18:23:06Z

“The idea was to choose a young soloist,” Mr. Robertson said, “but I also wanted someone they could look up to. Gil is a rock star to these kids.” National Youth Orchestra Prepares for Concerts 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

The Bulgarian Cultural and Heritage Center of Seattle will present the premiere of the documentary “This Baba,” the story of choir soloist Penka Encheva. Sci-fi fest winds down; ‘Rosemary’s Baby’; ‘Charade’ 2014-05-08T19:29:33Z

But first, on Sunday David Robertson will take the podium with an all-Strauss lineup that features two tone poems and the “Four Last Songs,” with Renée Fleming as soloist. Classical Music Listings for May 20-26 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

The soloist had to transpose up, by sight, throughout the evening. Perspective | Can Meghan and Harry make you care about Handel? 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

Some of the soloists were underpowered, however, and partnering was a bit shaky throughout the evening. Ballet West ‘Nutcracker’ at the Kennedy Center 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

The first-movement Nocturne was the most strongly articulated by both soloist and orchestra, a soundscape of lunar strangeness that joined extremes of low brass moans and high filaments of violin. Music Review: Frank Peter Zimmermann and Philharmonic Play Shostakovich 2012-11-25T23:04:20Z

A rendition of Brahms’s Violin Concerto — with Maxim Vengerov as soloist — thrilled during some high-octane passages, but sometimes also sounded labored. Review: A Montreal Orchestra Brings Back Bartok’s Strangeness 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

His understanding of, and passion for, the Bartók was as clear as his easy partnership with the soloist. A night of supercharged Bartok, sparkling Mozart at SSO 2014-03-14T18:08:01Z

Such high expectations — and the accompanying marketing din — would tempt many a young soloist to respond with a flamboyant program of the fast-and-loud school of piano playing. Music Review: Daniil Trifonov Returns to Carnegie Hall 2014-02-07T22:28:20Z

Both soloist and orchestra effectively conveyed the diverse moods, with fine contributions from the oboist Randall Ellis. Music Review: The Violinist James Ehnes at Mostly Mozart?s ?Little Night Music? 2010-08-02T21:58:00Z

Since last summer, the Met has livestreamed pay-per-view recitals featuring soloists and musicians from outside its orchestra, drawing criticism from furloughed orchestra members. Met Opera Announces Its First Live Concerts Since Shutdown 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

After a young soloist performed for the pontiff and the gathered guests, Wahlberg, 44, took to the podium. Watch Mark Wahlberg Joke About 'Ted' with Pope Francis 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

They stayed — the ones who did stay — for rich and vivid Shostakovich, played by the National Symphony Orchestra and conductor Gianandrea Noseda without any soloist. Review | A concert that lives up to its promise: Trifonov rules at NSO 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

The soloists took different, but by no means incompatible, approaches. Music Review: Alan Glibert and Frank Peter Zimmermann on Violin - Review 2011-10-06T19:56:57Z

This week’s program, first performed on Tuesday evening, is the third and last in the orchestra’s Beethoven festival built around the five piano concertos, with Yefim Bronfman as soloist and Alan Gilbert conducting. Glenn Dicterow’s Finale With the Philharmonic Is Beethoven 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

In Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, the momentum was on another level, thanks to the crisp brilliance of piano soloist Nikolai Lugansky. Prom 44: RNO/Boreyko 2010-08-19T11:14:00Z

And Christian Tetzlaff, the violin soloist, played with golden radiance, sounding almost all the time like the distilled essence of Mozart except when he accelerated slightly jerkily in some of the fast passages. Review | Michael Tilson Thomas shook up the San Francisco Symphony. So why such standard pieces for their victory lap? 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z

Upon graduation from the school, he moved seamlessly into the New York City Ballet, where he rose from a member of the corps de ballet to soloist to principal dancer — all by age 24. Benjamin Millepied Leaps Into the Spotlight 2011-02-02T23:36:06Z

The soprano soloist sings passages from the Latin liturgy as part of certain choral episodes. Music Review: ‘War Requiem’ by Britten, With an Angelic Touch 2014-05-02T21:20:34Z

That the soloist was Susan Bullock, now one of the world's top Wagner singers, who will sing the same role at Covent Garden next season, made it all the more extraordinary. Die Walk?re; Siegfried; BBC Proms 23, 26 & 27 ? review 2011-08-06T23:06:26Z

Sung and played with freshness and spirit by the Venice Baroque and six youthful soloists, this disc – full of showpiece da capo arias and gleeful coloratura – may up your game on the obscure opera front. L'Olympiade: the Opera ? review 2012-05-19T23:06:27Z

An all-female lineup of composers, a mostly black roster of soloists, and one violinist bowing the wrong way. Review: An Orchestral Season That’s (Almost) Entirely Female 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

The soloist for both Ireland and Walton was Jonathan Lemalu who, during the two brief moments he chose not to sing through his nose, made his contribution well enough. Prom 23: BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Otaka – review 2012-08-01T11:16:10Z

I heard many wonderful soloists in these performances, but two sopranos stood out. A Critic Gives Prizes for 5 ‘Messiah’ Concerts in New York 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

Not long after, she became an apprentice with the A.B.T., then a member of the corps de ballet and eventually a soloist in 2018. The Breakout Stars of 2022 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

Upon her graduation, Ms. Semyonova spent five years as a soloist in the Leningrad company, where she became a star. Marina Semyonova of Bolshoi Ballet Dies at 102 2010-06-10T04:52:00Z

A production of Wagner's life-enhancing work is always a monumental undertaking because of the sheer scale of the work and the forces it requires, a large chorus as well as a considerable roster of soloists. This week's new live music 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z

But, Barto discovered, the composer was by no means dogmatic when his soloist suggested changes. A modernist master’s Mozartean face: Rihm writes for Barto’s pianos 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

Tensions between soloist and ensemble are developed and resolved. Dance Review: Fringe Festival Presents Trinayan Dance Theater 2010-08-20T22:19:00Z

Groups and soloists coexist without tension, even when a woman is partnered by two men in calmly acrobatic adagio. Dance Review: Fall for Dance Festival at City Center 2012-09-30T21:58:45Z

Without a quicksilver soloist to contend with, Debus put his undeniable stamp on Brahms’s First Symphony. Pianist and conductor diverge, clash during their BSO debuts 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z

Ballet soloist Ksenia Zhiganshina also put a brave face on the enforced closure of the theater and its impact on the dancers. Russia's Bolshoi Theater goes online as coronavirus curbs public life 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

The Orchestra of St. Luke’s displayed its usual versatility throughout, conducted by Michael Stern, the music director of the Kansas City Symphony, who had also obviously worked fruitfully with the soloists. Review: Young Concert Artists Gala Offers Stars in the Making 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

He's an intensely physical soloist, throwing himself into the declamatory phrases like a man following a particularly exacting fitness regime, but equally sensitive to those moments of melting tenderness. The Turn of the Screw; BBC Proms 32, 35, 36 ? review 2011-08-13T23:06:02Z

Nicola Benedetti, who has made a career as a violin soloist, is taking on a festival next, with the aim, she said, “to provide the deepest possible experience for people.” A Violinist Prepares Her Next Star Turn: Festival Leader 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

The soloists, Ana María Martínez and Benedict Nelson were decent rather than ideal. BBCSO/Belohl?vek | Classical review 2010-03-22T22:50:00Z

Søndergård's performance was rather like that; he made sure everything glowed, and the choruses and soloist conjured all the necessary faux exoticism, yet the overall impression was minimal. Prom 9: BBCNOW/Søndergård – review 2013-07-19T13:25:57Z

Rock and pop soloists run a disproportionate risk of early death, a sombre report announced this week. ASMF/Marriner – review 2012-12-20T15:54:59Z

Take that “Ode to Joy,” in which the orchestra was joined by the Monteverdi Choir and soloists including Ms. Crowe and the bass Matthew Rose, a late replacement borrowed from “Agrippina” at the Metropolitan Opera. This Is How to Do a Beethoven Symphony Cycle 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

Why do the vocal soloists vanish later in that section, only to reappear shortly thereafter walking down the aisles? Review: San Francisco Symphony Stages ‘Missa Solemnis’ With a Visual Component 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

Only some of Ballet Theater’s usual stars are involved; a good many of the company’s soloist and corps dancers are being given individual opportunities. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater Returns to City Center - Review 2011-11-09T22:54:34Z

And personal to the soloists he believed in, and the composers he championed, and the audiences he entertained and educated. Tribute: George Shangrow, a roaring presence on Seattle's classical-music scene 2010-08-07T00:21:00Z

Miriam Miller, a City Ballet soloist, said “Copland Dance Episodes” is “a nonnarrative ballet, but there are emotions and narrative within it.” Justin Peck’s New Americana, Set to Copland’s Old 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

The soloist was the lyrical, incisive Alisa Weilerstein, who released a flawless recording of the concerto with the Czechs several years ago. Review: The Czech Philharmonic Brings Tear-Streaked Consolation 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

Ms. Kitamura then hands the soloist’s baton to Michael Mayo, whose riffing engages more directly with the scat singing of bebop and later a cappella trends. The Sumptuous, Sour Music of Cory Smythe 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

The vocalist soloists were also fine and well matched, though the only certified star was the soprano Marlis Petersen, who sang the title role in Berg’s “Lulu” last year at the Metropolitan Opera. ArtsBeat: When Expectations Mix With Reality 2011-04-16T11:50:33Z

First, the superb British pianist Paul Lewis will be the soloist in Brahms’s First Piano Concerto; then Mr. Dohnányi leads the orchestra in Schumann’s Second Symphony. Opera & Classical Music Listings for April 11-17 2014-04-10T22:56:37Z

The second world premiere of the evening from Mr. Peck, the New York City Ballet soloist, will be a work for five dancers set to Lukas Foss’s “Capriccio for Cello and Piano.” ArtsBeat: New York City Ballet Announces Fashion-Focused Fall Gala 2013-06-20T18:51:34Z

Diversity thrives from top to bottom of the organization — on our board of directors, in our support groups, among the composers, soloists and musical works we present. Freeman bids fond farewell to diverse Sinfonietta 2011-05-18T15:28:00Z

And the end of the third movement closed with crisp little phrases passed from one soloist to another, some of the cleanest, nicest playing I’ve heard from Eschenbach and the orchestra. Eschenbach starts two-week Tchaikovsky focus at NSO with unusual repertoire 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

But solo dance work is only as good as the soloist. Velocity Dance: A mix of rap, Cyndi Lauper, daring ? and a need for tightening 2011-10-29T17:29:03Z

The composer once more calls for a large orchestra, as well as adult chorus, children's chorus and eight soloists – one reason it for its relatively infrequent stagings. Glyndebourne 2012: A musical guide to the Ravel opera double bill 2012-08-16T11:05:51Z

There is more tension here between discreet, uneasy minimalism and an impulse toward lushness, fullness — more tension between the soloist receding and speaking his mind. Tyshawn Sorey: The Busiest Composer of the Bleakest Year 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z

Dial 251 is a crisp, cohesive unit with gifted soloists and a great deal to say. Ambitious and rewarding show from jazz sextet Dial 251 honors two music legends 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

After the musicians of the New York Philharmonic finished Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto on Thursday night, they did something they don’t usually do: They applauded the soloist. Review: When the Philharmonic Applauds the Soloist 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

A decade later, Brahms chose her as the soloist for the premiere of his Alto Rhapsody. A Queen of 19th-Century Opera Gets New Attention 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

Its members — who also include soloists, dancers, actors and stage managers — are currently learning about the specifics of the deal and are still voting on whether to ratify it. Met Opera’s Deal With Its Choristers Has Less Savings Than It Sought 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

The different orchestral groups mirror everything that the soloist offers, as magnified shengs. The Philharmonic Takes on a Composer of Puzzles and Turns 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

Bach benefited most from the fluid ease of Marsh’s approach: the chorus resilient and the soloists confident. Review | Bach Consort celebrates new year, new leader 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

“Your body lines up; your brain lines up,” said Craig Salstein, a former soloist with Ballet Theater who is teaching an online company class for members of New York City Ballet. Dancers Still Need Daily Class. No Barre? Just Grab a Chair. 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

It’s also fiendishly difficult for the soloist, lasts 70 minutes and brings on a men’s chorus in the last movement — all reasons it is seldom performed. Pianist Garrick Ohlsson on Busoni’s 70-minute concerto: ‘A noble, beautiful work’

Sarah Tynan, the only originally scheduled soloist, was agile in the curlicues of coloratura that illustrate the dove cooing to his mate and, in the words of the libretto, “the nightingale’s delightful notes.” Review: Haydn’s ‘Creation’: The Birth of All, With High Hopes at Mostly Mozart 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z

The soloists have the most ambitious and sober music. Music Review | Voices of Ascension: Back to the Roots for Rossini?s ?Petite Messe Solennelle? 2010-03-24T20:56:00Z

That opportunity for accountability and self-discipline has attracted other soloists to join in. Hilary Hahn Practices in Public, Wherever and However She Is 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z

The soloist will be the brilliant, probing German violinist Christian Tetzlaff. Opera & Classical Music Listings for March 28-April 3 2014-03-27T22:25:27Z

It features eight soloists and 48 chorus members, in addition to the 70-piece Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. An Opera Inspired by Pink Floyd Will Get Its United States Premiere 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z

During a magnificent stretch at the conclusion of the Intermezzo, the line between soloist and symphony blurred, the music exploded into the realm of dazzling energy, and everyone in the hall was breathing as one. Review: A shimmering night of German romantic classics at the symphony 2010-05-14T16:54:00Z

A lot of concertos pit the orchestra against the soloist, but I didn’t get the sense that is what you were aiming for here. Unsuk Chin on the Violin Concerto She Swore She’d Never Write 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z

The narrative typically begins with a future soloist displaying an aptitude for music at a very young age. The concert pianist who was discovered while working in a grocery store 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

The assignment of dramatic roles to those soloists, however, differed in the two works. Smaller venue means more splendor in St. John Passion 2014-03-02T17:52:41Z

Half of the 12 soloists in “Messiah/Complex” are Indigenous. A ‘Messiah’ for the Multitudes, Freed From History’s Bonds 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z

Shimizu is an assured and exciting soloist, controlled but in the moment. Los Angeles Ballet's 'Don Quixote' has stand-out dancers but is burdened by questionable staging 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

But after Tertis attended the 1929 premiere, with Walton conducting and the composer and violist Paul Hindemith as soloist, he decided that he liked the work after all, and he played it many times. Music Review: Juilliard Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall 2012-12-17T05:23:04Z

In the dance, set to music by Robert Fripp, a soloist — usually a man — performs 100 jumps in quick succession as a strobe light freezes the airborne images like a series of snapshots. ‘Caught,’ by David Parsons, Performed by Alvin Ailey Dance 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

Wednesday’s lineup includes Brahms’s Symphony No. 1 and the violinist Pinchas Zukerman as the soloist in Mozart’s “Turkish” Concerto. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Jan. 16-22 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

A new album of concertos for cello and string orchestra, energetically performed by soloist Nicolas Altstaedt and the British ensemble Arcangelo, flaunts the composer’s sparkling melodies, zigzagging rhythms and shifting moods. CD reviews: Early music on the cutting edge 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

Just before the start of the winter engagement, seven dancers were promoted to soloist; now they’re joined by the three new principal men. Winter Season at City Ballet: ‘Now Is the Time for a New Generation’ 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

The contributions by various guest soloists in these portions were also stellar — though these players were isolated from the Hespèrion musicians for long stretches. Review: The White Light Festival Opens With a Journey to the East 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

But her work as a soloist — just her endlessly flexible, creatively employed voice and an electric guitar — is equally compelling. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Denk’s interplay with the orchestra’s individual soloists, like the fine clarinets, appeared easy and equal — a joy to watch. Review: The Joys of a Conductorless Chamber Performance 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Bezuidenhout, who played continuo harpsichord in “Chaos” and the sinfonias, was the refined soloist in J. S. Bach’s Concerto in D minor. Music Review: ‘The Baroque Vanguard,’ at the Miller Theater 2013-04-30T20:55:35Z

Stewart Rose was a fine horn soloist in the pavane, and Philip Smith, the principal trumpeter, was the most notable soloist in “Pictures.” Music Review: A Stick in the Spokes of a Philharmonic Night 2011-06-17T22:29:44Z

The deal with AGMAs covers choristers, soloists, dancers, directors, assistant directors, stage managers and staff performers. Met Opera deal allow solo singer fees cut by up to 12.7% 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

Roth conducts sympathetically and Vanessa Wagner is a suitably skittish soloist in Dubois's Second Piano Concerto, from 1897; the sleeve scrupulously documents the orchestra and the late 19th-century instruments they play. Dubois: Piano Concerto No 2; Dixtuor; Ouverture de Frithiof – review 2012-06-14T21:25:01Z

There's not much spontaneity here, and while the contribution of the Berlin Radio Choir is awesomely imposing, the two soloists, Kate Royal and Magdalena Kožená, aren't a patch on Augér and Baker. Mahler: Symphony No 2 ? review 2011-02-24T22:15:01Z

In Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, Mr. Langrée once again seemed to be nudging his soloist along. Music Review: Alice Coote and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet at Mostly Mozart 2013-07-31T21:15:18Z

Dana Marsh, director of the historical performance program at Indiana University Bloomington, conducted the four soloists, chorus and some 28 instrumentalists. Review | Bach Consort goes full-fanfare in a crisp if orchestrally weak “Christmas Oratorio” 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z

Craig Hall, a soloist, is retiring this season and performing some of his last shows in Paris, although he will remain with the company as a ballet master. New York City Ballet Savors the City of Light 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

On Thursday, Mr. Huang, 38, who began his tenure last season, revealed the full range of his talents as the soloist in Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor. Review: The Philharmonic’s Concertmaster Steps Into the Spotlight 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

The soloists sounded robust and vibrant from their elevated stations, Ms. Milne and Mr. Sigmundsson particularly. Music Review: Ivan Fischer Leads Beethoven Program at Avery Fisher Hall 2010-03-29T21:12:00Z

It's a strangely dilatory piece of writing in which the soloist seems too absorbed in philosophic thoughts to play any of the main themes. Hall?/Mark Elder ? review 2011-03-20T18:01:00Z

Two guest soloists, each skilled in the art of improvisation, appeared in New York City on Friday night with the cutting-edge chamber group Ensemble Signal. It’s Alive! It’s With the Band! A Computer Soloist Holds Its Own 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z

The other works on the program are  Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1, with Joshua Bell as the soloist, and works by Nielsen, Grieg and Liszt. With Storms Expected, Philharmonic Cancels Central Park Concert 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

The strings brought a dark intensity to the long opening passage, the woodwind spotlit some already fine soloists, and the whole ensemble played with electric commitment. Prom 13: NYO-USE/Gergiev – review 2013-07-22T17:49:10Z

Savannah Lowery — as the soloist who is mistress of ceremonies in “Rubies” — hurled happy thunderbolts. Jonathan Stafford Bids Farewell to City Ballet 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

On May 22, David Robertson takes the podium with an all-Strauss lineup that features two tone poems and the “Four Last Songs,” with Renée Fleming as soloist. Classical Music Listings for May 13-19 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

Apart from "Lelio's" impractical scoring for narrator, vocal soloists, piano, orchestra and small choruses, however, there is one big reason the melodrama is hardly ever heard, and that is its long, narcissistic narration. Muti and the CSO at Carnegie Hall: Feel the love 2011-04-17T20:27:00Z

Maybe stellar names like those of the work’s earliest interpreters were missing from the Seattle Symphony’s list of soloists. A sublime, profound ‘War Requiem’ at SSO | Classical review 2013-06-14T18:03:36Z

The programs for July and August are particularly rich, with performances of popular composers like Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Gounod, Dvorak, Granados and others, played by distinguished soloists, chamber groups and orchestras. In Transit: In Paris, Classical Music at a Holy Site 2011-07-13T10:00:04Z

The two tone poems were separated by Ravel's Piano Concerto in G, with Hélène Grimaud as soloist, a late change to the programme: she was originally scheduled to play Mozart's K 488. LSO/Daniel Harding ? review 2011-02-13T22:01:02Z

With its double chorus, double chamber orchestra, cast of soloists, and intricate scoring, this is Bach at his most epic, as he sets to music the story of Christ’s Crucifixion. All the stars align for a stirring St. Matthew Passion at SSO 2014-02-22T20:45:27Z

And so does the maestro; so does the featured soloist. How does watching a Seattle Symphony concert from home compare to a live concert? 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z

This was an elegant account of the concerto, with soloist Steven Osborne happy to share the spotlight with the orchestra. SCO/Kamu 2010-03-22T22:45:00Z

Prokofiev's First Piano Concerto has some of the same ferocity as the Walton, and soloist Lise de la Salle pounded that out with impunity. CBSO/Litton – review 2012-05-29T16:37:51Z

Seattle’s veteran historically informed performance company kicks off the holiday season with a performance of Handel’s “Messiah,” featuring the Blessed Sacrament Schola Cantorum, soloists and Baroque orchestra on 18th-century instruments. 4 classical-music events to hear this week 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

Principal guest conductor Thomas Dausgaard conducted a program that included Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto with soloist Pekka Kuusisto, as well as new work by Helen Grime and Carl Nielsen’s Symphony No. 3. Review: At Seattle Symphony, a winning night from opener to encore 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

He moved to Israel with his family in 1950 and made his public debut as a soloist with the Haifa Symphony when he was 9. Sergiu Luca, Violinist Who Founded Music Festivals, Is Dead at 67 2010-12-09T05:24:00Z

Early jazz from New Orleans framed soloists’ interjections with a raucous polyphonic texture; big bands, in the thirties, provided a thickness of intricate arrangement or urgent riffs. The Best Jazz Reissues of 2014 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

Ling threaded these effects gently beneath the soloists, adding to the movement’s primordial quality. Taipei Symphony makes Strathmore debut with pride and passion 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z

In “Walpurgisnacht,” a female soloist alternates sections with a lead ballerina. Justin Peck, Along With Balanchine, From City Ballet 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

By my count, more than 200 instrumentalists and singers were jammed onto the Carnegie stage, plus Nagano and the soloist Jan Vogler on cello, for the nearly hourlong work. Review: Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra Gets Ambitious at Carnegie Hall 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z

The soloist's tonal beauty is jaw-dropping, with rich sound that tapers away to a pliant thread, and yet can be aggressively assertive. Review: CDs from Seattle Symphony, violinist James Ehnes 2010-12-16T05:01:05Z

Peck eventually rose to the rank of soloist, while at the same time making his own dances. With ‘West Side Story,’ choreographer Justin Peck brought dance into the Spielberg universe 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

For some reason, the four soloists were situated at the back of the orchestra. American Youth Symphony and National Children's Chorus members rise to 'Heaven Earth Mankind' 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

It was a reminder of the French origins of both conductor and soloist, and the perfect, serene close to a most promising season-opener. Seattle Symphony’s festive concert opens a season with much to commemorate 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z

On Saturday, there’s more Mozart, as well as Haydn’s “Nelson” Mass and Bernstein’s “Halil,” in which the soloist will be the ensemble’s principal flutist, Elizabeth Rowe, who is currently suing the orchestra for pay discrimination. 5 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

But the Schubert and the Beethoven were really only hors d'oeuvres; the concert's main course was Brahms's First Piano Concerto, with Paul Lewis as the soloist. Bournemouth SO/Karabits/Lewis – review 2013-04-11T17:21:53Z

Marthaler had the curtain descend while soloists and choristers dispersed to various parts of the opera house, so that when they sang the entire theater filled with rejoicing. Review:"Williams Tell" celebrates all things Swiss 2010-12-10T12:08:00Z

The two soloists, top-class leaders among emerging international artists, played as if they were chamber partners, each listening to and answering the other while Sinaisky wrapped that warm blanket of Brahms harmonies around them. Review: Guest conductor Sinaisky puts sizzle in Symphony's night 2010-03-19T19:02:00Z

Though still only 30, he is now comfortable enough to appear as conductor, composer and soloist. RLPO/Wigglesworth ? review 2010-11-23T22:20:00Z

Ms. Woodward and Mr. Suozzi are soloists, and Ms. Kretzschmar and Ms. Miller are corps dancers, but all have made vivid impacts in a number of lead roles. Under City Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ Tree, Dancers Find New Roles 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z

Would the audience have heard better music if the soloists had played their own instruments? Music Review: Daniel Hope and Karen Gomyo, Violinists, at Met Museum 2012-12-25T22:09:24Z

In any case, Underwood, the ambitious soloist on "Breaking Pointe," is taking all the new attention in stride. Arabesques, reality-style: Ballet hits pop culture 2012-06-29T19:01:09Z

But as soon as he returned to the company, he was named a soloist. Once ‘Little Joe,’ Now a Reigning New York City Ballet Principal 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

After intermission, though, in an account of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto with the young Russian pianist Denis Kozhukhin, there were moments of dicey ensemble in the orchestra and poor coordination with the soloist. Music Review: St. Petersburg Philharmonic and Denis Kozhukhin Perform 2014-02-14T22:30:29Z

The violist Antoine Tamestit was the beguiling soloist in that work, stalking the stage and turning a duet with a solo horn into a tête-à-tête at the back of the orchestra. Review: Berlioz, Rendered Newly Audacious at Carnegie Hall 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

The eminent pianist Leon Fleisher is the soloist in Prokofiev’s Concerto No. 4. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Dec. 27-Jan. 2 2013-12-27T05:51:06Z

In the third movement the soloist puts on, but ultimately loses, a good face. Europa Galante's graceful time warp back to Vivaldi's final season 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

The accompaniment, though, was breathtaking, Chailly and the orchestra exploring levels of piano and pianissimo playing that one seldom hears, like a halo around the soloist. Gewandhaus Orchestra does German canon justice at Kennedy Center

On songs such as “Grand Central” and “Saddle,” the baritone singer warbles like a church soloist, while the smoldering “Be There Soon” boasts a holy-sounding choir and spare organ. Best of 2016: 14 criminally underrated albums that came out this year 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

The overall result was a reading that felt slightly distant; the third movement, from both soloist and orchestra, lacked the sense of vitality and bite that characterizes so much of Prokofiev in his up-tempo mode. Restrained and urbane, Noseda leads NSO in strong Rachmaninoff 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

Bach's “Trauernacht” cantatas with soloists and instrumentalists of the European Academy of Music. Trip Tips: Mozart to Masekela, summer festivals for all tastes 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

The festival’s dances were — for economic reasons — almost all to taped music, but most soloists and companies made as much a virtue of this as possible. Sattriya, Kathak and Bharatanatyam Dance at Drive East 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

And the woodwind soloists — including Yoobin Son, standing in as the principal flutist — were superb. Review: Odd, Delightful Juxtapositions at the Philharmonic 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

On Tuesday and Wednesday, Joshua Bell, an audience favorite, returns as the soloist in Dvorak’s Violin Concerto, after Mozart’s Symphony No. 38 and Kodaly’s “Dances of Galanta.” 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

All of the festival's concerts are broadcast on Radio 3 and many are filmed – but only the Last Night, with its star soloists, classical favourites and traditional tunes, attracts viewers in their millions. A female conductor at the Last Night of the Proms is worth waving a flag for 2013-04-19T15:38:21Z

The most striking solo dancing comes from Mr. Huxley, a distinguished classical soloist, who here makes the most impact with undulations above the waist. Dance Review: Underworld Notes, in the Homeric Sense 2014-02-02T22:31:20Z

As soloists, the two superb pianists offer insightful and profoundly expressive music making; here they proved ideally matched collaborators. 2010-02-15T22:28:00Z

A date for the OSM with a stellar conductor and soloist seems not just a no-brainer but a necessity. Kent Nagano and Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal prove gripping in Santa Barbara 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z

The ensemble serves as a kind of velvety pillow, atop which Mr. Shankar weaves coppery skeins for himself, as soloist. Review: A Concerto in Which East Meets West, and Peace Reigns 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

But those in the know seek out one in particular: Trinity Wall Street’s, led by Julian Wachner at Trinity Church with a sure sense of drama, and soloists drawn from its riveting chorus. The New Season of Classical Music: A ‘Fake News’ Opera and Sound Quilts 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

Those performances will be in the cavernous Park Avenue Armory, which will be configured along the lines of the Philharmonie in Berlin, with the audience surrounding the players, choristers and soloists. Berlin Philharmonic Plans Major Concerts in New York 2013-12-09T21:00:01Z

Musica Sacra’s soloists were smoother and steadier, looking and sounding more glamorous; these were clearly opera singers, not Baroque choristers. Music Review: Trinity Wall Street and Musica Sacra in ?Messiah? - Review 2011-12-21T22:43:12Z

A Canadian emigrant who became one of America's most-recognized gospel soloists, Shea himself summed up his career with one of his inspirational trademarks: "The Wonder of It All." George Beverly Shea dies; sang at Graham crusades 2013-04-17T03:24:13Z

The evening’s sole soloist was Ms. Waldman, in the long opening number, “Entanglement Variations,” a work in progress. Review: Meredith Monk and Anne Waldman, in Playful Collaboration 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z

The concert began with a vanishingly rare sight at the Philharmonic: two women appearing together as concerto soloist and conductor. Review: A Conductor’s Exciting Return to the New York Philharmonic 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

But this joy is no more convincingly conveyed by chorus, orchestra and soloists than is anguish. Seeking an inner light amid darkness of Dvorak's Stabat Mater 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

Trombone soloist Nathan Davis did some of the evening’s best work. Wynton Marsalis debuts a stirring ‘Blues Symphony’ 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

One of those subjects, Dale Blackheart, was the night’s more affecting soloist. French and American Dance Festival, All Around New York 2014-05-06T15:05:13Z

Even as symphonies and other works for soloist and orchestra kept coming from the Bolcom workshop, no new piano concerto followed — a peculiar development, given his own stature as a keyboardist. Decades Later, a Composer Revisits the Piano Concerto 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

Influenced as much by Stravinsky as by Ellington or Gil Evans, and open to the wildest diversions from improvising soloists, Towns' explosive albums remain at the cutting-edge of big-ensemble jazz. F&M playlist 2011-01-27T22:15:01Z

Morlot was a genial accompanist, perky in the outer movements, placid in the Adagio, but not really on his soloist's more curious and challenging wavelength. Sun shines on Hollywood Bowl guest conductor Ludovic Morlot 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

Yet Grime didn’t exploit two dynamic elements of the concerto form: dialogue between soloist and orchestra, and the dramatic potential of the individual juxtaposed against the crowd. Review | Percussion concerto offers less bang than whimper 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

Mr. Peck will stop dancing with the company, where he is now a soloist, after the spring season. City Ballet, Shaken by Turmoil, Chooses New Leaders 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

But unlike, say, Salzburg or the Proms in London, Lucerne did more than invite visiting ensembles and soloists to play something by Boulez. At the Lucerne Festival, even hip-hop skateboarders love Pierre Boulez 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

The program also features Beethoven’s “Egmont Overture” and Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini,” with the impressive young pianist Conrad Tao as soloist. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Nov. 21-27 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

The soloist Anthony Huxley, though still inclined to look studiously cautious, has mastered the choreography of the Act I pas de trois with finesse. Dance Review: Peter Martins?s ?Swan Lake? at New York City Ballet - Review 2011-09-14T22:29:22Z

The Opera Theater of St. Louis justly prides itself on its stellar chorus, and in both “Shalimar” and “Macbeth,” this ensemble of young aspiring soloists carried much of the musical weight. Review: 2 Murderous Men in 2 Operas About Killing for Politics 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

Dameron was a composer and an arranger who also played piano—soloing modestly but landing some provocative chords behind his notable soloists, as in his quintet recording featuring his elegant composition “A Bebop Carol.” The Year’s Most Essential Jazz Reissue 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

The model of the bluegrass guitar player as soloist was introduced, in the nineteen-sixties, by Clarence White, who later played guitar with the country incarnation of the Byrds. Listening to Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

Dynamics — usually punchy for soloists, soft for female ensembles — tend to be monotonous. Dance Review: Boston Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker,’ at Boston Opera House 2012-12-31T23:32:32Z

The Icelandic volcano also prevented the scheduled soloist from getting here, necessitating a change in program. Ludovic Morlot issues wide-open invitation to concertgoers 2011-08-31T20:53:04Z

The soloists meshed beautifully in a prayerful Andante; in the boisterous finale Mr. Dicterow’s almost capricious swagger provided vivid contrast to Ms. Weilerstein’s dreaminess. Music Review: Kurt Masur Leads New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-11-09T23:40:08Z

The evening's main soloist, 19-year-old Benjamin Grosvenor, later launched himself at Liszt's Second Piano Concerto, revelling in its brilliance and conveying its blend of showmanship and poetry with easy assurance. First Night of the Proms: BBCSO/Belohlavek - review 2011-07-16T00:28:34Z

In the opening and closing numbers the soloists and chorus are combined. Jordi Savall Evokes the Past by Hearing Its Music 2010-04-30T20:35:00Z

The ostensible drawing card at the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra’s concert at on Saturday evening was an account of Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2, with Vadim Gluzman as soloist. Music Review: A Violin Concerto Was the Attraction, but a Serenade Had Seductive Power 2011-01-31T23:50:57Z

Ms. Teyssier was the compelling soloist, singing Maria Maddalena, in the Sciarrino piece, which over 30 taut minutes tries to evoke the scene of the mystic nun issuing her clipped bursts of words. Review: Cantata Profana Captures the Death of a Saint 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z

That’s the shorthand for performances by prominent young string soloists; the usual thought is they are the main event. Review: A Cellist Accompanied by His Sister. Or Vice Versa? 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

The rest of the dancers function as soloists, moving in flock-like patterns and creating an image of parallel states of solitude. Washington Ballet concludes its virtual season with a breath of fresh air, captured on film 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

The standout soloist was Mr. Miller, carving through chord substitutions with wit and soul. Music Review: Pee Wee Ellis All Star Band Plays at Iridium 2010-04-23T22:43:00Z

The Brazilian Nelson Freire was the soloist in Chopin's Second Piano Concerto, his pearly tone and liquid dexterity finely supported by conductor and orchestra. Prom 36: BBCSO/Bringuier 2010-08-13T10:48:00Z

An invigorating account of Mozart's Piano Concerto No 17 demonstrated Wigglesworth's facility as a soloist. RLPO/Wigglesworth ? review 2010-11-23T22:20:00Z

Dotted with cadenzas that put the soloist back in the forefront, the concerto demonstrated Kernis’ command of the complete orchestral palette, from cataclysmic brass passages to otherworldly solo harmonics over hushed strings. Review: New concerto was written for powerhouse violinist — and he delivered 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

The contrast between the typical jet-set norms of a traveling soloist and the earthbound fortunes of a musician’s unemployment, are startling. Simone Porter, who made her Seattle Symphony debut at age 10, returns for a very different kind of concert 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z

Brittany Pollack, one of the company’s strongest soloists, sparkled in the “My One and Only” role: She’s learning to temper the remarkable brightness of her dancing, to show softness and warmth amid the luster. Sugarplum Fairies and Cavaliers Move Ahead at City Ballet 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

The soloist in the concerto was Leila Josefowicz, finely attuned both to the ambivalent sense of calm-before-the-storm nostalgia that pervades the outer movements, and the flippant brilliance of the scherzo with its Classical Symphony overtones. LSO/Zhang ? review 2011-04-06T18:00:29Z

Here, the pace is frenetic as clusters of dancers dash from one side of the stage to the other and soloists break free, with ever-reaching arms and stretched fingers. Review: Sasha Waltz’s ‘Continu,’ Dances of Contrasting Moods 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

Dvorak is the focus on Sunday, with works that include the Symphony No. 8 and the Violin Concerto, with Renaud Capuçon as the soloist. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

As a result, repertoires are rarely published in advance and performances can be highwire acts, as the soloist explores the available possibilities. Cameron Carpenter: rhinestone cowboy 2010-05-20T22:30:00Z

But while his physical infirmity was disconcerting, what has stayed with me most was the sensitivity showed him by the superstar pianist Lang Lang, the soloist that evening. A Mighty Generation of Musicians. A Moving Final Chapter. 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z

Last week she was the soloist in the world premiere performances of Sebastian Currier’s “Time Machines,” played alongside Beethoven and Bruckner. Music Review: In a Finale, Comfort Trumps Provocation 2011-06-06T22:06:28Z

The touring company includes six principal dancers, 18 troupe dancers, a live five-piece band, flamenco dancer and two American tap dancers, one of whom is also a baritone soloist. 'Riverdance' saying goodbye to North America 2012-02-19T17:26:12Z

This excellence is also widespread at the soloist level. Dance Review: Under an Enchantment and Catching Z?s for a Century, but With Both Eyes Open 2011-07-06T22:11:45Z

Although the massed scenes suffered grievously, Mr. Marthaler fortunately left the soloists well enough alone for several arias and ensembles, including the great trio in Act 2. Opera Review: Zurich Opera's 'Guillaume Tell' Is Tripped Up by Gimmickry 2010-11-23T12:40:00Z

He was 84, but he continued performing as a soloist and with ensembles. Menahem Pressler, Pianist Who Co-Founded the Beaux Arts Trio, Dies at 99 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z

Seventy-five minutes with no intermission is certainly a long time for any soloist to hold an audience’s attention and to perform without a break. Steven Schick Performs ‘Mathematics of Resonant Bodies’ 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

In the Cage, the piano part, played here by Joseph Kubera, is whatever the player makes of it: the soloist builds it by choosing from a compilation of 64 short pieces. Music Review: When Soloists Don?t Necessarily Star 2011-04-15T23:01:47Z

Bleckmann was the dreamy soloist in the premiere of Jacob Cooper's moody "Ripple in the Sky." Beth Morrison's '21C Liederabend. Op. LA' at Disney Hall was a good idea (but next time, rethink the presentation, please) 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

That would have left room for any soloist, but Chen rarely dipped below mezzo forte in volume, his force evident in the many bow hairs he broke during the performance. Review: The New York Philharmonic Brings Back the Standards 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

Morgan Jourdain’s reconstruction of the funeral music is elegantly rendered by the Ensemble Pygmalion and a strong lineup of vocal soloists. Classical Playlist: Steve Reich, Mendelssohn, Bach and More 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

But it’s evident that Mr. Ratmansky is interested in entrusting his star roles to dancers at corps or soloist level. Critic?s Notebook: A Galaxy of Ballet Stars Spinning in a Flickering Universe 2011-06-05T22:25:36Z

Conducting three concertos from the keyboard, Mr. Kahane seemed less the star soloist than the empowering leader of a collaboration among gifted, eager artists. Review: ‘The public domain’ Beats the Heat and Humidity 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z

To the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra he is both of those things and an opportunity — a way to display what it can do through flexible big-band reinventions and guest soloists. Music Review: ‘The Genius of Coltrane’ at the Rose Theater 2012-10-28T21:50:06Z

Neal Stulberg will conduct a chorus consisting of the ensemble Tonality and members of Los Angeles church and synagogue choirs; a brass and percussion orchestra; and two vocal soloists. A Dave Brubeck Cantata Boasts Star Soloists: His Sons 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

An evolution Petipa himself ignited, by blowing it up to operatic proportions, not only with occasional live animals, but also with extended sequences for the corps de ballet and soloists as well as the stars. Camels, monkeys and lions at the ballet: Marius Petipa was just getting started 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

But I wondered whether there was not room for a similarly calculated freedom in situations where an instrumental soloist plays against a bass line. Critic’s Notebook: Catherine Turocy’s Lessons Unlock Early Music’s Meaning 2013-09-03T21:51:27Z

In order to endure – ranking as the second most successful X Factor soloist after 2006 victor Leona Lewis – Burke has had to be adaptable. Ten years of The X Factor, the show-off show with a talent for survival 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, making its Kennedy Center debut on Wednesday under the auspices of Washington Performing Arts, offered a portfolio of a program: splashy displays, a featured soloist, a souvenir from home. Review | Melbourne Orchestra brings sense of several places to Kennedy Center 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

Dugan played two sections of Ravel’s “Tombeau de Couperin,” in the French set, as a signal that he also is a formidable soloist. World War I tribute makes a refreshing recital debut for baritone John Brancy 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Mostly, though, the endless flood of Bach, Beethoven and Mahler cycles let loose by our major soloists, chamber ensembles and orchestras stifles the genuinely creative thinking that our art needs. Review: Attacca Quartet Continues Its Haydn Project 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

In 1971, Cunningham created “Loops,” a series of tasks for a soloist. Review: Who Can Commune With Cunningham and Cage? 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

Played with period instruments and featuring inspired soloists, this is a "Messiah" that seems to float in air. Holiday music gifts: Leave the best for last-minute 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

He simply led his 53 singers, 4 soloists and the moderately scaled Artemis Chamber Ensemble in a generally brisk, shapely performance that focused on the work’s devotional core and celebrated its extraordinary structure. Music Review: Canticum Novum Singers in Bach Mass at St. Jean Baptiste 2012-05-21T22:03:12Z

As a soloist, Mr. Washington still tends to start off in a low, rapped babble, and end in dry, rafters-level screams. Kamasi Washington, Still in an Epic Mind-Set on ‘Heaven and Earth’ 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

Widely regarded as the world's ranking cellist since the death of Mstislav Rostropovich — the dedicatee of both concertos — Yo-Yo Ma, Tuesday's soloist, is a musician never to be taken lightly. Review: The return of the ranking cellist ? Yo-Yo Ma 2010-12-08T19:22:00Z

It seemed to take a moment for Christiane Karg, the main soprano soloist, to adjust to Mr. Nézet-Séguin’s haste, but once she did, she reveled in the coloratura and sang beautifully throughout. Music Review: Yannick Nézet-Séguin at Mostly Mozart Festival 2012-08-05T21:43:45Z

“The Story of Christmas: An Evening of Readings, Christmas Carols and Song,” with works by Williams, Courtney, Ballet and others; with soloists; Paul Stephan, organist, pianist and music minister. Not Just Festive; Funky, Too 2013-12-12T23:43:49Z

The Georgian pianist Alexander Toradze, long considered an insightful representative of the Romantic tradition, was the soloist in the Second. Review: In ‘Folk, Form, and Fire,’ Hosting a Party of Five for Prokofiev 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

“Dialogue: I and You,” the violin concerto, concludes with the soloist’s long, slowly depleting, sky-high A, which Duffek said might suggest “the soul having risen to heaven after a long earthly fight.” At 90, a Composer Is Still Sending Out Blasts 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

In “Asko or Glasgow,” minor 11th chords wash over the soloists with warm, glimmering harmonies. Review: Songs That Defy the ‘Quotidian Nature of Evil’ 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

Mr. Haber later discovered that this was in protest of his use of a female soloist to sing sacred texts — taboo for some observant Jews. Whispers of an Italian-Jewish Past Fill a Composer’s Music 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

The soloists, including a cellist, a clarinetist and a pianist, are also drafted into playing the percussion instruments, many spread around the hall. From Heaps of Junk, a Melodious Clang 2010-10-04T21:33:00Z

It was an astonishing example of a musician playing way out of his skin – and one who had never been in Ellington's front rank of star soloists. 50 great moments in jazz: Duke Ellington plays Newport jazz festival 2010-04-06T11:02:00Z

Richard Watkins was the soloist in Weber's Horn Concertino, his tone distinguished in its refined mellowness; he even pulled off the unusual "chords" the composer asks for – one note played, the other hummed. Britten Sinfonia/Wigglesworth ? review 2010-12-01T22:29:00Z

Llˆyr Williams was the soloist in Schoenberg's Piano Concerto, bringing his customary clarity and insight to the playing, balancing precision with expressive tone, as well as underlining the quirky playfulness of the final Giocoso. BBCNOW/Fischer |Classical 2010-06-25T21:00:00Z

Lewis merely gives soloists some advice regarding what not to do, when entering the fray. It’s Alive! It’s With the Band! A Computer Soloist Holds Its Own 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z

When the symphony returns on May 30 and June 1, it will be joined by Ravel's Piano Concerto in G, with Hèléne Grimaud as soloist. With Dudamel and Mozart, there's life in the old 'Linz' yet 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

The visit was initially broached by Lisa Batiashvili, an international violin soloist of Georgian origin who has played with the Philharmonic. Philharmonic Overseas Visit Canceled 2010-09-24T17:30:00Z

But a steady stream of guest conductors and guest soloists colors each symphonic season. Search for Gerard Schwarz's successor at SSO is a broad-ranging and discreet one 2010-05-21T22:07:00Z

The concert also included, if I remember, Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony and Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, with Serkin as soloist. Times Critics Remember Philharmonic?s Earlier Days 2010-05-07T20:49:00Z

Usually a soloist performs the national anthem for the annual “Capitol Fourth” celebration in Washington. John Williams to debut new version of US anthem 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

But there was so much to praise in the superb lineup of vocal soloists, the high quality of the players, and the sense of drama throughout all the participating ensembles. All the stars align for a stirring St. Matthew Passion at SSO 2014-02-22T20:45:27Z

The soloists are a mix of voice types. Music Review: ‘Oceanic Verses,’ at Pace, in River to River Festival 2012-06-26T21:49:08Z

This powerhouse saxophonist boasts the academic cred of holding a faculty position at Berklee College of Music and the mainstream cool factor of having served as a soloist in Beyoncé’s band for years. 10 Earshot Jazz Festival 2018 shows not to miss 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Butt uses 10 singers – five soloists, reinforced by five of what he calls "ripienists" whom he adds and subtracts as the textures suggest in the choruses – together with an orchestra of 19 players. Bach: Mass in B minor 2010-07-22T21:35:00Z

Here it was Virginie Verrez, who brought the bundled brilliance of her voice to this modest part and otherwise put on a brave face as she was upstaged by soloists from the orchestra. Review: ‘Spanish Nights’ of Falla and Massenet 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

I recall Colin, at a meal with soloists and others, after a major Tippett performance, mischievously ejecting bits of food off a fork at others around the table. Sir Colin Davis remembered: 'He worked little miracles' 2013-04-15T18:13:39Z

A strobe light captures the soloist midair, again and again, an effect that, on Tuesday, elicited awe-struck cheers from the audience. Dance Review: Parsons Dance Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary 2014-01-19T22:21:59Z

The parade of beautiful numbers, the soloist standing up and sitting down, the choir standing up and sitting down — that formalized visual approach is not what Handel was after. Maestro to embrace the theatrical side of ‘Messiah’ for SSO 2012-12-13T22:15:11Z

Terry provided Ellington, and Ellington’s compositional alter ego Billy Strayhorn, a soloist whose brilliance and fluidity thrived in the more harmonically and structurally complex music Ellington and Strayhorn were developing in the nineteen-fifties. The Sound of Musical Joy: Clark Terry’s Trumpet 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

Glover's introduction alerted listeners to the propriety of turning over this last concert to just the orchestra, without soloists or unusual repertory. Music of the Baroque left them shouting in the aisles 2011-05-24T16:14:47Z

The soloists Unity Phelan and Indiana Woodward will become principals, and Roman Mejia, a member of the corps de ballet, will rise to the rank of soloist, the company said in a news release. City Ballet Promotes Dancers Amid Veteran Departures 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

But given the scale of the work – 24 dancers, full orchestra, four soloists performing over two hours – it's a classic that has subsequently been performed only in special circumstances. L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato 2010-04-15T20:30:00Z

Mr. Sorey insists in a program note that this is a “non-certo,” without a traditional concerto’s overt virtuosity, contrasting tempos or vivid interplay between soloist and ensemble. Tyshawn Sorey: The Busiest Composer of the Bleakest Year 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z

His very hands, both as partner and soloist, are poetically compelling. In City Ballet?s Season One Jewel Still Sparkles 2010-03-01T05:54:00Z

Elsewhere — such as in “Der Neue Orpheus,” a cantata for soprano and violin soloists — Weill proved a master of balancing disparate voices, with a keen ear for precise orchestration. Kurt Weill’s Path From Europe to Broadway Was a Straight Line 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

She was one of the stars of 2011 documentary First Position, about young ballet hopefuls, and is a soloist with the Dutch National Ballet and Opera. Madonna to direct movie based on life of ballerina Michaela DePrince 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

The album includes a Stravinsky-influenced Divertimento for Nine Instruments; a pointillist and perky Clarinet Concerto, with Michael Norsworthy as soloist; and the premiere recording of Variations on a Theme by Edward Burlingame Hill. 5 Classical Music Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

She also sang in recital and was a soloist with many of the world’s leading orchestras. Lili Chookasian, Opera Singer, Dies at 90 2012-04-12T17:31:06Z

Orchestrated with the forces of maximal Romantic grandeur, the Rachmaninoff concerto tends to overpower soloists — who, denied a traditional cadenza in the first movement, must often settle for hand-cramping virtuosity that hardly anyone can hear. Review: Two Artists Arrive at the Philharmonic, Loudly 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z

Mr. Eschenbach and Pinchas Zukerman, the soloist, offered a surprisingly tepid reading of this emotional work. Music Review | New York Philharmonic: At Avery Fisher Hall, Modernism and Egyptian Mythology 2010-03-19T22:13:00Z

Stealthy and subtle, its central threesome of soloists — piano, violin and cello, as in Beethoven’s Triple Concerto — finds oases of calm amid flares of intensity from the orchestra. Hear the Piece That Won One of Music’s Biggest Prizes 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

But she never saw the soloist in her work as the Chosen One. Seven Dance Stars Take On a Daring ‘Rite of Spring’ 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

Ms. Lane and Ms. Copeland are long-term soloists who have been dancing ballerina roles for years, but the other two, less known, gained immensely from this opportunity. Ballet Theater Presents a New Version of ‘Raymonda’ 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

The orchestral accompaniment was uncharacteristically murky as the conductor kept out of his soloist’s way. Can two sensations make revolutionary music? Conductor Dudamel and pianist Trifonov try to find a spark 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

An intensely responsive soloist, he maneuvers with assurance as Mr. Alexander dances about him, bright chords and buzzing inflections laying fresh bait at every turn. The Playlist: Christina Aguilera’s Bizarre Puzzle, and 13 More New Songs 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

"We enjoy so much playing together," he said of Wang, one of the most acclaimed and popular soloists in the world. Lionel Bringuier kicks off Hollywood Bowl season with L.A. Phil 'family' 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Botstein ended the program by leading the fine soloists, robust chorus and excellent orchestra in a majestic account of this composer’s 40-minute “Magnificat.” Review: A Rare Showcase for Bach. His Sons, That Is. 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

But the soloists were all from the chorus. L.A. Master Chorale brings sense of community to 'St. Matthew' Passion 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

Ms. Sirota, 36, is a viola soloist, chamber musician, curator and broadcaster. Nadia Sirota, James Lemkin 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z

As if to make up for the disappointment, in recent years Lowther has performed in recitals of music from all three early, classic Davis/Evans albums, taking the soloist's role. Purple hazer: the many lives of Gil Evans 2012-11-07T18:07:54Z

The eminent pianist Maurizio Pollini is the soloist in Mozart’s beloved Piano Concerto No. 21 in C. Then Mr. Levine, acclaimed for his Mahler, will lead his players in the composer’s powerful Ninth Symphony. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Oct. 10-16 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

She has been a featured soloist with the orchestra 27 times, more than any other principal musician, according to the lawsuit. Star Flutist Sues Boston Symphony Over Pay Equity 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

Professional groups like Musica Sacra often draw soloists from the chorus, as the Trinity Choir did to good effect. Music Review: A Pharaonic Smackdown as Envisioned by Handel 2011-02-24T23:41:03Z

After tumultuous and prolonged applause, the orchestra and soloist repeated the final movement in another propulsive blaze of color. Music Review | Vladimir Jurowski: The Long and Short of Shostakovich, and Jazzy Ravel 2010-03-08T22:17:00Z

This is a virtuoso soloist to watch — one who knows how to connect and communicate with his audience, whose cheers were loud and long. Incandescent talent of cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and conductor Ruth Reinhardt shine with Seattle Symphony 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

With Rolf Hind as the dauntless soloist, it was a compelling experience, full of wonderful textures, extraordinary fusions of the solo piano with the tuned percussion in the orchestra and moments of stark, strange poetry. Lachenmann weekend - review 2010-10-25T21:29:00Z

Sunday; $25; 312-360-0234 or jazzshowcase.com Mike Jones: Though perhaps best known as house pianist for illusionists Penn & Teller in Las Vegas, Jones stands as a formidable soloist in his own right. From Mahalia tribute to Penn & Teller's pianist, a rich weekend in Chicago jazz 2011-05-19T11:40:00Z

But over the years, Jack White began to embark on careers as a soloist and producer. Rock duo The White Stripes announce break up 2011-02-02T19:53:16Z

He introduced me to the orchestra as if I were some world-famous classical soloist. Corinne Bailey Rae, Sir Mark Elder and other musicians' greatest on-stage moments 2010-08-05T20:30:00Z

The program continued with Williams’s “Five Mystical Songs,” with the baritone soloist Michael Nyby lyrical and able, if at times a little pale, in the solo line. Review | Strong new piece helps cathedral chorus close challenging season with a flourish 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

“It is important that the orchestra is together with the soloists,” Mr. Shchedrin whispered to Mr. Bischof-Ullmann, “but it is not the most important thing!” Music: The Making of a Maestro Moment 2011-02-16T12:30:06Z

I wish that Mr. Gergiev, rather than enabling his young soloist, had reined him in a little. The Mariinsky in Two All-Russian Programs at Carnegie Hall 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

The poise and muscular style of the young Dutch soloist, Simone Lamsma, was exactly to my taste, and evidently to the orchestra's, too. BBCSO/Brabbins – review 2013-04-21T16:26:50Z

They’ll perform Monday at Le Poisson Rouge, the granddaddy of “out of the box” programming, which books jazz, pop, rock, world, classical, even soloists from the Metropolitan Opera. Seattle Symphony hits the road for Carnegie Hall concert 2014-05-05T02:00:53Z

Interesting artistic choices, such as delegating extended choral passages to the soloists, were refreshing, though some clipped phrasing in the Kyrie and Gloria seemed slightly mannered. Choral Arts Society performs Bach’s Mass in B Minor at Kennedy Center

Charles Farnsley, the mayor of Louisville from 1948 to 1953, suggested that the orchestra, instead of spending money on glamorous soloists, commission new pieces: a policy that the board, though initially shocked, adopted. Survival Strategies for Orchestras 2011-05-25T18:35:56Z

The soloists weren't ideally matched, with Jubilant Sykes's bluesy style occasionally at odds with the more operatic approach of Paul Groves, Sally Matthews and Sarah Connolly. Prom 25: BBCSO/Robertson – review 2012-08-02T10:49:49Z

Van Zweden will make his first appearance on Sept. 27, with a gala featuring the cellist Yo-Yo Ma as the soloist in Dvorak’s Cello Concerto. The Philharmonic’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z

The First is infrequently performed, partly, no doubt, because it calls for tenor and mezzo-soprano soloists and a chorus. Chicago Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and Beyond 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

Then the Chinese pianist Yuja Wang, 27, was the soloist in a fiery yet uncommonly articulate account of Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto. Music Review: Los Angeles Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-03-18T20:43:32Z

Emanuel Ax was the animated and elegant soloist in the Mozart. Review: An Ambitious Project Returns at the Philharmonic 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z

Some programs were mercifully given two performances, like the “Messiah,” sublimely intimate with agile soloists joined by Le Concert des Nations and La Capella Nacional de Catalunya. The Classical Music Event of the Summer Is in Salzburg’s Shadow 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z

The novelty of the program, and in the end its most substantial draw, was the Bartok concerto, with Glenn Dicterow, the Philharmonic concertmaster, as the soloist. Music Review: Philharmonic Returns to New York; Glenn Dicterow Is Soloist 2012-05-21T21:48:51Z

Little else is known about his early life, until his sudden appearance as a soloist at the Paris Opera on March 14, 1797. The Dancer Who Made Beethoven’s Ninth Happen 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

In this fantastical piece the soloist shifts from passages of humming and “Rumtum de diddle” nonsense, to elegiac melodic writing, to passages where the voice leaps about in a super-high register. Music Review: Oliver Knussen in Composer Portraits 2013-04-19T21:04:30Z

And from the opening of Beethoven's "Leonore" Overture No. 3 through Sibelius' Violin Concerto with Karen Gomyo as soloist and, finally, in Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring," Grazinyte-Tyla was able to convey extraordinary sonic immediacies. Conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla lights up the San Diego Symphony with sparkling sonics 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

The accompaniment to Grieg's Piano Concerto – Steven Osborne the fluent soloist – was distinctly ordinary, too. Proms 35 & 36: BBC Philharmonic/Storgårds; Glamorous Night – review 2012-08-10T11:11:19Z

The program ended with a sumptuous, limpidly molded account of Mozart’s popular Piano Concerto No. 21 in C, with Sonia Rubinsky as the expressive soloist. Music Review: New York Women?s Ensemble at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-12-01T23:46:05Z

Mr. Brüggen, who in 1972 founded an avant-garde recorder trio called Sour Cream, began his career as a recorder soloist and chamber musician. Frans Brüggen, Pioneer in Early Music, Dies at 79 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

Ehnes, who is the artistic director of the Seattle Chamber Music Society as well as an internationally renowned violin soloist, is a familiar and beloved figure here. A night of supercharged Bartok, sparkling Mozart at SSO 2014-03-14T18:08:01Z

The soloists - from `'A" to `'K" also did well, in roles that were less challenging vocally and more dramatically. New Glass opera "The Lost" premieres in Austria 2013-04-13T00:11:09Z

The cadenza of four soloists at the end of the slow movement and the oboe solo in the trio of the Menuet, with a lovely high D from the assistant principal oboist, were particularly beautiful. Guest conductor sets a fast tempo for Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

He later joined the Sadler’s Wells Theater Ballet — it would become the Royal Ballet — eventually being named a soloist. David Howard, Revered Teacher of Dancers, Dies at 76 2013-08-19T00:50:27Z

A wobbly, high walkway creates a sense of alpine vertiginousness, with the musicians, members of the ENO orchestra here playing with the assurance of soloists, perched aloft on a platform. Aida; Elegy for Young Lovers; O Sonho 2010-05-01T23:07:00Z

The 33-year-old Italian avant-gardist had set out to find ways that complexity could be rooted in theatrical gesture and reflect the personality of a distinctive soloist. The L.A. music scene as seen through Berio's Sequenzas 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

Philharmonic and serves as featured soloist for Bach’s Violin Concerto No. 1. Weekend Picks for Jan. 11-15: 'I Am My Own Wife,' ‘PST: Live Art LA/LA,' MLK Day and more 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

Mr. Roberts, who originally hails from Perth, Australia, was an especially commanding soloist throughout the set, though there were stretches — notably on “Brilliant Corners” — when his tone and phrasing evoked Branford Marsalis. Music Review: Jeff (Tain) Watts’s Quartet Opens Series at Minton’s 2014-04-13T21:21:46Z

Håkan Hardenberger is top of his field, about as internationally celebrated as it's possible for a classical trumpet soloist to be. BBCSSO/Hardenberger ? review 2011-03-25T22:00:02Z

Not only were the soloists’ changing achievements illuminated: it was clear that the contrasting characteristics of Benaroya Hall’s two auditoriums played a major role in the change. Smaller venue means more splendor in St. John Passion 2014-03-02T17:52:41Z

Their runs and riffs propelled the soloists to a peak where violin and cello traded emphatic statements before agreeing on a joyous ending. Taipei Symphony makes Strathmore debut with pride and passion 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z

Her brother was a soloist with the Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus. Linda Ronstadt never stopped singing 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

The first half consisted of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto with Hélène Grimaud the confident soloist, though her tonal range was on the forceful side, with little sense of the work's grace. LPO/Jurowski ? review 2010-12-06T22:00:00Z

The dancer, 32, with green eyes and an unruly shock of dishwater blond hair, looked fit if somewhat chunkier than in his halcyon days as a Bolshoi soloist. Out of Prison for Acid Attack, Dancer Hopes to Get Back to the Bolshoi 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

The career of a high-wattage soloist demands not only prowess but also politesse: pressing the flesh, dining with patrons, smiling at audiences. Paul Zukofsky, Virtuoso Violinist and Literary Executor, Dies at 73 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

The other two concerts are Joshua Bell’s appearance with the orchestra as conductor and soloist on Feb. 11 and Christoph Eschenbach’s final concert as music director on June 17, with Beethoven’s 9th. American music for an inaugural week 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

One fascinating aspect of the plan was that the same group of vocal soloists was employed in both works. Smaller venue means more splendor in St. John Passion 2014-03-02T17:52:41Z

In particular it presented, at the end of its first half, the Odissi dancer Sujata Mohapatra, who — as Saturday’s performance proved — is one of the great dance soloists of our time. Dance Review: Performers Showcase Classics at DanceFest India! 2013-07-01T21:42:40Z

But the whole thing was flawlessly dovetailed, and at least as neat as the regular setup for Beethoven, involving a separate soloist and conductor. Philharmonia/Schiff ? review 2011-03-24T21:45:01Z

Mr. Hrusa is a charismatic conductor with a particular knack, evident in “Scheherazade,” for minutely shaping a string melody so that an entire section appears to play with the same effortless freedom as a soloist. Memo to the New York Philharmonic: Louder Isn’t Better 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

There's magic in the concerto, too, as the soloist guides us through a world rich in mystery, murmurs and transcendent beauty. Hall?/Knussen - review 2011-02-06T17:50:05Z

Sharma has won soloist awards at the Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival, Essentially Ellington and other festivals. Roosevelt High School sends student to Grammy Band — again 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

Round table discussions with orchestra conductors and soloists will follow some performances, according to festival staff. In Transit Blog: This Prague Spring Features Music 2012-05-12T00:00:48Z

The writing for the soloists is at times cruelly exposing, while the relationships between them constantly shift: the piano is nearly excluded at one point; at another, the work threatens to become a cello concerto. LPO/Eschenbach – review 2012-11-15T17:59:00Z

From 1949 on she danced lead and soloist roles in the company’s triumphant first three tours of North America. 2010-02-06T07:29:00Z

Nelson Freire, an elegant player who performs too infrequently in New York, is the soloist in the Beethoven. The Week Ahead: Aug. 14 ? 20 2011-08-11T15:36:07Z

The first of the Met’s three major unions to reach an agreement on a new contract was the American Guild of Musical Artists, which represents chorus members, soloists, dancers and stage managers, among others. The Fate of the Met Opera’s Fall Season Lies in Its Orchestra Pit 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z

The centenarian Manoel de Oliveira directed this exquisite yet anguished spectacle, a grand piece of cinematic chamber music for a cast of mighty soloists. Movies 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

After a deliberative middle section, the final one, “Fascinating Blue,” breaks into gnashing back and forth conflicts between the soloist and orchestra, which sometimes battles itself. Review: New World Symphony at Carnegie Hall With Anne-Sophie Mutter 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

Her loose, roving essays cohere because they are rooted in her sensibility, in what Elizabeth Hardwick called “the soloist’s personal signature flowing through the text.” From Justin Bieber to Martin Buber, Zadie Smith’s Essays Showcase Her Exuberance and Range 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

Berg's Violin Concerto, which was written in memory of Manon, was performed eloquently by soloist David Adams. Orchestra of WNO/Koenigs – review 2013-01-22T15:33:16Z

Of his dozen or so works for soloists with large ensembles, the Violin Concerto exhibits the greatest integration of solo and accompaniment, their musical responsibilities equally shared in a sort of inseparable embrace. CD reviews: Two lyrical recordings of classic 20th-century scores 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

The main event, the concerto, was Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2, in which the Canadian soloist James Ehnes made his NSO debut. Restrained and urbane, Noseda leads NSO in strong Rachmaninoff 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

Which was no surprise, given the overall quality of the festival orchestra players: members of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and soloists handpicked by Mr. Abbado. Lucerne Festival in Switzerland Aims for Accessibility 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

Is the in-the-moment interaction between soloist and accompanist so easily written off? Music Review: ?Portals,? From Tim Fain, at Symphony Space 2011-09-26T22:08:04Z

I was especially looking forward to hearing the Piano Concerto No. 1, with Emanuel Ax as soloist. When Coronavirus Cancels Concerts, Critics Put on Headphones 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

Wednesday’s concert, at 7:30 p.m., pairs Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2, featuring the pianist Emanuel Ax as soloist, with Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. Classical & Opera Listings for Sept. 25-Oct. 1 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

He and Schwarz seemed in complete rapport with each other, orchestra and soloist exactly together and in balance, so that Lill's fine playing could easily be heard. Momentous Mahler, sprightly Mozart at Seattle Symphony 2012-04-06T16:51:04Z

The two dancers are considered among the world’s leading soloists and recently performed as guests with American Ballet Theater to positive reviews. ArtsBeat Blog: Two Stars Leaving Bolshoi Ballet for Theater in St. Petersburg 2011-11-14T18:14:50Z

Ms. Boylston — who will dance six lead roles in this Met season — is only by a fraction the most outstanding of several talented female soloists. American Ballet Theater Holds Its Spring Gala 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

The company, which lost $150 million in earned revenues during the pandemic, recently struck deals to cut the pay of its choristers, soloists and stagehands. As New York Reopens, It Looks for Culture to Lead the Way 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z

In the two years he was there, I went from understudy to soloist, and when Aurélie arrived, I was worried. A Paris Opera Ballet Étoile on Being Young, Gifted and Successful 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

Night after night on this juggernaut tour, orchestral soloists measure out their lines in milliseconds with none of the freedom to let a phrase breathe that is the mark — and magic — of a concert performance. Review: In ‘The Lord of the Rings in Concert,’ Musicians in Sync With a Soundtrack 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

The orchestra on the whole acts as an even larger sheng and duels with the soloist; finally, the sheng and the full orchestra create a sonic unity by acting as a “hyper-sheng” of a kind. The Philharmonic Takes on a Composer of Puzzles and Turns 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

Britten's early, ambitiously serious concerto gave the young players an exercise in finding eerie instrumental complements to a fleet soloist. National Youth Orchestra is sensational at Disney Hall 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Zacharias performed as conductor and soloist, eliciting crisp and transparent textures from the orchestra, with sharply etched phrases and an underlying tension in the strings adding dramatic scope. Music Review: Schumann and Zimmermann at Carnegie Hall 2010-03-22T21:20:00Z

So the New York Philharmonic can surely have found no more suitable a soloist than Aimard to help observe the centennial of Ligeti’s birth. Celebrating the Music of Ligeti: ‘The Incarnation of a Free Spirit’ 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z

Katherine Needleman, the orchestra’s principal oboist, was soloist, her ethereally beautiful sound ideally matched with string playing of the utmost subtlety. Review | Despite its troubles, BSO’s concert of American music is brilliant 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

It can also be difficult to be a soloist. | Lauren Lovette: Lauren Lovette Dances in New York City Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ 2013-12-20T20:36:09Z

And in the wildly eclectic third movement, Kernis pushed the soloist toward the frontiers of technique, with double-stop runs and a final cadenza so scarily difficult that audience members were gasping in disbelief. Review: New concerto was written for powerhouse violinist — and he delivered 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

Hodges has given up the idea of becoming a professional soloist. A Violinist Rethinks Her Devotion to Music, With Emotion and Erudition 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z

The concerts, conducted by David Robertson, include Mr. Williams’s “The Imperial March,” from the movie “Star Wars”; his bravura tuba concerto with the orchestra’s own Alan Baer as soloist; and Holst’s ever popular “The Planets.” Classical Music Listings for May 20-26 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

Thomas, with the superb Gil Shaham as soloist, then turned to Berg’s Violin Concerto, one of the greatest works of the 20th century. Review: Michael Tilson Thomas, a Podium Hero, Returns 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

The soloist in the Beethoven concerto, Jonathan Biss, was smooth and subtle when the orchestra returned after his first-movement cadenza, but strangely muted elsewhere. Music Review: The New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-25T22:36:15Z

Pavel Trojan Jr., a festival representative, said in an email that the festival “brings the best symphonic orchestras, ensembles, soloists and conductors to Prague.” Spring Symphonies in Prague 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

It's the same with the supplications of the tenor soloist – here, the excellent Barry Banks – that ripple over the massed ranks of the choir and orchestra with fragile grandeur. Grande Messe des Morts – review 2012-06-28T17:11:53Z

Each woman, each man here, is a soloist. Review: L.A. Dance Project’s Eclectic Balancing Act 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

Night after night, the arena fills with “promenaders,” standing ticketholders who pay 6 pounds to see the orchestras, chamber ensembles, choirs and soloists. Cheap Tickets Are the Best Tickets at the Proms 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

The opening slow movement features a dialogue between soloist and three offstage horns, and the work includes a virtuoso cadenza, played expertly by Mr. Purvis. Music Review: Penderecki Conducts His Work at Carnegie Hall 2010-05-02T20:59:00Z

He wears them even in this darkened studio, ever since he was targeted in a Mafia-style revenge plot last year, when a thug hired by an embittered Bolshoi soloist threw sulfuric acid in Filin’s face. Nearly blind from an acid attack, the Bolshoi Ballet’s director still has an eye for beauty

With the Schumann piano concerto, featuring Nicholas Angelich as soloist, Morlot is trying to counteract what he sees as a neglect of a great composer. Composer Elliott Carter’s symphonic gift for the SSO 2013-01-31T23:01:18Z

The fifth and last of Beethoven’s landmark piano concertos gets a Seattle Symphony outing with French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, praised for his originality and flamboyance, as soloist. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for January 2020 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

Of course with the brilliant young Anthony McGill, a principal clarinetist at the Met, as soloist, the performance was a sure thing. Music Review: Luisi Crosses Border To American Territory 2012-01-16T22:54:23Z

He was highly sought after as a soloist in films from the 1940s through the 1960s. Jerry Adler, Harmonica Virtuoso, Dies at 91 2010-03-21T23:58:00Z

Copeland helped break ground as an African American female soloist for the American Ballet Theatre. Ballet dancer Misty Copeland has 2-book deal 2013-01-30T20:01:04Z

Its role of Jesus and its bass arias were specialties of his, and he performed it, as chorister or soloist, more than 100 times. Celebrated Bass-Baritone Plans a Surprise Debut at Conducting 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

Thus in the manner of the traditional concerto in which soloist and orchestra represent the individual against the masses, Josefowicz becomes the modern woman facing off against a hostile society. Violinist Leila Josefowicz is a powerful storyteller in John Adams' 'Scheherazade.2' 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

Christine Rice, a mezzo-soprano, was the appealing soloist, though she was not always successful in projecting over the orchestra. Music Review: Fabio Luisi With the Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-17T15:15:08Z

Almost every season at the New York Philharmonic, gifted artists in their 20s, sometimes even younger, are soloists in concertos. Music Review: The Pianist Paul Lewis Makes His Philharmonic Debut 2014-04-11T21:43:04Z

It’s not every day that a young superstar like Daniil Trifonov, the sensational Russian pianist, agrees to be just one of five soloists in a marathon concerto concert. Review: In ‘Folk, Form, and Fire,’ Hosting a Party of Five for Prokofiev 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

Over the past year or so, his memoir, “Words Without Music,” appeared, along with historic re-releases and a spate of new recordings by top-notch soloists. Taking Philip Glass to a place he need not go 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

The core of this 42-minute work, scored for orchestra, chorus, children’s chorus and soprano soloist, is a setting of passages from the Jewish hymn of praise that is recited while mourning the dead. Not Just ‘West Side Story’: Celebrating Bernstein’s Symphonies 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

But some of his most compelling work is as a soloist. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

As in the premiere, the soloists here are Cynthia Phelps and Rebecca Young, the orchestra’s principal and associate principal violists. The Week Ahead: April 10 ? 16 2011-04-08T13:57:40Z

British-born maestro Edward Gardner spurred the Seattle Symphony, SSO Chorale, and three particularly fine soloists forward in a performance of Edward Elgar’s “The Dream of Gerontius” that never lost focus or momentum. ‘Gerontius,’ where have you been? Seattle Symphony brings seldom-heard piece to vibrant life 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

The violinist Kyu Young Kim was the leader and an eloquent soloist in a vivid account of Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony, an arrangement of his String Quartet No. 8. Music Review: A String Ensemble at Play: Body Language and Sheer Exuberance 2011-01-09T23:01:27Z

Bob Telson's music shifts seamlessly between rousing gospel hymns, muggy blues and honeyed doo-wop, while the multiple soloists revel in every opportunity to show off their scintillating high notes and stylistic flourishes. The Gospel at Colonus 2010-08-22T14:51:00Z

In passages, the soloist seems to be trying out a kind of rag, but while the rhythm has a gentle, low-slung swing, the piano never finds its footing. Two Coasts, Two Concertos: Adès and Adams Offer Piano Premieres 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

The piece conjures echoes of 1970s “Ping-Pong diplomacy,” with the violin part serving as an intermediary between the percussive soloists and the orchestra. Watch Ping-Pong Make Its New York Philharmonic Debut 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z

A "Swan Lake" can thrill you with just a great Prince and Swan Queen, but "Sleeping Beauty" needs classical multitudes — especially sparkling women soloists. L.A. Ballet delivers a classically pure 'Sleeping Beauty'

But it’s slightly easier to forgive unimaginative programming when the performance is as spirited and full-bodied as it was with Yefim Bronfman as soloist. Review: The Philharmonic Tries Out Another Temporary Home 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

It made sense to shine a spotlight on Mr. Moldrup: With his big-hearted sound and deeply communicative playing, he is the star of the trio and a soloist of growing renown in his native Denmark. Review: Danish Piano Trio Shares Well-Loved Sounds and Little-Known Gems 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

A gifted singer from girlhood on, she made her professional debut in the 1940s as a soloist on the radio show “Hymns of All Churches,” broadcast nationally on the Columbia network. Lili Chookasian, Opera Singer, Dies at 90 2012-04-12T17:31:06Z

Bell and Zukerman both will be doing double-duty as soloists and conductors of the London-based orchestras they serve as music directors – the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and the Royal Philharmonic, respectively. Wang, Lang, Ma and Bell rule Philharmonic Society's 15-16 season 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

The vocal soloists were not the best St. Thomas has put forward. Music in Review 2011-02-20T23:48:45Z

It was as a soloist that he emigrated to New York in 1921, lured with a fraudulent promise of concerts. 120 CDs Later, a Conductor’s Legacy Is Still Uncertain 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z

The soloists weren’t singing in that first rehearsal, but the baritone Russell Braun, who takes on the part of the Man opposite Anne Sofie von Otter’s Woman, was there to listen. Peter Eotvos Prepares the Opera ‘Senza Sangue’ 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

A talented girl soloist in Howard Goodall's tricky "The Lord is My Shepherd" hit every note, pure and bell-like. Choir of the Year 2010 ? review 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z

Ms. Wang was an unfailing, cool to the touch, detailed soloist. Two Coasts, Two Concertos: Adès and Adams Offer Piano Premieres 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

Yet its strange and not entirely convincing amalgam of quirky, idiosyncratic humour with refined lyricism found a notable exponent in soloist Kirill Gerstein, who attacked its virtuoso demands with a combination of brilliance and sensitivity. Prom 56: BBCSO/Bychkov ? review 2011-08-28T14:44:08Z

Mr. Tetzlaff, who will return to Carnegie Hall next season as the featured performer in a Perspectives series, is internationally renowned as an orchestral soloist and recitalist, and valued for his intensity and finesse. Music Review: 3 Players Make Odd Pairing Singular 2010-03-02T22:24:00Z

Bruckner’s five-movement piece for orchestra, chorus and soloists is longer than most Te Deums but fleeting by the standards of a man known for his gargantuan symphonies. Music Review: Collegiate Chorale Sings Tippett and Bruckner at Carnegie 2012-02-05T22:40:45Z

Hélène Grimaud was the heavyweight soloist in the Emperor Concerto, grippingly presented as a massively assertive statement, with not so much as a hint of period practice anywhere. Music of Today; Philharmonia/Salonen 2010-10-01T21:40:00Z

Though Meredith Monk is often spoken of as if she were a soloist, she’s very often a collaborator, and a marvelous one. Review: Meredith Monk and Anne Waldman, in Playful Collaboration 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z

Although the winds and brass were usually in tune as a section, too often a soloist failed to match the strings. National Festival Orchestra well drilled in penultimate concert 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z

Vivaldi’s Concerto in B minor for Four Violins, featuring stellar Philharmonic soloists, was played as planned, along with Ravel’s “Bolero,” which ended the program. Music Review: The Tried and the True Step in After the Storm 2010-12-29T22:05:42Z

This more visceral piece from 2011, to plangent Arvo Pärt, deploys one anguished soloist after the next in the center of the stage. Dance Review: Paul Taylor’s Junior Ensemble Performs at Pace 2014-04-25T21:59:14Z

Peck assigned six soloists a series of knotty duets that spoke more strongly about body sculpture than romance, then shattered those sculptures gymnastically before his inventive canonic gambits culminated in a mass collapse. Hollywood Bowl show marks a breakthrough for homegrown L.A. dance troupes 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

And yes, some of the young soloists’ voices — that of the Eurydice, Francesca Aspromonte, in particular — had that typical straight, slightly reedy, almost folk-singer quality that comes when trained singers perform without vibrato. Gardiner leads pastoral celebration with memorable ‘Orfeo’ 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

Gary Thor Wedow conducted Juilliard415, the orchestra representing the school’s historical performance program; the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, superbly trained by Julian Wachner and always expressive; and student and professional vocal soloists. Music Review: Bach’s ‘St. Matthew Passion,’ Presented by Juilliard 2014-03-19T19:36:07Z

Sibelius offered the premiere to the Three Choirs instead of a choral work, and the soprano Aino Ackté, for whom it was written, was the soloist. Philharmonia/Ashkenazy – review 2013-07-29T19:05:10Z

Here many of the female members of the chorus, Musica Sacra, were strewn among the orchestra, and the vocal soloists took places surrounded by choristers. Music Review: Orchestra of St. Luke?s at Carnegie Hall 2012-04-15T21:04:44Z

But as with extravagant conductor fees, it also seems unsustainable to pay star soloists huge fees. Survival Strategies for Orchestras 2011-05-25T18:35:56Z

To end Mr. Langrée conducted the orchestra, the Concert Chorale of New York, the Young People’s Chorus, six vocal soloists and a brilliant pianist, Kit Armstrong, in Beethoven’s “Choral Fantasy.” Review: A Youthful Experiment Kicks Off Mostly Mozart 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

Then he let it pop, and soloist and orchestra were off on a high-speed race to the finish line. Music Review: Boston Symphony Orchestra Opens the Tanglewood Festival 2013-07-07T21:57:38Z

But the most explicit tribute to Bach comes roughly five minutes in, when the first-violin soloist plays a scale reminiscent of the broken D major scale that opens the Fifth Brandenburg. Steve Reich Talks About His First Orchestral Work in 30 Years 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

The piece began with a chain of solos, each overwrought and each abruptly stopped when another dancer grabbed and subdued the soloist. Choreographer Rosanna Gamson delivers a 'Restless' night of dance at REDCAT 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z

There is a piano concerto — the portentous No. 20 in D minor — with the elegant pianist Nelson Freire as the soloist. The Week Ahead: July 29 — Aug. 4 2012-07-30T13:57:52Z

For the Stravinsky he rearranged the orchestra so that principal double bass Nikita Naumov sat where the principal cello usually would, and so featured almost as a soloist. SCO/Fischer – review 2013-02-03T18:43:21Z

A founding member of the Composers String Quartet, Ms. Ajemian also had an active career as a soloist. Anahid Ajemian, Violinist and New-Music Champion, Dies at 92 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

The interaction between soloist and group is especially impressive — as composition but also as emotional expression, touching on pain. ‘ETM: The Initial Approach,’ Debuts at Jacob’s Pillow 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

“Still, I don’t think there ever has been any Seattle album with such diversity from track to track, with all these soloists. Every song is different, but it’s a cohesive whole, and one with depth.” Ryan Lewis speaks on the year of Team Macklemore 2014-01-26T01:13:42Z

The vocal soloists, drawn from the choir, ranged from adequate to good. Music Review: Trinity Choir and Baroque Orchestra?s Bach at One - Review 2012-01-03T23:20:10Z

The violin soloist does these loops against that recurrent pattern, sparking some of the joy that comes through in your writing about driving. How Classical Music Can Help You Hear the Open Road 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z

Mr. Carter never lacked for commissions from major orchestras, soloists and chamber groups, and late in life he was able to impose conditions on those who sought his works. Elliott Carter, Composer of the Avant-Garde, Dies at 103 2012-11-06T03:06:19Z

In 11 songs that flow together in an unbroken monologue, the soloist continuously wrestles with questions of faith, drawing on sources in Aramaic, Czech, Moravian dialect, Spanish, English and Sanskrit. Online, Simon Rattle Gives a Preview of His Future in Munich 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet was the soloist in a powerhouse performance that followed Bartók's requested platform layout with the pianist surrounded by the orchestral percussion. Prom 15: LPO/Jurowski ? review 2011-07-27T09:54:07Z

The soloist here was the young tenor Joseph Kaiser, who won fans at the Metropolitan Opera this spring singing Flamand in Strauss’s “Capriccio,” which starred Renée Fleming. Music Review: Unfinished Works at Mostly Mozart at Lincoln Center - Review 2011-08-28T19:03:32Z

Shortly before his death, he finished recording his newest composition - a setting of the story of Christ's death and resurrection for narrator, instrumentalists, soloists and small chorus. 'Creole Beethoven' composer, arranger dead at 81 2011-09-07T18:44:08Z

The presence of a fine pianist, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet as soloist in the Beethoven, was not enough to lure me to that concert. A Bracing Breath of Spring Air From All Directions 2011-04-29T16:17:11Z

At first there was only a single vocal melody, sung either by a soloist or a small group of male clergy. Who invented music? The search for stone flutes, clay whistles and the dawn of song 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

As if that weren’t enough, there’s also Shostakovich, plus Sibelius’s Violin Concerto, with the inimitably probing Leonidas Kavakos as soloist. Classical Music Listings for March 18-24 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

After intermission Mr. Dutoit led vocal soloists, the men of the Philadelphia Singers Chorale and the orchestra in a compelling account of “Oedipus Rex,” Stravinsky’s 50-minute -oratorio. Music Review: A Stravinksy Program With Ancient Inspiration 2011-05-04T18:58:03Z

Its immense size — chorus, four soloists, organ, large orchestra — may be a bit to blame. Philharmonic to Perform Beethoven?s ?Missa Solemnis? 2010-06-18T14:41:00Z

Mr. Peck has been one of City Ballet’s soloists since 2013; at the start of his choreographic career, he was still in the corps. Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet Wraps Up a Memorable Winter Season 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

This foursome, led by the soloist Christian Tetzlaff, recently released a superb recording of Haydn and Schubert, and here they reprise that release’s account of Schubert’s tumultuous last quartet. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

A crew of corps de ballet members, six women and one man, head into the delayed winter season with a new rank: soloist. City Ballet Promotes Seven Dancers as Performances Resume 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z

With its use of four vocal soloists, there are echoes of the Ninth in much of the writing across the five movements. Under Gardiner's baton, Beethoven rocks 2012-11-18T18:25:12Z

At the Philharmonic’s own parks concerts, Mr. Gilbert is great at speaking to audiences and introducing music and soloists. Critic?s Notebook: Andrea Bocelli, Philharmonic and Friends in Central Park 2011-09-16T17:41:13Z

He performed in leading concert halls and became the preferred soloist of George Szell, the formidable conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra. Leon Fleisher, sublime pianist undaunted by mysterious hand malady, dies at 92 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z

Here, as part of the Lincoln Center Great Performers series, they turn their attention to Bach’s complete Brandenburg Concertos with soloists from their own ranks. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Jan. 31-Feb. 6 2014-01-31T00:02:45Z

Around them 2 female soloists, 4 supporting men and a corps de ballet of 12 women keep complicating the drama in new ways. Dance Review: Mercurial Dramas, Vertical and Horizontal 2011-06-02T22:00:35Z

Each consists of two arias and a recitative, and each is sung by a different soloist, in descending order from soprano to bass. Review: Juilliard415 Plays Haydn and Telemann, Evoking the Sun’s Arc 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

There was one outstanding performance: the brilliant violinist Jennifer Koh made an auspicious debut on a Philharmonic subscription series program as soloist in Lutoslawski’s “Chain 2: Dialogue for Violin and Orchestra.” Music Review: Lorin Maazel and New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-01-25T22:03:14Z

“I wanted to be more of a soloist,” he said, “but it was a seniority thing. There were about 10 guys ahead of me.” Clark Terry, Influential Jazz Trumpeter, Dies at 94 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

There was a veritable jollity to the opening movement, with distant echoes of the fairgrounds of his “Petrushka” in its circuslike mood — so jolly, indeed, that it kept drowning out the soloists in merry brass. Review | Homage to the Classical: NSO offers Mozart, jolly Stravinsky and Josefowicz 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

It's not an austerity choice – as a glance at the Barbican's stage, full almost to overflowing with the BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra and three vocal soloists, was enough to confirm. BBCSO/Bychkov ? review 2011-03-22T19:31:01Z

In reaction, the orchestra does not exactly roll over; rather, it seems to grow intrigued by the soloist. New York Philharmonic’s Next Leader Gives a Taste of Things to Come 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

The collaboration was unexpected from Ocean, a typical soloist, featuring two linchpins of pop radio’s split loyalty to euphoric dance music and bass-heavy Southern rap. Frank Ocean Is Making “Radio Pop,” at Last 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

Yet she has excelled as a concerto soloist and chamber musician and for the last 10 years has thrived during summers at the Lugano Festival in Switzerland. Classical Music on Disc, on DVD and in Books 2012-11-22T21:26:23Z

“It will have the audience, chorus members, musicians and soloists all in one place,” she said, “seeing this event unfold.” Berlin Philharmonic Plans Major Concerts in New York 2013-12-09T21:00:01Z

The Armenian violinist Haik Kazazyan was the soloist in Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2, an oft-programmed work among this lineup of rarities. Marius Constant Work on Riverside Symphony Program 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Giraudo celebrates the album’s release, shining a spotlight on not only the new music but also on dynamic soloists like the trumpeter Jonathan Powell and the saxophonist Todd Bashore. Jazz Listings for April 24-30 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

And yes, it’s “Messiah” season already: starting on Tuesday, and continuing through next Saturday, Gary Thor Wedow conducts Handel’s perennial favorite, with soloists including the countertenor Iestyn Davies. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Dec. 12-18 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Different combinations of the soloists also sang the various choruses, from the sweet nymphs of the opening pastoral to the desperate ghosts in Charpentier’s brilliant evocation of hell, whipping between calm and chaos. Opera Review: ‘La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers’ at St. Paul’s Chapel 2014-01-02T22:36:48Z

“On the surface, Asians are accepted in these realms of orchestras, ensembles and as soloists,” Kim said. Asians Are Represented in Classical Music. But Are They Seen? 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

The evening’s other guest soloist, Veronika Eberle, had enjoyed a highly successful local debut in coping with the fearsome technical demands of Berg’s Violin Concerto and making often lovely music in the process. Mahler’s challenge triumphantly met at SSO | Classical review 2012-11-30T19:07:07Z

She would become the NYCB’s first Asian American female soloist but writes that as a biracial dancer, she was habitually typecast as caricatures — the villain, the maid or the nurse, say, in “Romeo and Juliet.” Review | ‘Swan Dive’ gives voice to every suspicion you may harbor about professional ballet 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

The two others, on Thursday and Saturday, featured the Scottish pianist Steven Osborne, who was the soloist in a Mozart concerto in the orchestral concerts on Friday and Saturday evenings. Review: Steven Osborne Is Joined by 2 Collaborators at Kaplan Penthouse 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z

He provided an immaculate accompaniment to Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, in which soloist Akiko Suwanai's glossy tone and seamless legato made up for a certain blandness of character. BBCSO/Davis 2010-04-14T21:15:00Z

Mr. Terry was in the Ellington band during its spirited appearance at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island and was a featured soloist in Ellington recordings such as “Such Sweet Thunder.” Clark Terry, jazz virtuoso with Basie, Ellington and ‘Tonight Show,’ dies 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

He has remixed songs for the likes of the XX and Spoon, and as a soloist, his work has long incorporated nearly equal parts electronic effects and live performance. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

Mr. Fakir took his turn in the spotlight, warning “I’m not a soloist” before delivering a rewrite of “My Way” that praised the group and God. The Temptations and the Four Tops Hit Broadway 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

“I struggled internally with being cast in Tea as a person with Asian heritage,” said Georgina Pazcoguin, a City Ballet soloist who is part Filipino. Toning Down Asian Stereotypes to Make ‘The Nutcracker’ Fit the Times 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

In the Prokofiev concerto, Bringuier didn't exactly let his soloist lead, but he did partner very closely, as if happily taking energy from her. Review: Pianist Yuja Wang sets off fireworks of her own at the Bowl 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

The performance was heightened by the debut of Alexa Maxwell in the work’s soloist role. Review: Serving 4 Helpings of Balanchine, With Thunderbolts and Tornadoes 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z

On Friday at 8 p.m., they take Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony and Mozart — the Clarinet Concerto, with the magnificent Anthony McGill as soloist — to Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Classical Music Listings for June 17-23 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

It’s not unusual to encounter a violin soloist who also conducts the orchestra, particularly in the Baroque repertoire. Ponytail with passion: violinist, conductor and countertenor Dmitry Sinkovsky plays Benaroya Hall 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z

Garfield senior and trumpet player Riley Mulherkar was named outstanding soloist of the entire competition. Garfield, Roosevelt and Edmonds-Woodway musicians earn individual honors 2010-05-11T05:27:00Z

The program for his 100th birthday celebration at New York's Carnegie Hall included a new work, "Interventions," conducted by James Levine with Daniel Barenboim as soloist. Award-winning U.S. composer Elliott Carter dies at 103 2012-11-06T00:53:04Z

Not all of those soloists were perfectly polished, but there was something affecting about the bits of roughness. This Is the Best ‘Messiah’ in New York 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

In the arias Mr. Tritle and the orchestra players seemed to breathe along with the soloists. Music Review: Musica Sacra in Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-21T22:47:06Z

The four vocal soloists sat on high stools in front of a scrim, with the instrumental ensemble, conducted by Mr. Hearne, behind it. Music Review: A Flood Of Songs Washing Over a City 2010-08-25T22:45:00Z

In these, he advocated for quarter tones and dreamed up a double concerto for two soloists playing in different keys — a century before Ives. A Friend of Beethoven, Now Rediscovered in His Own Right 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

For his texts Stravinsky selected some popular Russian poems about weddings, setting them for chorus and four vocal soloists. Music Review: Mariinsky Choristers in ?Russian Stravinsky? 2010-04-25T22:11:00Z

All four movements exhibit a striking unanimity of intent shared by soloist, conductor and ensemble, with everything geared toward vivid contrast. Classical CDs: Gerstein, Gaffigan do justice to Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No. 1 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

Thursday’s first of three performances was gratifyingly good: strong leadership from Morlot, impressive singing from the soloists and chorus, virtuoso instrumental performances from the orchestra. Seattle Symphony and Chorale’s performance of Bach’s ‘Mass in B Minor’ is gratifyingly good 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

“The pig is the soloist, and all my music in this project is trying to support that voice.” In ?One Pig,? Matthew Herbert Finds Music in a Pig 2011-10-17T23:39:17Z

Jack Liebeck was the soloist in the Violin Concerto No 1, bringing idiomatic touches to a work that transplants folk fiddle gestures into the framework of a grand romantic concerto. RPO/Brabbins – review 2013-03-13T17:42:25Z

The commanding soloist, in his Philharmonic debut, was Alban Gerhardt, who also played the work’s world premiere with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, in 2018, and its American premiere with the Minnesota Orchestra in November. Review: She Returns to Lead the Philharmonic. For Real, This Time. 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

The CBSO's own Chorus and Youth Chorus were on their most responsive form, and soprano soloist Erin Wall, stationed as usual among them, proved incisive. War Requiem – review 2012-05-31T10:50:00Z

The score, which draws on Russian folk songs and liturgical chants, is written for four pianos — an oddity — and a hefty percussion section, in addition to a large chorus and four vocal soloists. Why Is Bronislava Nijinska Still Waiting in the Wings? 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z

Hindemith himself was a celebrated but unshowy viola soloist who left a huge catalogue of music for the instrument. Hindemith: Complete Viola Works, Vol 1 – review 2013-07-20T23:06:07Z

Glass makes heavy use of arpeggios and other musical structures which play over and over in the orchestra - with gradually emerging variations - while soloists or chorus repeat their vocal lines. Glass' meditation on Gandhi returns to Met 2011-11-06T17:45:13Z

By contrast, “Paths” splits the soloist’s personality in two. Two Juilliard Concerts, Bonded by Weather 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

Though he’s also one of the era’s most original soloists, his improvisational styles and ideas are inseparable from his group concept, and both get a vigorous renewal on the new album. Two New Recordings by Two Jazz Greats 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

While Arron’s yearly schedule includes a handful of outings as a symphony soloist, more than 90 percent of it is “wonderfully full” with chamber activity. Cellist Arron: chamber music champion, Seattle chamber-fest fan 2013-06-19T23:07:26Z

The soloist is Seth Parker Woods, and David Robertson conducts this enterprising ensemble in a livestreamed program that also includes Brett Dean’s “Testament” and Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in November 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gilbert was more leisurely in the introduction to the Brahms Violin Concerto, in which Pinchas Zukerman was the soloist. Music Review: Many Different Sounds In a Wide-Ranging Week 2010-10-15T21:26:00Z

Ms. Wang, hammering ostinato chords with immense force that belied her small frame, didn’t have the look of a soloist with accompaniment, but of a percussionist among others in an ensemble. Review: Yuja Wang Makes a Case for the Piano as Percussion 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

A huge Ukrainian flag stretched behind the musicians; at the end, the soloists took a bow wrapped in flags, and still more were waved in the audience. Review: A Ukrainian Orchestra Speaks With Quiet Intensity 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z

I don’t mind listening to recordings when I am accompanying a soloist. What makes a good conductor? Harmony — and ‘authority through knowledge.’ 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

Its programs follow a formula: nearly all include a noteworthy soloist, a premiere by an emerging composer and at least one repertory staple. Music Review: At Carnegie Hall, the New York Youth Symphony 2010-05-24T22:44:00Z

He packs a lot of excitement into small spaces, an integral ensemble player rather than a show-off soloist. Album review: Jimmie Vaughan, 'Plays More Blues, Ballads & Favorites' 2011-07-25T07:00:00Z

Raphael Hillyer, the founding violist of the Juilliard String Quartet and a soloist and teacher known for the warmth and expressivity of his tone, died on Dec. 27 in Boston, where he lived. Raphael Hillyer, Founding Violist of Juilliard Quartet, Dies at 96 2011-01-05T23:52:01Z

Strauss's Alpine Symphony gave the Bolívars' classy clarinet, oboe, and flute soloists the chance to shine. Sim?n Bol?var Youth Orchestra | Classical review 2010-03-24T21:45:00Z

Jean-Guihen Queyras was the appealingly direct soloist, beautifully capturing the deep veins of sadness that run through the last two movements. Prom 8: BBCSO/B?lohl?vek ? review 2011-07-21T10:00:34Z

An unassuming young man walked from the horn section to the front of the stage, where he stood as if he were a concerto soloist. A Young Horn Player Could Become ‘a Real Legend’ 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z

If Huebner has found his ideal niche at the Philharmonic, then Benjamin Hochman is a prime example of another New York type, the up-and-coming soloist. Two Young Pianists Take Manhattan 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

At the time he was a rising young soloist, especially eloquent in recital and chamber music. In Costa Mesa, the New York Philharmonic runs through the routine 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

A soloist might join your row for the second half of the concert. The 'L.A. Phil Effect' hits New York, Cleveland and beyond 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

New works spring up like dandelions amid the meadows of Britain's festivals, while his busy performance schedule – not least as the Britten Sinfonia's resident pianist – would put many soloists to shame. Melvyn Tan/Schubert Ensemble – review 2012-06-21T17:30:01Z

Three years ago, as a guest conductor, Mr. Gilbert led the Philharmonic and the soloist Christian Tetzlaff in performances of Ligeti’s Violin Concerto. Music: New York Philharmonic Stages Ligeti?s ?Grand Macabre? 2010-05-21T19:40:00Z

The orchestral percussionists first respond as what Lang calls "translators," catching the soloists' sounds and then conveying them to the rest of the orchestra with them. Twigs break, cans bang and L.A. Philharmonic soars with Mahler 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

The Fortas Chamber Music Concerts season was supposed to end on Tuesday night with a virtuoso soloist and a well-known string quartet playing a quintet by a neglected figure of the American avant-garde. Joyful clarinet meets laid-back quartet: Anthony McGill and Pacifica combine in the Fortas chamber series.

At 24, in the same amount of time it took Lennon and McCartney to become selfishly middle-class, Todd Rundgren is out the other side of the soloist's dilemma. Todd Rundgren: 'What I'm doing isn't even really music' – a classic interview from the vaults 2013-03-13T13:01:33Z

And Patrice Michaels, the soprano soloist on the album who also composed “The Long View,” is her daughter-in-law. Perspective | ‘Notorious RBG’ wanted to be a singer. Now, a CD celebrates her life. 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

The current roster of male soloists isn’t exactly overflowing with principal material. Dance Review: Angel Corella in ‘Swan Lake,’ His Ballet Theater Farewell 2012-06-29T21:51:05Z

Felix, of course, is a staple of the concert repertory, particularly in the form of his Violin Concerto, played on Sunday with Isabelle Faust as the soloist. Budapest Festival Orchestra Plays Avery Fisher Hall 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

Compared with the other two soloists, each with understated physical flair, Mr. Li cuts a less compelling figure. Review: Young Concert Artists Gala Features Three Rising Soloists 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

This season is giving several breaks to dancers at soloist and corps level; so did the recent “Nutcracker” series. Dance Review: Taking Flight: A Season of Revival 2011-01-28T23:27:03Z

At least among partnerships in which the pianist is a recognized soloist in his own right, I can think of no finer duo in lieder than this. 8 Classical Music Concerts to See in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Bychkov made a case for his claim, highlighting the chamber-music-like interchanges of soloists not only in the concerto but also in the symphony. Review: Semyon Bychkov Leads the New York Philharmonic 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

The evening will also feature the European premiere of Prokofiev’s “Concerto for Bass Drum and Orchestra,” with the soloist Joby Burgess. In Transit Blog: A London Music Series Redefines the Classics 2012-02-24T11:00:11Z

Laura Choi Stuart, the soloist, offered a lilting thread of sound atop this memorial to Lewis through his favorite composer — another sign of how well the chorus managed the tricky balance between sadness and celebration. After its leader’s death, the Cathedral Choral Society rallies 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

Carter scored his antiphonal concerto for piano and harpsichord soloist, with each accompanied by a small chamber orchestra. Music Review: American Soundscapes Ensemble at Carnegie Hall 2013-04-29T20:31:54Z

Justin Peck, the New York City Ballet soloist, has been appointed resident choreographer at City Ballet just two years after creating his first piece for the company. New York City Ballet Names Justin Peck as Choreographer 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

Crayford was the soloist in this, her interpretation a subtle balance of reverence and spontaneity. Mid Wales Chamber Orchestra/Slater 2010-05-18T22:00:00Z

Mr. Trifonov, who is the current star soloist of the Philharmonic’s three-week Rachmaninoff festival, was elected to the board on Nov. 13. Trifonov Joins Philharmonic Board 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

But she went on to enchant audiences as one of the lead soloists at Moscow's prestigious Bolshoi theatre. Russian opera's Galina Vishnevskaya dies at 86 2012-12-11T17:12:22Z

Then the pianist Aaron Diehl will be the soloist in Gershwin’s Concerto in F. The program ends with Dvorak’s “New World” Symphony. Classical Music Listings for Sept. 16-22 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

In 2003 I hadn’t played as a soloist with an American orchestra in nearly five years. My Story: Growing Acceptance for the Transgendered 2013-02-04T04:45:25Z

Director Michael Bobbitt’s spare yet effective staging created more than a whiff of Catfish Row, and drew three-dimensional characterizations from the strong soloists, even in formal concert dress. Review | ‘Porgy’ and ‘Simon’: Two works trying to fold black experience into Western canon 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z

What has changed over the years, far more than his command as a soloist, is the dynamic within his bands. Music Review: Away From His Desk, Up on the Bandstand 2011-04-01T22:58:20Z

Aside from the New York City Ballet soloist Adrian Danchig-Waring, none are officially affiliated with companies. Without Wheeldon, Morphoses Forges Ahead 2011-10-23T01:47:02Z

“It’s an orchestra. It’s a bass. And it’s a soloist. I mean, you got everything right there.” How Lonnie Smith Found an Unlikely New Collaborator: Iggy Pop 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

The performance features the highly regarded, Grammy-winning basso profundo Glenn Miller as soloist, upholding the famous Russian tradition of deep bass voices. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for September 2018 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

A strong quintet of vocal soloists compensated for some uneven instrumental solos. Choral Arts Society performs Bach’s Mass in B Minor at Kennedy Center

On Tuesday and Wednesday Mozart is no longer the main act, represented only in the Violin Concerto No. 4 in D with Joshua Bell as soloist in a program centered on Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8. Classical Music Listings for Aug. 12-18 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

Thereafter, she proves an adept jazz soloist herself, often tossing in some scrap of melody early, then picking it up a decade or so further into the plot, airing out the intrigue anew. ‘The Jazz Palace,’ by Mary Morris 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

The other vocal soloist, Christian Gerhaher, fresh from what was said to be a stunning performance of Schubert’s “Winterreise” at Lincoln Center, took things to an altogether higher level. Review: Vienna Philharmonic’s Familiar and Fierce Show of Brahms 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

Nicholas Angelich is the soloist for Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, which will be paired with Tchaikovsky’s evergreen Symphony No. 5. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Feb. 20-26 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

As a composer, he created works for performers ranging from soloists to bands to choirs. Saxophonist Yusef Lateef dies at age 93 2013-12-24T07:33:07Z

And he’s never taken a conducting lesson — beyond watching dozens of the world’s greatest conductors from the stage, playing with them as soloist. The music man: Josh Bell at mid-career 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

But in concertos by composers as varied as Mozart, Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev, whether for violinist or pianist, the soloists recede a bit too thoroughly into the orchestral textures. Geffen and Gustavo: Mixed Boons for the New York Philharmonic 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z

“If flowers have arrived for a corps de ballet dancer or soloist, but the ballerina hasn’t received any, we won’t present them onstage.” The Rules and Hazards of Presenting Flowers in Ballet 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

The program’s close, though, was a kind of primal scream, Tormis’s “Curse Upon Iron,” with two snarling male soloists, a ululating chorus, and Kaljuste’s drum beaten almost to the breaking point. Estonian choir brings artistry to unfamiliar music 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

The Children’s Chorus of Washington offered reedy innocence juxtaposed with the worldlier sound of soprano soloist Amy Owens. Review | Noseda, NSO find the fun in a sacred and profane program 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

A soloist, backed by the orchestra, also sang "New York, New York" as women inmates in top hats and coattails danced. Philippine prison orchestra in 1st public concert 2010-06-15T14:16:00Z

She said she had seen a soloist at the English National Ballet wear brown tights and shoes, when everyone else was in pink — “but she was a soloist.” Brown Point Shoes Arrive, 200 Years After White Ones 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z

They include Misty Copeland, the American Ballet Theater principal, as an aspiring dancer, who lives with her aspiring dancer boyfriend, played by the A.B.T. soloist Calvin Royal III, and pole dances to make ends meet. The Pirelli Calendar Finally Makes Women Subjects Instead of Objects 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

The classy female soloists, soprano Emma Bell – a renowned Handelian – and the versatile mezzo Christine Rice, easily filled the hall while remaining faithful to the music's intention. Handel's Messiah/ The Sixteen; Messiah: 500 Voices, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ? review 2010-12-26T00:04:02Z

Ms. Sciubba, best known as the singer for the rock band Brazilian Girls, will be the soloist. The Week Ahead: June 5 ? 11 2011-06-03T18:16:25Z

The brooding and glimmering alternate, subsiding into a low rumble as the soloist starts a lyrical line upward. Music Review: New York Youth Symphony at Carnegie Hall 2012-03-12T22:29:19Z

One soloist was the actress and singer Susanna Cibber, who had recently gone through a messy divorce, with whispers of infidelity, a ménage à trois and even sex at gunpoint. Music Review: ‘Messiah’ at St. Thomas and Alice Tully Hall 2012-12-17T05:15:05Z

Hodges, a longtime violinist, writes in this memoir about giving up the idea of becoming a professional soloist. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

One of its greatest champions, conductor Edward Gardner, will lead the Seattle Symphony, SSO Chorale and soloists in performances Dec. 1 and 3. Uplifting music, deep themes: Seattle Symphony to perform Elgar’s ‘Dream of Gerontius’ 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z

Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 2, with the Russian Kirill Gerstein as soloist, was poetic and impassioned, with a verve which carried through to Prokofiev's awkward and restless Symphony No 6. Götterdämmerung; BBC Proms – review 2012-07-21T23:05:54Z

The big pieces were Britten's Violin Concerto, with Gil Shaham, also in sneakers, as soloist, and Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition." National Youth Orchestra is sensational at Disney Hall 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

The cello soloist, Raphael Wallfisch, certainly played it as though he really believed in it, though. Prom16: BBCNOW/Van Steen – review 2013-07-25T13:30:00Z

The most exceptional feature was the use of an isolated male soloist, the outstanding Anthony Huxley, who became some kind of fertilizing spirit but seemed perpetually conflicted and ended in an image of desolation. City Ballet Features Works by Christopher Wheeldon and Troy Schumacher 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

The initial program will center on Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10 and a piece with a soloist, who has not yet been chosen. Carnegie Hall to Establish National Youth Orchestra in 2013 2012-01-11T21:00:13Z

The two were featured soloists on the recommendation of Carol Abramson, corresponding secretary for Arts Alive! Singing Gutierrez brothers focus on school 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z

The scene unexpectedly turns into a musical number where Rue leads as a soloist with a haggard look and disjointed body. How "Euphoria" challenges viewers’ expectations of what a television show should be 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

Lengthy, complex, and assertive, the new concerto demands almost superhuman agility and stamina of the soloist for whom it was written, and Ehnes rose to the challenge. Review: New concerto was written for powerhouse violinist — and he delivered 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

Shafer also enlists superb vocal soloists and a fine orchestra, forces that regularly draw a full house, as they did at a Sunday concert at the expansive National Presbyterian Church. City Choir delivers an operatic, drama-filled Mozart’s ‘Requiem’

Monk is more than a bandleader and a soloist. The Best of Thelonious Monk 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

Hawkins, who more or less single-handedly turned the tenor sax into a jazz soloist’s heavy weaponry in the nineteen-twenties, is roaring, robust, and good-humored. The Best of Thelonious Monk 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

There’s more of the festival’s namesake at the official opening night on Tuesday, when Mr. Langrée leads Emanuel Ax in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 14 and Erin Morley as soloist in two Mozart arias. Classical & Opera Listings for July 24-30 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

Nelsons will lead eight orchestral programs, including a Beethoven opener on July 10 featuring the “Emperor” Piano Concerto, with Ax as soloist, and the Fifth Symphony. Tanglewood Is Back This Summer, With Beethoven and Yo-Yo Ma 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

The program opened with familiar works that were surprisingly complementary to “Kraft”: Debussy’s “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun” and the Sibelius Violin Concerto in a rhapsodic performance with Joshua Bell as soloist. Music Review: Clash! Bang! Clink! Went the Orchestra 2010-10-08T17:47:00Z

That point was also reinforced by the choice of a local orchestra and choir, with an all-German quartet of soloists. At G-20, Beethoven Sends a Mixed Message to Trump 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

This rewarding new recording offers a captivating performance of a Harrison masterpiece for this instrument, the Suite for Violin with American Gamelan, with the fine violinist Gabriela Diaz as soloist. Classical Playlist: Carl Nielsen, Lou Harrison, Bach and More 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

In the finale, this emperor soloist tossed aside majestic reserve and engaged the musicians in a sly game of wits. Review: Strangers and Familiar Friends of Classical Music 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

The performances, by an expansive roster of regulars, as well as visiting ensembles and soloists, are typically so involving that they eclipse even the view. Music: Under Peskanov, Bargemusic Keeps Evolving 2010-05-20T22:17:00Z

It's a vast musical endeavour, involving a large choir, a children's choir, a chamber orchestra, a big orchestra, two male soloists and a great big dramatic soprano. Benjamin Britten: a top 10 2013-01-09T19:30:01Z

But her work has also attracted performers with more traditional dance backgrounds, including Trixie Cordua, 81, a former soloist with the Hamburg Ballet who has worked with John Cage. Florentina Holzinger Makes Everyone Uncomfortable 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

Using the same orchestration as Beethoven’s Ninth, minus its four vocal soloists, “Pachamama” is big, and deploys the emotive force of the “Dies Irae” from Verdi’s Requiem. Review: Two Years Later, a Beethoven Cycle Reaches Its Finale 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

While shaped along classical lines, the traditional concerto balance is altered by the absence of any conflict between soloist and orchestra: attention is held instead by the soloist's intricate engagement with a succession of instruments. BBCNOW/Outwater | Classical review 2010-03-19T22:05:00Z

No matter: all three soloists on Benaroya’s stage fashioned accounts of the utmost eloquence. A sublime, profound ‘War Requiem’ at SSO | Classical review 2013-06-14T18:03:36Z

They largely followed a template of spotlighting highly personable soloists and making a quiet point of incorporating works by Black composers after years of neglect. At Mostly Mozart Concerts, Casual Vibes and High Musical Values 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z

Violinist Julia Fischer will be a featured soloist in Spain and Germany. National Symphony Orchestra plans 2013 Europe tour 2012-06-05T18:11:18Z

Penderecki's concerto, premiered 13 years ago in Tokyo, vaguely follows the Baroque concerto grosso format of a small group of soloists in opposition to a large group of players. Concertos take the lead at L.A. Phil, L.A. Chamber Orchestra 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

Today, Ms. Chin, 53, is sought after by leading orchestras and soloists for her colorful, audacious and often darkly humorous music. Unsuk Chin Talks About Her Music and Influences 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

The hard-working oboe soloist, David Dickey, struggled in an early obbligato appearance but found a better groove thereafter. Review: Masaaki Suzuki Conducts Young Musicians in Bach 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

Already a world-class soloist, he is not yet 40. Hallé/Znaider – review 2012-05-25T18:06:41Z

Sometimes they play with the intense seriousness of orchestral soloists; at others they fiddle as if at a hoedown; at still others they strum the violin and viola like guitars. Spare Times for Children for Nov. 16-22 2012-11-15T23:10:06Z

The orchestra, as a single breathing organism, is Ms. Schneider’s instrument, but she also puts a great deal of responsibility on her soloists. Review: Maria Schneider Orchestra’s ‘The Thompson Fields,’ Connections to the Natural World 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

A dutiful soloist on this occasion, he failed to convey the brooding, dark-hued melodies with sufficient warmth and passion; the orchestra sounded similarly unconvincing. Case Scaglione Leads the Philharmonic and Joshua Bell 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

He will return to Southern California for a recital at the Ventura Music Festival in July and as a soloist with the New West Symphony in November. In Vadym Kholodenko, talent and tragedy mix 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

Marc-André Hamelin, the stunning Canadian virtuoso, was the soloist in Ravel's "Piano Concerto for the Left Hand" and Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue." Mark Swed hits the road for a weekend of SoCal orchestra listening 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

With the sensitivity of an opera conductor who loves his singers, Nelsons consistently scaled the orchestra’s sound to his soloists’ resources. The Boston Symphony Finds Surprises and Strengths in New Music 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

Remember when the NSO used to play there with major soloists? How I learned to stop worrying and love the mouse

Ensemble and soloist played with energy and commitment, with Mr. Hope demonstrating his usual combination of virtuosity and insight. Music Review: Max Richter’s Update to ‘Four Seasons’ at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-12-23T22:14:54Z

Which is what the orchestra, chorus and soloists of the Royal Opera performed, albeit in the expanded Mozart orchestration. The Royal Opera on tour in Japan 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z

Kabby Mitchell III, a former Pacific Northwest Ballet soloist who also teaches jazz dance, will make his Seattle Opera debut as choreographer. Attila the Hun invades Seattle Opera's 2011-12 season 2010-12-31T06:00:05Z

With a period-instrument band of 15 and a chorus of just 12 singers – and that included the soloists – this was as intimate a take on Handel's oratorio as you're likely to get. Dunedin Consort – review 2012-12-21T18:07:41Z

The day before Megan LeCrone, a soloist dancer with the New York City Ballet, turned 36, she got an urgent call from her longtime friend and fellow soloist Harrison Ball. They Fled the Coronavirus. Now They’re in Scenic Limbo. 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z

Ms. Cabell, who has made the oratorio a signature work, was the standout among the four soloists, singing with an alluring, honeyed voice and expressive commitment to text. Music Review: Collegiate Chorale Sings Tippett and Bruckner at Carnegie 2012-02-05T22:40:45Z

And the Met’s exceptionally versatile chorus takes a crucial role here as, Ms. Saariaho explained, “the sonic bridge between the soloists and the orchestra.” Your Guide to a Met Opera Milestone 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

Ms. Brandt has been the most outstanding classical stylist in Ballet Theater’s corps for some time; Ms. Shevchenko, a soloist, displayed an unsuspected luster. Ballet Theater Presents a New Version of ‘Raymonda’ 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

The cellist — principal cello of the Seattle Symphony, and the current concerto soloist — got a hero’s welcome as he came out to play the Dvorák Cello Concerto with the orchestra and music director Ludovic Morlot. The audience was ready for Dvorák, and SSO’s cellist delivered 2014-03-28T16:07:36Z

Stravinsky quickly slips into his Neo-Classical style, actually more neo-Baroque here, to create a concerto grosso in which orchestral soloists regularly wrest the spotlight from the piano line. Music Review: New York Philharmonic in the Modern Beethoven Festival 2012-03-02T22:43:08Z

It makes clear that his work as an itinerant soloist and as a sideman wasn’t the result of his failure to develop his own group concept but the result of economics and of politics. How Eric Dolphy Deepened My Love of Jazz 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

The two soloists on Monday evening were Han Chen and Fei-Fei Dong. Music Review: Axiom, a Juilliard Ensemble, at Alice Tully Hall 2012-12-13T21:26:23Z

Ashley Knox in particular shimmers as Dewdrop, the dynamic soloist at the center of “Waltz of the Flowers,” radiating a queenly glow whenever she cuts through the air with her lightning-fast footwork. Review: Peel away some of the packaging, and Music Center's 'Nutcracker' reveals its gifts 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z

Their groups aren’t just collections of soloists; they create not just an original sound for themselves but an original quasi-orchestral sound. Larry Young’s Self-Questioning Jazz 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z

From the opening phrases to the transcendent finale, the British-born maestro spurred the orchestra, chorale, and three particularly fine soloists forward in a performance that never lost focus or momentum. ‘Gerontius,’ where have you been? Seattle Symphony brings seldom-heard piece to vibrant life 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

The company’s first production under his directorship is “Sleeping Beauty,” in which Stella Abrera, a Ballet Theater soloist, will appear as a guest artist. Adventure Beyond the South Pole 2011-08-21T04:00:04Z

The young musicians were joined in the Mass Cello Ensemble by several noted soloists, elders who, on the other hand, revealed vivid personalities. 109 cellos and one obsession in Walt Disney Concert Hall 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

Kent Tritle is the soloist in Saint-Saëns’s Symphony No. 3, the famed “Organ,” which is prefaced by Vaughan Williams’s “Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.” 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

It was also a fine crop of soloists. NSO ‘Messiah’ shows strengths of a tradition of change 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

That hundreds did so probably was less because of the music than because of the performers: the violinist Joshua Bell and the pianist Jeremy Denk, who were also the featured soloists in the orchestra’s program. Music Review: Joshua Bell With Jeremy Denk at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-20T22:18:00Z

I danced with maybe six girls, four girls, but of course I wanted to be soloist. Emotions Expressed With a Glance 2011-06-30T22:13:36Z

The real stars of this program, however, are the corps members and soloists who are often overshadowed by PNB’s dynamic principals. ‘Debonair’: Justin Peck’s ode to love premieres at PNB 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

This group, directed by the former American Ballet Theater soloist Sascha Radetsky, acts as a bridge between ballet training and a professional career. 5 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

Here, at last, the emphasis shifted from soloist to ensemble, the musicians listening keenly to one another in trying to find balances and voicings. Whitted's sextet blows hot and cold at Jazz Showcase 2011-01-07T14:13:00Z

They were equally impressive in Britten's concerto, sometimes the adversary to soloist Steven Osborne, sometimes his partner in crime. CBSO/Volkov – review 2013-02-07T15:24:27Z

The cello soloist was David Finckel, who recently left the Emerson String Quartet and — with his wife, the pianist Wu Han — established an annual chamber music program at the school this summer. Critic’s Notebook: Aspen Music Festival Embarks on New Era 2013-07-29T21:49:03Z

There was Rachmaninoff’s colorful Symphonic Dances; Bruch’s popular Violin Concerto No. 1, featuring the formidable German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter as soloist; and the final few scenes of Stravinsky’s “The Firebird.” At Carnegie Hall Opening, Delving Into Levity’s Layers 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

The rest of the program was devoted to selections with Fleming — an unusually generous number of songs with the soloist. Renée Fleming launches Seattle Symphony season in high style 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

For the Philharmonia Northwest performance, Seattle Symphony cellist Walter Gray will be the soloist. Philharmonia Northwest presents old and new music created entirely by Seattle composers 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

Still, despite a warm, even gentle demeanor, there was no doubt he was in charge, announcing the order of soloists at rehearsal, or small tweaks to the charts. Jazz at Lincoln Center Reopens, With Four Young Players in the Spotlight 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

He made all of us on stage – the soloist, each musician in the orchestra – the best version of ourselves that we could be. Sir Colin Davis remembered: 'He worked little miracles' 2013-04-15T18:13:39Z

But the jazz scene here tends to be about youth, bold soloists and small groups. The Week Ahead: Oct. 16 ? 22 2011-10-14T16:46:11Z

Upstairs in the soloist’s quarters, he worked on his touch, lingering on single notes, then gradually growing more intense. Daniil Trifonov, New to Rachmaninoff, but a Bold and Youthful Echo 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

The four soloists, separate from the choir, sang with clarity and earnestness; the violins of Concert Royal played with spirited attack. Music Review: ‘Messiah’ at St. Thomas and Alice Tully Hall 2012-12-17T05:15:05Z

Yet it operated on the concerto grosso principle whereby the pulse is relayed from one group of soloists to another like electrical charges round a nervous system. Northern Sinfonia/Zehetmair 2010-06-07T21:20:00Z

It was also the first work in which he experimented with changing the makeup and layout of the musicians, writing for a classical orchestral formation plus an ensemble of 12 soloists. Henri Dutilleux, Modernist Composer, Dies at 97 2013-05-23T04:14:08Z

In 1950, Mr. Olefsky was the soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Ormandy in the world premiere of Virgil Thomson’s Cello Concerto. Paul Olefsky, a Cellist and Educator, Dies at 87 2013-06-07T03:43:28Z

Shirley did manage to perform as a soloist with symphonies in Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland and elsewhere. Who Was Don Shirley? ‘Green Book’ Tries to Solve the Mystery 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

Both in N.W.A. and as a soloist, Ice Cube helped revolutionize rap with his cleareyed lyrics about police brutality, white supremacy and gang life. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

In the second movement, “Sarabande & Gigue,” the orchestra suddenly sympathizes with the soloists by supporting the piano parts. Review: Nico Muhly’s Moody Concerto for Two Pianos 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

Ott, the piano soloist, offered a lot of sleek polish as well. Journeyman conductor offers sleek and pleasant evening 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

Filmed live, with a musical soloist and an audience of none, the show was held in the Piccolo Teatro in Milan. Can Fashion Be a Form of Self-Care? 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

It ended with an unusual post-concert Schubert song recital in which the four vocal soloists and members of the Master Chorale performed with Schiff back at the piano. András Schiff and the L.A. Philharmonic join Haydn for a look at war 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z

This practice tends to happen mostly when a soloist performs with a chamber-size orchestra. The Week Ahead: Nov. 20 ? 26 2011-11-18T22:01:22Z

Her presence at the academy was also preceded by that of Joy Womack, a Texas native who joined the Bolshoi Ballet as a soloist, then left in November after accusing the company of demanding bribes. An Alaskan Ballet Dancer Hones Her Craft at the Bolshoi 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z

Marc Satterwhite, the award’s director, said in a statement that the work “is not a virtuoso showcase, but rather integrates the soloists smoothly into an ever-evolving orchestral texture.” Hear the Piece That Won One of Music’s Biggest Prizes 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

Where soloist and orchestra most aligned was in the Rondo finale; Levit stated the first theme briskly, precisely, and the Philharmonic responded in kind. Review: Igor Levit Arrives at the Philharmonic, at Last 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z

This was apparently designed to help Portman's Oscar chances by convincing voters the actor had learned to dance like a professional soloist in less than a year. Darren Aronofsky and Mila Kunis deny Black Swan cover-up claims 2011-03-29T09:57:49Z

The other soloist was a computer program — called Voyager — that can listen to live performances in real time and offer improvised responses. It’s Alive! It’s With the Band! A Computer Soloist Holds Its Own 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z

Or, rather, it’s about bassoons, as the work surrounds the soloist with prerecorded sounds of six other soloists, foreshadowing the live artist, challenging her, admiring her and interacting with her. Review: ICE Features Levy Lorenzo on Teacups and Rebekah Heller on Bassoon 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

The sense was reinforced by a set of soloists including the opalescently toned soprano Elizabeth Watts and lyrical bass Stephan Loges, whose strengths lie in the early music field. Northern Sinfonia/Zehetmair ? review 2012-05-21T17:00:01Z

Such a small scale may sound nothing like “El Niño,” a sweeping, nearly two-hour Nativity oratorio written for vocal soloists, a trio of countertenors, a full orchestra and choir, and a children’s chorus. John Adams and David Lang: Masters of the Modern Holiday Oratorio 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z

Here it presents a program juxtaposing Mozart’s own “Jupiter” Symphony and Horn Concerto No. 3, with Radovan Vlatkovic as soloist, with Beethoven’s Overture to “The Creatures of Prometheus.” Classical Music Listings for Nov. 25-Dec. 1 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

On Friday, the final three soloists were guests from the Royal Danish Ballet, present to demonstrate Limón’s international reach. Review: Limón Dance Company Celebrates Its Heritage 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

The same was true of another promotion — Roman Mejia to soloist. Rising Out of the Pandemic, City Ballet Ushers in a New Era 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

These sections are sung by tenor and baritone soloists, mostly accompanied by a chamber-size contingent of the orchestra. Music Review: London Symphony Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall - Review 2011-10-24T21:46:31Z

The pianism was ringing and crisp throughout, and Mr. Sacks chose his moments as a soloist. Jacob Sacks and Friends in Concert at Weill Recital Hall 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

In each case, the choreography eventually won; you could feel it happen with the high-kicking entry of four Melancholic female soloists in “Temperaments” and with Apollo’s pas de deux with Terpsichore. Dance Review: Boston Ballet Offers ?Ultimate Balanchine? 2010-05-10T22:08:00Z

Leader Catherine Martin, meanwhile, was the deft soloist in the darker, altogether more austere Concerto in A Minor. Early Opera Company – review 2012-12-20T18:26:27Z

The soloists at the Mexico City performance - a Canadian woman and a half-French, half-Tunisian man - are typical of the far-flung makeup of the 13-member troupe, whose dancers also hail from the U.S., Dance troupe spotlights Mexico's native son, Limon 2010-11-18T22:01:00Z

Makarova choreographed the role of confident, technically steely Gamzatti for Cynthia Harvey, at the time a young soloist who was new to leading roles. How Natalia Makarova changed the ballet world with this landmark production 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

In this 75-minute concert with no intermission, though, it was unusual to feature each of the ensemble’s eight violinists as soloist in one of the works. Review | Everyone’s a soloist in Eclipse Chamber concert 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

Along with the twigs, the soloists strike tuned wine bottles, a steel drum, a trap set, xylophones and other conventional and found instruments. Twigs break, cans bang and L.A. Philharmonic soars with Mahler 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

A: Many are done with a professional orchestra and professional soloists, and with the choruses sung by volunteer singers who are the "audience." It's 'Messiah' season in Seattle 2010-12-01T23:52:00Z

They expand an instrument’s repertory or a soloist’s arsenal. Rearranging Ideas About Alternate Arrangements 2010-06-11T14:18:00Z

One synthesizer mimicked, distorted and chased instrumental lines played by flute, clarinet and violin soloists; another provided digital samples; and a mixing board in the audience swirled sounds around the hall through loudspeakers. Music Review: International Contempory Ensemble at Rose Theater 2012-08-06T22:19:56Z

But Ms. Lane, a soloist in a ballerina role, met the ballet’s lofty challenges with sufficiency of skill rather than a glamorous surfeit. Review: American Ballet Theater Recalls the Wide Range of Its Early Years 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

Handel’s emotionally direct, English-language work about Christ’s birth, ministry, death and resurrection will be performed Friday-Sunday by Seattle Symphony, Seattle Symphony Chorale and four renowned soloists — as it is every year, writes Tom Keogh. Weekend preview: 5 ways to escape Christmas craziness 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

Equally commanding, Midori was the soloist in the Walton, a natural partner for Nelsons in her concern for flow and her eschewal of technical for emotional virtuosity. Prom 21: CBSO/Nelsons ? review 2011-07-31T17:07:00Z

Yet it has many striking moments that Garry Clarke, five vocal soloists and the instrumental group of 20 nimbly and colorfully set before us. Baroque Band ends season with a special performance of Handel 2011-06-03T17:05:20Z

Stephen Hough was the soloist in the Brahms – forthright, passionate and technically flawless. BBCSO/Davis – review 2013-04-15T17:13:40Z

In “The Trumpet Shall Sound,” Mr. Thiessen said, the more transparent sound of a Baroque instrument allows the musician to move “more easily from being a soloist to an ensemble player as the situation changes.” In Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ the Trumpet as Divine Agent 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

It enlists the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the Collegiate Chorale and soloists drawn from, as Mr. Idle said, “the finest talents apparently unemployed on Broadway.” ‘Not the Messiah (He’s a Very Naughty Boy),’ by Eric Idle 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

Ausklang examines the relationship between soloist and orchestra in a concerto. Lachenmann weekend - review 2010-10-25T21:29:00Z

A few days later, there was some real magic: The soloist Catherine Hurlin made her debut as Odette-Odile on Wednesday afternoon, and her “Swan Lake” was not like any other. At Ballet Theater, Visions of the Natural World and ‘Swan’ Debuts 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z

In that finale, the chorus, after sitting for nearly an hour, stands to join two soloists and — using lyrics adapted from poems — begins in almost a whisper: "Arise, yes, you will arise." Hearts and Renewal: Classical Concert Picks for 9/11 2011-09-09T21:00:00Z

On Davis’s “Kind of Blue,” jazz’s most famous modal album, Coltrane and the other soloists glide above the rhythm section, chasing melodies into air. In 1960, John Coltrane went on one last tour with Miles Davis. European audiences weren’t prepared for what he would play.

Our ensemble travels around the world and performs with the best conductors and soloists. Feel the Music project teaches deaf children a touch of Beethoven 2012-11-19T17:49:13Z

The choir of this church, which presented one of the first American “Messiah” performances in 1770, teams up with the Trinity Baroque Orchestra and soloists for its annual, reliably masterful concert of Handel’s oratorio. A New Yorker’s Guide to the Silvery Sounds of the Season 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

All three of the evening's French soloists were remarkable dramatists like Haïm, interacting with everyone onstage. Early music is still being reinvented 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

For ballet dancers, the rank of soloist can be frustrating: In recent years, Ms. Teuscher’s biggest fear was that she would grow stagnant as she had seen others do. Devon Teuscher, a Poet in Ballet Shoes, Takes On ‘Swan Lake’ 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

“You have to come out of this big massive sound of tutti violins, and then all of a sudden you are a soloist,” Mr. Dicterow said. Philharmonic to Perform Beethoven?s ?Missa Solemnis? 2010-06-18T14:41:00Z

These are long, meditative and largely plotless works that test the endurance and excellence of soloists and chorus singers, as well as the conductor and orchestra. Body Wax and Karate Chops: How to Stage a Philip Glass Opera 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

The show wound up on a jaggedly rejigged account of Corea's famous theme Spain, and the soloists swapped improv phrases with unselfconscious relish. Chick Corea/The Vigil – review 2013-03-06T18:07:54Z

The cello soloist — here the eloquent, calmly commanding Gautier Capuçon — begins alone, notes subtly bending to evoke the twang of a qin. Review: A Chinese Concerto and a Romantic Classic Gaze Back 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

A soloist at New York City Ballet, Ms. Lovette, 22, may be small — she is 5 foot 4 and calls herself “shrimpy” — but her presence is big. | Lauren Lovette: Lauren Lovette Dances in New York City Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ 2013-12-20T20:36:09Z

He was a strong, clear soloist who phrased as a singer does, with an organized narrative sense. Chocolate Armenteros, Trumpeter in Afro-Cuban Tradition, Dies at 87 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

There's nothing even remotely like it, especially being a soloist. Grateful Dead songwriter hits the road for rare tour 2013-09-16T10:05:02Z

Then the soloists play fleeting bits of the jumpy theme from the last movement of the Bach, which segue into spiraling riffs, establishing the quizzical mood of the music. Review: With Bach as a Catalyst, Thierry Escaich’s Lavish Concerto 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

As a dynamic soloist and ensemble musician, he performed extensively in chamber music series and festivals throughout the world. James Tyler obituary 2010-12-02T18:25:00Z

He requested the hymn “Last Full Measure of Devotion” sung by “a good male soloist,” and a plain stone at Arlington, with his Navy number on it and the words: “He loved Barbara very much.” Perspective | How George H.W. Bush used handwritten thank-you notes to build bridges 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z

Many such works involve the soloist rushing around with a crazed air, hitting just about any object that comes to hand. LA Philharmonic New Music Group/Dudamel/Adams – review 2013-03-15T17:33:23Z

The soloist sang an imperfect but emotional rendition of “Amazing Grace” and the audience raised their hands in praise. Perspective | George Floyd was an ordinary man. His memorial was a reminder of that simple, powerful fact. 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

In Act I, coordination between the instrumentalists and singers was frequently off, especially because the soloists, the diminutive chorus and the orchestra performed in constant interchanges, and entrances weren’t always synchronized. D.C. theater’s ‘La Sonnambula’ finds its footing after an unsteady awakening 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

Ashly Isaacs, who had been in the company’s corps de ballet, was promoted to soloist. New York City Ballet Announces Promotions in Dancer Ranks 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z

His soloist technique is stellar but involves a tricky mixture of facility and tension; his stage persona lacks any element of repose. Critic?s Notebook: Ratmansky?s ?Nutcracker? Occurs in a Child?s World 2012-01-01T23:17:55Z

His choir, from which the soloists are taken, remains matchless. Classical Playlist: Steve Reich, Mendelssohn, Bach and More 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Any dance with so many soloists lasting less than half an hour is more than welcome; the company is heading for a period when it has more talent than it can comfortably present. New York City Ballet’s Fall Season Bursts With Talent 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. Palmieri’s 12-piece group is at its core a dance band, but it’s also an improviser’s paradise — expert at cutting open swaths of terrain in support of brilliant, idiosyncratic soloists, like the bandleader himself. The Playlist: Zayn’s Bizarrely Great Sleaze Rock and 13 More New Songs 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

Müller-Schott is a strong soloist who plays with a dark, warm, slightly throaty tone. NSO anticipates upcoming tour with Central European program 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

Prized for their power and sonority, Salvi harps are played today by many of the finest soloists and orchestral musicians in the world. Victor Salvi, Who Played Harps and Made Them Too, Dies at 95 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

Hodges has since performed as a soloist with orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra — usually in contemporary repertoire and often with pieces written for him. A Pianist Adapts to Life With Parkinson’s Disease 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z

And last Thursday, the first presentation of “The Seasons” foundered when two of the three vocal soloists fell ill just hours beforehand. At 100, the Cleveland Orchestra May (Quietly) Be America’s Best 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z

She’ll be featured in this weekend’s Gallery Concerts program as a soloist and also in ensembles. Gallery Concerts’ ‘Strike the Viol’ presents two concerts of English music from the 1580s to the 1680s 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

Longtime soloist Bobby Briscoe flies in from Germany, and others have come from Virginia, Ohio and Northern California. Czech-U.S. Internet connection: Zbynek Mateju-Raiford Rogers' 'Still Life' 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z

Benjamin Verdery, the director of the 92nd Street Y’s Art of the Guitar series, rounded up five soloists and two ensembles for an overview of Mr. Brouwer’s guitar music on Saturday evening. Music Review: All Guitar, and a Little Comic Relief in Unexpected Places 2011-04-24T21:48:59Z

Saturday’s soloist, James Ehnes, is my kind of musician — fastidious, conscientious and unconcerned with showmanship. BSO at Strathmore: A well-balanced ensemble that hits right at the surface

“My dream was to be a soloist. I didn’t expect to go past soloist.” A Pioneering Black Ballerina’s Life Story Comes to the Stage 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

The soloist’s rapport with Morlot was evident throughout the performance, and the Symphony musicians — especially the principal winds — outdid themselves with beautiful solo responses to the soloist in the second Adagio assai movement. French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet demonstrates his mastery of Ravel 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z

Videos submitted by instrumental soloists will be up for anyone to watch. AP: Pa. symphony seeks soloist via YouTube contest 2012-02-09T17:55:10Z

When the company decided to hold galas, it split 16 soloists into pairs so they could dance together. Russian Ballet Returned to the Stage. Then a Covid Outbreak Hit. 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

Stephen Taylor’s humane oboe took on the character of a vocal soloist, and Mélisande Corriveau’s viola da gamba had crisp, authoritative articulation befitting her prominent placement at center stage. Review: A ‘St. Matthew Passion’ Balances Grandeur and Calm 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

The film, shot in November, was a small side project, a trailer for “The Most Incredible Thing,” Mr. Peck’s new work for New York City Ballet, where he is resident choreographer and a soloist. Justin Peck Calmly Creates a Kingdom at City Ballet 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

Combining soloists and chorus with the power of the pipe organ, not to mention a full symphony, may well be the best possible audio representation of the glories of heaven. ‘Gerontius,’ where have you been? Seattle Symphony brings seldom-heard piece to vibrant life 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

But for whatever reason — perhaps a fondness for the spotlight or pressure from promoters hoping to sell tickets with starry names — soloists often wait too long before taking their final bow. Music Review: Those Spirited Strings and Other Things 2011-05-12T21:15:48Z

Shortly after Filin's appointment, two soloists left the theater in protest. Bolshoi ballet chief has surgery after acid attack 2013-01-18T21:46:05Z

Echoing Britten's originally intended English, German and Russian soloists, it featured a Latvian soprano, an English tenor and a Norwegian baritone. War Requiem 2010-05-02T20:45:00Z

This week, principals and soloists of the Royal Danish Ballet perform six of those dance sequences at the Joyce Theater. Royal Danish Ballet Performs Works by August Bournonville 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Even so, Orlinski’s early attempts as a soloist faltered, hampered by a lack of confidence. He Break Dances. He Pole Dances. He Sings Like an Angel. 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

Unlike a subsidised company that would have the orchestra and soloists on contract, if this goes anywhere the cost has to be found. Turning Under Milk Wood into an opera 2014-04-04T07:15:10Z

Singers from the Royal College of Music and soloists joined the early music ensemble Florilegium, directed by Ashley Solomon, in this bold endeavour which was magical yet baffling. Dido and Aeneas; English Music festival – review 2013-06-01T23:07:11Z

Following his death, she found consolation at the London Spiritual Mission in Notting Hill Gate, where she became a regular member and soloist. Ava June obituary 2013-03-05T18:07:58Z

It takes a long time for the soloist to enter in Dvorak’s Cello Concerto: three and a half minutes of orchestral music with the force and sweep of a symphony. Review: The Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason Makes an Entrance 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

In her essay in the catalog, Ms. Harrison wrote that they interacted “much as jazz soloists take cues and improvise.” | Long Island: ‘Larry Rivers: Collaborations and Appropriations’ Is at Stony Brook University 2012-10-27T04:59:07Z

The program opened with Mozart’s Concerto No. 23 in A; Angelika Fuchs, a Ukrainian pianist who is a student of Solomon Mikowsky’s, was the soloist. Philippe Entremont Conducts; Simone Dinnerstein Performs; Music by Ezequiel Vi?ao 2012-02-03T23:02:08Z

The young soloists, all – with the exception of soprano Hannah Morrison – drawn from the choir, were uniformly excellent. 5 stars for 9-hour Bach Marathon 2013-04-02T10:24:08Z

Instead, we are deafened by a cacophony of memoirs and first-person narratives — “a choir made up of soloists.” One of India’s Most Original and Controversial Novelists Returns With a Powerful Parable 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

After an ankle injury at 24 ended her dream of rising from the ballet corps to soloist, she rebounded by studying arts management. Rachel Moore of ABT named L.A. Music Center's next president and CEO

Most of the cello’s range, however, is smack in the middle of the orchestra as a whole, and it’s terribly easy for a composer to overscore the music and swamp the soloist. Waiting for a Masterpiece from Esa-Pekka Salonen 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

Smith is already a leading jazz soloist, but he's also evolving into an original orchestrator and arranger of classic orchestral jazz. This week's new live music 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z

At the time, Tippett was preoccupied with reviving early English music from Purcell's time and earlier, but was hampered by the lack of a convincing male soloist for the the 17th-century composer's alto parts. Alfred Deller: a voice from the past 2012-05-31T09:52:25Z

The music-making became more engaged, and engaging, with the arrival of Melvyn Tan as soloist in Mendelssohn's G minor Piano Concerto, played on a modern Steinway. ASMF/Marriner – review 2012-12-20T15:54:59Z

Originally a ballet dancer, he performed with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet in the late 1940s before making his debut as an ethnic-dance soloist in 1953. Matteo, Master of Spanish Dance, Dies at 92 2011-03-29T00:56:33Z

Although the focus is often on a male soloist, it sometimes shifts to a different dancer, creating a marvelous ambiguity of identity that is one of the work’s most haunting accomplishments. Review: Ballet Arizona Performs ‘Round’ in a Dreamy Desert Ambience 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Helen Lin, the soloist, dexterously grappled with contrasting meters and hand-over-hand legerdemain, chorused by strings and two percussionists. Music Review | North/South Chamber Orchestra: New Works by Max Lifchitz and Others at Merkin Concert Hall 2010-03-09T22:31:00Z

Anderson was a celebrated contralto and Philadelphia native who in 1955 became the first black soloist at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Bon Jovi to be honored for humanitarian work 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

He was the first real, acoustic concerto soloist in the new space, and he was a gallant partner; the piano, properly, sounded somewhere both inside and in front of the orchestra. The Philharmonic Tests Its New Home With the Classics 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

He's also a virtuoso soloist who has also led a big band for nearly three decades. London jazz festival 2012: from Herbie Hancock and Esperanza Spalding to John Paul Jones – what to see 2012-11-07T12:56:00Z

The very capable hands of Ensemble LPR, a group of inventive musicians devoted to bridging all forms of music, give David Bowie’s swan song the orchestral treatment with Maya Beiser as the soloist. 15 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

The Sibelius concerto has such a strong sense of motion with the ostinato, that repeated motif in the orchestra — almost like telephone poles against which you can measure the speed of the soloist. How Classical Music Can Help You Hear the Open Road 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z

Her professional career launched in 2002, when she performed as the female soloist in a Three Tenors concert in Yokohama. `An opera singer discovers her ‘subtle voice’ 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

He relied on Mendelssohn's two most beloved pieces: the Violin Concerto, with Gil Shaham as the winning soloist, and the incidental music to "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Dudamel adds his dramatic touch to a night of Mendelssohn at Hollywood Bowl 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

For Georgina Pazcoguin, the New York City Ballet soloist who plays Victoria in the current Broadway revival of that Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, the role fulfills a childhood dream. Georgina Pazcoguin on Her First Broadway Opening Night, in ‘Cats’ 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

The taxingly hearty “Stairway to Paradise” solo and “Who Cares?” duet were breezily danced by the soloist Savannah Lowery, whose forthright style and sunny manner find no better vehicles. City Ballet Presents a Lyrical Program in Saratoga 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

Biss is a soloist who phrases like a musical insider, looking for hidden meaning of a gesture, and Kahane gave him an operatic frame in which the pianist could do his exploration. L.A. Chamber Orchestra ending season on a sunny note 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

It has promoted young soloists and arts administrators, and operates an ever-expanding annual conference. They Were Ahead of the Curve on Diversity in Classical Music 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

Saturday; live nativity performance outdoors, 5:30, 6:30 and 8:15 p.m., in Spanish, 6 p.m.; concert with choirs and soloists, 7 p.m. Community calendar 2011-12-08T00:22:09Z

Their connection is palpably strong but under threat, and the interplay of unison and do-your-own-thing — the call-and-response between soloist and group — keeps up an underlying tension parallel to the music’s. Review: A Dance About Gun Violence? ‘Ode’ Is Daring and Delicate 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

The set suggested a return to the guitarist’s earliest days -- at age 15, he was already developing a reputation as a stellar blues soloist while playing in his father’s Los Angeles-based big band. Concert review: Shuggie Otis at Lincoln Hall 2013-04-18T06:16:00Z

The leading female dancers, as well as female soloists and dancers making their debut in the roles, are presented with bouquets as the audience cheers. When presenting a bouquet to a ballerina, don’t trip! 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

The rest of the orchestra simmers and seethes, with individual instruments following the soloists on what Ms. Gubaidulina calls their “quests” up and down the viola’s range. Music Review: Orchestral Recitations Of 2 Symphonic Poems 2011-04-14T22:04:47Z

Steven Beck, an excellent pianist and champion of contemporary music, was the committed soloist, deftly revealing the elegiac and frenetic moods of this rhythmically and harmonically complex work. Music Review: Charles Wuorinen?s Works at the Guggenheim Museum 2012-02-21T22:57:52Z

I mean it as a compliment that, listening to Mr. Goode, you forgot that this work, like all the Mozart concertos, was intended partly as a show-off piece for the soloist. Music Review: David Zinman Leads Philharmonic in Mendelssohn and Mozart 2013-12-06T22:21:02Z

But for much of her recital on Saturday night at Carnegie Hall, where there were many empty seats, there was a chasm between soloist and audience. Music Review: Karita Mattila at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-12-11T22:22:47Z

James Bagwell conducted the excellent Collegiate Chorale and the American Symphony Orchestra in a stirring performance of the work on Friday evening at Carnegie Hall, with the stellar soprano Nicole Cabell as a soloist. Music Review: Collegiate Chorale Sings Tippett and Bruckner at Carnegie 2012-02-05T22:40:45Z

Ripples spread from body to body, and the opening "Shiva dance" kept returning in different permutations for both soloists and ensemble. Review: Mark Morris Dance Group and SSO in a rite of spring 2010-05-22T18:08:00Z

An excited audience called the soloists back again and again after the final triumphant chord. Review: Guest conductor Sinaisky puts sizzle in Symphony's night 2010-03-19T19:02:00Z

A year later she made her debut as a soloist, with the Tulsa Symphony. Fredell Lack, Admired Violinist and Teacher, Dies at 95 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z

If, back then, the group’s members were pioneers in respect to race and repertoire, it is hardly novel today to see Asian soloists and ensemble players performing Bach, Mozart and Beethoven in concert halls. Tokyo String Quartet to make last Seattle visit 2013-04-12T19:35:10Z

The latest installment in the Seattle Symphony season must break some kind of record for the amount of contrast in two pieces by a guest soloist. Review: Trilling birds and a sedate waltz, expertly delivered by Serkin at the SSO 2011-02-11T23:25:06Z

But unlike Tinariwen and the other Tuareg bands from across the border in Mali, he's a soloist, and a personality. Bombino – review 2013-04-26T16:43:18Z

The concert also offers William Bolcom’s Trombone Concerto, a lively, inventive piece that Mr. Gilbert and the orchestra introduced in June; it’s written for Joseph Alessi, the orchestra’s principal trombone, who is again the soloist. A New Work From Wynton Marsalis at David Geffen Hall 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

"When I was a student," one Royal Ballet soloist remembers, "the highest praise was to be told that you were a 'good girl'." Sexism in dance: where are all the female choreographers? 2013-04-28T08:00:33Z

New York hosts several first-rate Indian companies or dance soloists each year. Critic?s Notebook: Nrityagram Dance and Other Indian Troupes in New York 2012-03-25T23:19:52Z

That rare occurrence at the Philharmonic, this week: an unexpected program, with a major soloist, led by a heavyweight guest conductor. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

Hart would later release several more EPs, both as a soloist and the leader of the band Nova Mob. 4 Songs to Play Loudly in Memory of Hüsker Dü's Grant Hart 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

The latter two feature a perennial Seattle favorite, pianist Marc-André Hamelin, first as a soloist and then as part of a four-piano ensemble for a wedding ballet. Stravinsky’s ‘Persephone’ at Seattle Symphony goes big with puppets, dancers, singers and full orchestra 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

Will putting an international Scottish soloist with a national voice in this leadership position help attract private donors? A Violinist Prepares Her Next Star Turn: Festival Leader 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

To select music, interesting programs, soloists — all of that. Search for Gerard Schwarz's successor at SSO is a broad-ranging and discreet one 2010-05-21T22:07:00Z

The chorus, with its annual crop of new faces, sounded as good as it ever has in my memory, though the soloists were uneven. Cobbling Together a Christmas Music Marathon 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

As a soloist, Mr. Stetson creates illusions of multitude with his exacting control of circular breathing, multiphonics and singing through his horns while playing. Music Review: Colin Stetson and Brooklyn Youth Chorus at Merkin Hall 2014-03-24T22:28:40Z

A few weeks later, he achieved the same milestone with the Philadelphia Orchestra as the soloist in Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto. A Composer’s Final Work Contains ‘Visions’ of an American Master 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

The text draws largely on the actual words of historical figures, who are represented by vocal soloists. A Festival Built for Risky Business 2011-05-06T05:00:07Z

On Friday evening the orchestra and choir, with Mr. Koopman and the same soloists, took the stage at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark for Bach’s Mass in B minor. Music Review: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra at Alice Tully and in Newark 2012-03-18T20:18:26Z

Mr. Clapton’s own set mostly puttered along until Mr. Beck and then Mr. Winwood, one of the day’s most cogent soloists, forced him to push himself. Music Review: Eric Clapton?s Crossroads Guitar Festival in Chicago 2010-06-27T22:39:00Z

The audience that evening was treated to 27 world premieres, all written by the soloist. Finding the sweet spot: writing for amateur pianists 2012-06-08T14:29:09Z

She was a soloist with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, but after moving to City Ballet she filled mostly character roles, Dr. Kupersmith said. Marian Horosko, Dancer and Advocate for the Art, Dies at 92 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

The choral singing was momentous, the soloists exemplary and the orchestral sound strikingly clear – entirely appropriate to a work that envisions mystic experience in terms of crystalline sonorities rather than haze or vagueness. Hall?/BBCPO/Elder 2010-05-05T22:00:00Z

Some imprecision in the coordination among the soloists, the Tanglewood Festival chorus and orchestra in the “Agnus Dei” made that oasis of peace less persuasive. Music Review: Tanglewood Welcomes Late Substitutes for Verdi’s Requiem 2013-07-28T19:39:40Z

It's similar to past bands with lots of great soloists who play with a lot of spirit and a lot of heart. Seattle area again well represented in Essentially Ellington jazz contest 2010-05-07T05:14:00Z

Bach’s Cantata 79 and selections from Cantatas 100 and 52; with orchestra and soloists; William Peek, director. A Week’s Vigil, Then Easter Hallelujahs 2014-04-10T21:53:05Z

The soloist was Emanuel Ax, who is certainly celebrated enough and brilliant enough to deserve a front seat, and he played with consummate skill. Herbert Blomstedt illuminates Beethoven, joyously, with the NSO 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

And he had Joby Burgess, the soloist, coax all manner of sounds from the oxlike instrument, often wielding multiple sticks in each hand and even using his fingers and elbows. Music Review: Prokofiev Version of ?Eugene Onegin? at Princeton 2012-02-12T23:34:22Z

In the egalitarian treatment of his eccentric combination of soloists for the Second “Brandenburg,” Bach abandoned altogether the hierarchies of his “various instruments.” There’s More Religion Than You Think in Bach’s ‘Brandenburgs’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

I lost track of the number of times Mr. Boulez and Deborah Polaski, the compelling soprano soloist in the Schoenberg, were brought back to the stage during the long final ovation. Music Review: Pierre Boulez Conducts Met Orchestra at Carnegie 2010-05-17T22:00:00Z

Bernard Haitink, center, conducted the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, who performed Monday in Lucerne with the Arnold Schoenberg Choir and the soloists Sally Matthews, left, and Christian Gerhaher, right. ArtsBeat: Lucerne, a Wagner City, Engages in Yearlong Affair With Brahms 2011-04-13T15:18:04Z

The third installment of the festival includes 10 programs - most of them double or triple bills, with collaborations between the ensembles and soloists - and runs from Jan. 25 through March 21. ArtsBeat: Ecstatic Music Festival Unveils Genre-Crossing Line-Up 2012-11-29T16:45:33Z

Like, improvising as a full band, rather than as four individual soloists. Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z

“We’re in a cadenza fermata,” he said, referring to the moment in a classical concerto when the orchestra drops away and the soloist takes off on a flight of fancy. Concerts Disappeared. Piano Sales Survived. 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z

He first showed promise as a schoolboy soloist in the church choir and then as a harmonizer in barbershop quartets. If you could read Gordon Lightfoot’s mind, this is the tale his thoughts could tell 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

Oregon Symphony music director Carlos Kalmar will marshal, for five performances, the many talents and forces — including the Seattle Symphony Chorale and guest soloists — involved in performing Beethoven’s exhilarating last completed symphony. Seattle Symphony’s year-end plans: traditional and the new 2013-12-27T01:00:06Z

On the program: the overture to “The Impresario,” the graceful oboe concerto with the soloist Liang Wang and the vivacious “Symphony No. 39.” Opera & Classical Music Listings for Dec. 19-25 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

Indeed, there was one: Second soloist Sofia Ivanova-Skoblikova, who made a joyful, leaping game of the second variation in an otherwise uneventful dream sequence. Mariinsky Ballet’s ‘Raymonda’ comes slowly to life 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

As a soloist and a chamber musician, Mr. Black championed contemporary music and commissioned work from dozens of composers. Robert Black, Bass Virtuoso of the Avant-Garde, Is Dead at 67 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z

In the seldom-heard “Oceanides,” Morlot and his players colorfully evoked the legendary sea creatures of the title, with the wind soloists as the seabirds and the low strings providing the rolling waves. Seattle Symphony vividly evokes the sea in works by Sibelius, Britten 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

In addition, Carter Brey, the orchestra’s eminent principal cellist, is the soloist in Schumann’s infrequently heard Cello Concerto. Classical Music Listings for April 29-May 5 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

This soloist got a chance to display the full range of his technique during a sudden storm scene, driven by slashing clarinet runs. Review: 56 Years Presenting the Best of Young Artists 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Guest conductor Carlos Izcaray leads the orchestra in a free community concert, with guest soloists from the Colburn School. The week ahead in L.A. classical music, Sept. 17-24: Joshua Bell, Los Angeles Master Chorale and more 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

For the soloists, therefore, we can be grateful. Lucrezia Borgia; CBSO/Nelsons; Ibragimova/Gerhardt/Osborne ? review 2011-02-06T00:06:35Z

Beneath them, a piano soloist rocked and the orchestra crashed like breaking waves. The Direct Current festival is about new things. But sometimes it forgets to tell the audience. 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

Yet some of the soloists were still more impressive this time around. Smaller venue means more splendor in St. John Passion 2014-03-02T17:52:41Z

Most of the female soloists, in contrast, were a disappointment, their style dated and their presentation choppy. St. Petersburg's Mikhailovsky Ballet revises the pirate-tale classic 'Le Corsaire' 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

The evening's curiosity was "The Songs of Songs," for three vocal soloists, women's chorus and ensemble, the one piece that Conlon ended up conducting. 'The Poet in Exile' at the Wallis lacks full picture of Walter Arlen 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Lin was the soloist in a pensive account of Dvorak’s Romance for Violin and Orchestra in F minor. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Celebrates Lunar New Year 2014-02-02T22:29:54Z

Justin Peck, a soloist with City Ballet as well as its resident choreographer, came to Paris a month earlier than his colleagues to work with the Paris Opera Ballet. New York City Ballet Savors the City of Light 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

Bates was the most prominent soloist, drumming on his beatpad with a commitment the orchestra couldn’t quite match. How National Symphony targets young audiences: With driving electronica 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z

But now he is stepping into the spotlight as a soloist with a debut recording, a program that showcases the flute in all its wit, warmth and brilliance. A Flutist Steps Into the Solo Spotlight 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

Simon Keenlyside was the baritone soloist, also in superb voice, and the National Youth Choir of Scotland was outstanding. SCO/Ticciati ? review 2011-08-23T18:20:01Z

This program took place the night before she was to be the soloist at Avery Fisher Hall in a work by Frank Martin for the final Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra program this summer. Patricia Kopatchinskaja in A Little Night Music 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

But there was an interplay of musical minds this time, and Nelsons's rapport with the orchestra, not just with his soloist, was self-evident. LSO/Nelsons 2010-10-03T21:15:00Z

Carlos Chamorro, sometimes a partner to Collado and sometimes a soloist, brought an appealing modern sensibility to a traditional art form. Flamenco dancer Marina Collado shows her vulnerable side in works at Gala Hispanic

The Adams, which was receiving its world première, I heard in an open rehearsal—less than ideal conditions, with Alan Gilbert interrupting frequently to confer with the composer, the musicians, and the soloist, Leila Josefowicz. Listen to the Future 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z

This time the soloist was Beatrice Rana, a 24-year-old Italian pianist who asks for no license whatsoever. A little Russian diplomacy saves the day at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

The soloist was Beatrice Rana, a young Italian pianist who won the silver medal, and was the audience favorite, at the 2013 Van Cliburn Competition. Pinnock, Rana fill in admirably with L.A. Philharmonic 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z

For this performance the society was joined by children’s choristers from the cathedral, along with three fine vocal soloists. Music Review: Oratorio Society of New York at Carnegie Hall 2013-04-23T20:56:32Z

The orchestra, as if wary of the soloist, responds with tremulous, swelling sonorities. Review: Susanna Malkki Returns to the New York Philharmonic 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

The soloists evoke characters: Ms. Wu’s pipa on a merry walk, matched by Mr. Ma’s bouncing, buoyant down-bow strokes. Review: Yo-Yo Ma and Wu Man Play With Cinematic Sweep 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

Britten's elegant score, written for chamber orchestra and six soloists, uses 12-tone serialism interspersed with traditional melodic forms that keeps the listener off-balance and instills a growing sense of unease. Britten ghost story at City Opera 2013-02-25T15:53:18Z

The evening’s soloist, Swiss pianist Oliver Schnyder, took a risk that paid off handsomely. Conductor Mario Venzago energizes Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z

He even proved deft at accommodating soloist superstars. Recalling Pierre Boulez, a Conductor-Composer With an Ear to the Alternative 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

Based on a Goethe poem, the work starts bleakly, the soloist singing of rueful isolation over morose low strings. Music Review: Brahms for the Schumanns 2010-10-14T20:55:00Z

“It has made me feel free,” Katherine Williams, another Ballet Theater soloist said, about attending men’s class, “less confined to a certain look I need to maintain as a woman onstage.” The Place to Challenge Ballet’s Gender Stereotypes? In Daily Class 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

And so the orchestra works on the text even before the soloist puts the words in place. Critic?s Notebook: More Drama for an Opera, Not All of It From the Singers 2011-04-14T22:02:56Z

Ms. Frank was a well-loved soloist when her career was derailed by a hand injury about a decade ago. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2012-10-09T22:16:43Z

But despite how important her career has been on- and offstage, Reichlen almost left the company during her time as a soloist. A City Ballet Star Bids Farewell to the ‘Crazy Ballerina Life’ 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

It regularly hosts major soloists including the Chinese pianist Yuja Wang, who plays Bartók in Taipei with the ensemble later in the season as she will with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Taiwan Philharmonic comes to America 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

Five years later she was promoted from the corps de ballet to the rank of soloist. Stella Abrera of American Ballet Theater to Retire in Spring 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

The slyly imperious, high-kicking soloist of “Rubies”: has this role ever been more impressive? Critic?s Notebook: From a Season Aloft, High Hopes Linger 2011-06-14T22:48:59Z

The rest of the program, which will include Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Emanuel Ax as soloist, will remain the same. Snow Leads Met Opera to Cancel a Premiere; All Broadway Shows Canceled 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

In “They Rose at Dawn,” she shares those gifts as a soloist, though she’s not alone. Review: Aparna Ramaswamy, Solo and Symbiotic at the Joyce 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

Finding an ideally balanced quartet of soloists, however, is apparently tricky these days. Philharmonia/Gatti – review 2013-04-21T15:09:37Z

Of the soloists, Sara Jean Ford brought a thin, pinched tone to the soprano arias, but Ryan MacPherson, the tenor, illuminated his solo contributions with a rich, warm tone and thoughtful phrasing. Music Review: Distinguished Concerts International New York in ?Messiah? 2011-11-28T23:12:37Z

His fellow Dane Inger Dam-Jensen, a soprano who won the Cardiff Singer of the World competition in 1993, was the soloist in two sequences of songs. BBCNOW/Søndergård – review 2012-10-14T14:56:03Z

It was less than a year ago that Jeffrey Cirio joined American Ballet Theater as a soloist. A Fast Leap by Jeffrey Cirio to Principal at American Ballet Theater 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

The empty stylistic veneer extended to most of the soloists as well. Mariinsky Ballet's 'Raymonda' at Segerstrom: Why love story could use a little heart 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

Alsop appeared almost deferential to her soloist, yet also inhabited an altogether different sound world, perhaps a consequence of the late switch. A reshuffled Baltimore Symphony Orchestra can’t quite fill the void after headliner’s exit

The board chairwoman and Chen described Freeman as a visionary who inspired countless musicians, soloists, composers, patrons and audience members of color to become involved in classical music. A baton is passed and a legacy is celebrated 2011-05-24T16:49:15Z

A series of soloists arrived onstage with excerpts from the same mesmerizing material, mapping past onto present. Review: Reviving Andy de Groat’s Works in New York 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z

The mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, a specialist in French repertory, was a splendid soloist, her tone warm and luxuriant, her diction immaculate. Music Review: Philharmonic?s French Flavors With Tangy Seasoning 2010-06-04T22:36:00Z

In advance of the Bard Music Festival, titled “Chopin and His World,” the college hosts a performance by Moves, a group of New York City Ballet principals, soloists and corps de ballet members. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

A soloist normally performs the national anthem for the annual “Capitol Fourth” celebration but this year Williams will lead the National Symphony Orchestra, the U.S. Americans mark July 4 with fireworks, food 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

The band is currently working on new music — as a group and soloists. BTS on 1st Grammy nod: ‘It’s hard to express in words’ 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

After becoming a full-time concert soloist and teacher, he performed with leading orchestras around the world and made more than 165 recordings. Cellist Janos Starker dies at 88 2013-04-29T16:15:58Z

Early in his career he won a Grammy for  classical soloist with an orchestra. The challenge Nicola Benedetti threw down to get Wynton Marsalis to write a 'wild' violin concerto 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

Ms. Urioste and Ms. White were soloists last year and played magnificently. The Week Ahead: Oct. 3 ? 9 2010-10-01T14:39:00Z

He was extensively featured as both a soloist and the straight man for Gillespie’s between-songs banter, sharpening his musical and comedic skills at the same time. James Moody, Jazz Saxophonist, Dies at 85 2010-12-10T19:00:00Z

Xander Parish, a British dancer who is a principal soloist with the Mariinsky, confirmed in a telephone interview that there had been an outbreak. Russian Ballet Returned to the Stage. Then a Covid Outbreak Hit. 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

And “A Ballerina’s Tale,” from Nelson George, takes a look at the process of the dancer Misty Copeland, the first African-American female soloist at American Ballet Theater in two decades. Patricia Arquette and Mary J. Blige Starring in Films Added to Tribeca Festival Lineup 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

When he said that, he was in the midst of performing and recording some of the most beautiful, nimble music of his life, as a soloist, in duets, and as a sideman in a quartet. Hank Jones: A Legendary Work Ethic 2010-05-18T17:21:00Z

For Shaw, that was part of the attraction of “Fragments,” beyond the obvious appeal of writing for a soloist whose visible commitment expresses such a clear love of music. A Cellist Breaks Music Into ‘Fragments,’ Then Connects Them 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

In his chamber ballets, which, until now, have been created outside the walls of his home company, he eschews geometric pattern and the hierarchy of soloists, demi-soloists and corps. Troy Schumacher Prepares His First Work for City Ballet 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

Marvelous soloists abound; the superbly vivid Herman Cornejo and the unstoppably assertive James Whiteside are among the few principals who dance like stars. Too Many Cooks at American Ballet Theater? 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z

The piano part is a strenuous workout for the soloist. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Tchaikovsky at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-07-08T20:24:36Z

As ever, there are ideas in abundance: the relationship between composer and performer, between composition and performance, between soloist and collaborator. 22 Musicals, Plays, Concerts, Dances and Festivals You Can’t Miss This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

Of the soloists, Swanson was the only one who attempted to get into character for the operatic first half. Review | Choral Arts hits the mark with a serious Rossini 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z

Will they end up as soloists, orchestral players, educators, entrepreneurs? Music Review: Ensemble ACJW at Zankel Hall 2014-05-11T20:28:02Z

But the most compelling moments belonged to the choir and soloists, whose ecstatic reading of the Mass elevated Marsalis's riffs to the high heavens. Abyssinian Mass – review 2012-07-17T18:30:01Z

Unusually, she was taken into the Kirov Ballet with the rank of soloist, and promoted to principal soon after. Alla Sizova, Star Kirov Ballerina, Dies at 75 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

The company’s first female Asian American soloist — her father is Filipino and her mother is Italian — she is outspoken about her aim to bring equality to the ballet world. A ‘Rogue Ballerina’ Gives a Candid Account of Ballet Culture 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z

He appeared as a soloist in the “Ode to Joy” finale of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony the night before the Olympics opening ceremony in a special L.A. How Plácido Domingo taught L.A. to love opera 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Ms. LeCrone’s “Symphonic Études” — handsomely dressed by Freda Bromberg with beautiful color distinctions for corps, soloists, ballerina and male dancer — maintained a complex response to different components and tensions of Schumann’s music. Contrasting Gelsey Kirkland’s Troupe and Ballet Academy East 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

We often see it described as a kind of battle between soloist and orchestra. At Seattle Baroque Orchestra, virtuosity of a collegial kind 2014-01-19T18:23:06Z

Parallel worlds of soloist and ensemble at once meet and spin off on their own, not in combat but in dialogue. The Merry Widow; Britten Sinfonia 2010-10-23T23:06:00Z

Mr. Janzen, also 25, has been a member of New York City Ballet since 2008 and was promoted to soloist with the company in October. Alex Sharp and Russell Janzen Win Barnes Foundation Prize 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

A busy performing and recording career followed, as he became a favored soloist with major orchestras and at prestigious festivals. Heinrich Schiff, Cellist and Conductor, Dies at 65 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

Over all, the interpretation was elegantly shaped by the soloist and instrumentalists, although it didn’t quite reach its ideal potency. Music Review: Sacred Vivaldi, Somber and Elegant 2011-04-22T21:57:36Z

But if a pianist lacks the muscle to complete the race, it becomes an endurance test for both soloist and listeners. Music Review: Lola Astanova With the Orchestra of St. Luke’s 2013-01-26T01:04:56Z

Sensitive accompaniments for soloists of the caliber of Rudolf Serkin and Zino Francescatti aside, there is little here of Ormandy’s muscular Beethoven, and his Mozart is limited to one, brilliantly effervescent symphony. 120 CDs Later, a Conductor’s Legacy Is Still Uncertain 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z

The pianist Anna Fedorova was a sensitive, poetic soloist in Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2, a nod to the Polish support for the Freedom Orchestra project. Review: A Ukrainian Orchestra Speaks With Quiet Intensity 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z

She went on to become the third African-American female soloist in the American Ballet Theater’s history. Under Armour's Stunning Ballerina Ad Aims to Lure Women From Lululemon 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

The second half of the program featured three brilliant soloists. Music Review: New York Philharmonic?s Chinese New Year Gala 2012-01-25T22:49:50Z

“Remember, you are never doing something ‘wrong,’ you’re just a featured soloist,” she wrote in an introductory email. Ailey, Balanchine and a Lesson in Mourning 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

An increasing number of soloists consider chamber music an integral part of their performing careers. Chamber Music?s Busy Power Couple 2010-10-15T16:57:00Z

There’s more Bernstein on Sunday, too, when the young players of the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra perform his “Three Meditations From ‘Mass,’” in which Yo-Yo Ma is the cello soloist. 4 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

Natalya Ageyeva, artistic director of the Russian Chamber Music Foundation of Seattle, will be piano soloist on Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3. 6 spring community orchestra concerts 2014-05-01T18:12:10Z

He began his career as a soloist in the mid-20th century, but it was a time when concert presenters rarely booked solo cellists, according to The New York Times. Acclaimed cellist Bernard Greenhouse dead at 95 2011-05-14T16:54:06Z

The four women soloists — notably Ashley Laracey in the first solo — beautifully caught the choreography’s shining marriage of rhythmic flow and brilliant allure. For City Ballet, a Balanchine Season of Renewal 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

It took the quartet of soloists a while to achieve similar balance. Review: A New Conductor Inspires the Orchestra of St. Luke’s 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

A trove within the trove comes in the minutes of the music policy committee, established by the board in 1955 to clamp down on programming choices and the selecting of guest conductors and soloists. Mahler Said What to Whom? 2011-02-03T22:00:06Z

Confronted with D.J.-turntables, a megaphone and clicking metal frogs — not to mention three percussion stations — the soloist resorts to hitting a metal barrel with a giant hammer. Olga Neuwirth Maintains Eclectic Path in Her Music 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

It was the guests and soloists who did a lot of the pushing. Music Review: Robert Glasper at Harlem Stage Gatehouse 2012-12-17T05:15:05Z

Besides performing with the quintet, he appeared often as a soloist with orchestras around the globe. Rolf Smedvig, Trumpeter in the Empire Brass, Dies at 62 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

The final section is a soaring elegy with the soloist circling high above the ensemble as it ascends and, gingerly, descends in measured scales, ending on one last sliding sigh. Jennifer Koh Accompanies the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z

There was a piano concerto, too, Bartók's First, offering a rare opportunity to hear the pianist, conductor and composer Zoltán Kocsis as a soloist. LSO/Ad?s 2010-06-09T21:31:00Z

To be sure, the individual voices of the 12 soloists varied in quality and polish. Music Review: Trinity Wall Street’s ‘Messiah’ 2013-12-08T22:27:39Z

Since leaving the All-Stars in 2008, Ms. Moore has flourished as a soloist and chamber player, in the process extending her repertory backward even as she has continued to forge ahead. Music Review: A Night of Newer Works, With a Glance to the Past 2011-04-22T22:10:09Z

Four lyrical mini-concertos at the heart of the piece proved most captivating, with each of the four soloists displaying a uniquely moody and mysterious sound world. A surprising L.A. Chamber Orchestra concert features two Wolfgangs' music — and a rare clarinet 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

While the soloists aren’t rats, they, too, are subject to the interventions of the figures in hazmat suits that periodically emerge to delineate boundaries and escort characters on and off. Review: A Witty ‘Lohengrin’ Returns to the Bayreuth Festival 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

This, in turn, has made it possible for Voyager to enter into the tradition of the distinctive soloist, partnering with orchestras or chamber groups like Signal. It’s Alive! It’s With the Band! A Computer Soloist Holds Its Own 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z

Vera Beths was the soloist in Beethoven’s Romance for Violin and Orchestra in F. It was a tentative performance marred by memory slips and intonation problems. Music Review: Eric Jacobsen Leads the Knights at Naumburg Bandshell 2010-08-04T20:18:00Z

Since the emergence of the quartet, which released its first album on Verve in 2002, jazz’s aesthetic center has moved perceptibly: away from the hotshot soloist and toward a more collectivist, band-driven ideal. Wayne Shorter’s New Album Is ‘Without a Net’ 2013-01-31T17:38:26Z

The composer’s vocal writing is, meanwhile, a tour de force for the soloists. An Opera That Travels Through Time 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

She was, and was promoted to soloist in 1993 and to the coveted top position of principal just a year later. Ariana Lallone prepares to bow out of Pacific Northwest Ballet 2011-03-30T23:08:55Z

Ms. Mutter, looking typically glamorous in one of her trademark strapless gowns, was soloist and leader in three violin concertos Mozart wrote as a teenager. Music Review: Pairing Wolfgangs From Two Eras 2010-11-19T22:50:00Z

There was magic in the interplay between soloist and individual orchestra voices, and in Mr. Müller-Schott’s hushed, almost lifeless penultimate note that grew into the soaring, jubilant conclusion. Budapest Festival Orchestra Has Fun at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

And on Thursday, the brilliant Dutch violinist Janine Jansen, continuing her Perspectives series at Carnegie, was the soloist in Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1. Review: Concertgebouw Orchestra Shows Off Its Legacy at Carnegie 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

Martin Helmchen, one of today's finest young pianists, was the well-nigh perfect soloist in the Mozart, playing with refined muscularity and wonderfully alert to the melancholy poetry that lurk beneath the work's gracious surface. Hall?/Elder - review 2011-02-27T17:47:54Z

The violinist James Ehnes was the guest soloist in a lithe, shapely account of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor. Music Review: Charles Dutoit Leads Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-17T22:43:09Z

Between these two works, the Canadian James Ehnes was the soloist in Britten's Violin Concerto, written just before the second world war. BSO/Karabits – review 2012-11-30T17:56:34Z

Her soloist contract with Miami, beginning in May 2019, was meant to be her comeback. What Is a Ballet Body? 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

Occasionally the male soloist would slowly rise from his chair and sing a brief Persian pop riff. 2010-02-03T21:58:00Z

That is one less nomination than the group garnered in 2011, but more than any other group or soloist on this year’s list. Calle 13 Leads Latin Grammy Nominees 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Chris Thile as mandolin soloist at Carnegie Hall on Saturday in a program that included his Mandolin Concerto. Music Review: Chris Thile and Mandolin Join Orpheus Ensemble at Carnegie 2012-03-26T22:38:28Z

Friday night’s concert, the second one devoted solely to the music of Shostakovich, proved spectacular indeed in every respect: the orchestra, the soloist, and the conductor. Seattle Symphony concert lives up to ‘spectacular’ title | Classical review 2013-05-18T15:37:36Z

“Some women constrain themselves to get the step right,” said Skylar Brandt, a soloist at Ballet Theater. The Place to Challenge Ballet’s Gender Stereotypes? In Daily Class 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

The soloist was Sol Gabetta, an Argentine of French and Russian descent who now lives in Switzerland, where she runs her own chamber music festival. Baltimore Symphony goes waltzing without the usual partners 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gilbert will also conduct two other commissioned scores by Americans: “Time Machine” for violin and orchestra by Sebastian Currier, with Anne-Sophie Mutter as soloist; and “a Voice, a Messenger” by Aaron Jay Kernis. Music: Philharmonic in Red, White and Blue? Not Quite Yet 2010-03-01T06:39:00Z

Hip-hop D.J.’s, meanwhile, became experts on the physical possibilities of needles hitting vinyl and mixer knobs being manipulated, scratching their way into the music’s foreground as percussion soloists. Critic’s Notebook: At the Electric Zoo and Rock the Bells Festivals 2012-09-03T22:49:01Z

Next year the ensemble will again tour internationally, in China, conducted by Charles Dutoit and with the pianist Yundi Li as soloist. National Youth Orchestra Prepares for Concerts 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

The festival chorus will be joined by the National High School Festival Chorus and Thomas Cooley, as tenor soloist. A Requiem So Big That Performing It Takes a Multitude 2011-02-06T02:08:04Z

The last section of the play is a soloist movement overflowing with sorrow and savagery. In 'Head of Passes,' a mother comes to terms with a storm, a secret and God 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z

Despite these challenges, Copeland became the second black soloist in the history of the most prestigious American ballet company by the age of 24. Watch This Inspiring Under Armour Ad Starring Ballerina Misty Copeland 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

It sounds an unconventional piece, in which the players are soloists, yet somehow "overlap". Guardian book club: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

His conducting was Ellingtonian, as in the Duke, making space for scintillating soloists and signaling orchestral riffs at the same time. Everything goes right for Gustavo Dudamel in Beethoven program 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

Likewise, the soloist Ashley Laracey is unrecognizable in “Common Ground”; while she exudes a bold heady fragrance here, you also follow her like a shyly inquiring mind. City Ballet’s Season of Renewal 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

The four vocal soloists, garbed in stylish and coordinated gray suits and dresses, initially wandered aimlessly onto the stage and a platform behind the orchestra. L.A. Phil gets theatrical with Beethoven's Missa Solemnis 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

She wasn’t always aware of her talent for acting, but Mr. McKenzie brought it to her attention after she performed Twyla Tharp’s “Sinatra Suite,” before she was promoted to soloist in 2007. Misty Copeland, a Ballerina With Real Acting Chops 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

The Mass is written for a choir, four soloists and a small wind ensemble, and the slim, angular instruments twine with agile precision around the warm harmonies of the voices. Music Review: Manhattan School of Music in ‘King David’ and Stravinsky’s Mass 2014-04-07T20:32:11Z

Daniel Moore was an excellent baritone soloist in two numbers. Review: With a Tribute to an Esteemed Organist, Simon Rattle Settles Into New York 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Chailly’s Aug. 14 performance includes four choirs and eight soloists. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Fearless’ and ‘You’ve Got Mail’ 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z