Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Solo or Luke Skywalker? Han Solo...
...Coats, Harvard Square's only country musicperformer, began performing out-of-doors tostrengthen some of her music skills. "My voice wasstrong, but my guitar wasn't as good, so I thoughtstreet performing would be a good way to improvethat." She didn't feel ready to solo in clubs, soshe started playing in the Square last June. "Itwas definitely a career move," says Coats. Thecountry music singer now gets regular gigs atlocal clubs...
...instantly identifiable elements of N.W.A., the rap group that took the genre to the harsher heights of "gangsta rap," with profane language and violent imagery that kept the music off radio stations and marching out of stores. Following N.W.A.'s dissolution, Wright began a second career as solo artist, producer--and a truly offbeat dabbler in Republican politics...
...tone became a little strident, undermining the carefree quality of the movement in its recapitulation. He fortunately saved some of the stridence for the bold, personal statements of the second movement's Largo ma non troppo. In the cantabile section of the movement, violist Hsin'Yun Hwang offered solo playing of utmost sincerity with none of dryness that pervades chamber music today...
...Trio of the third movement revealed the Borromeo's only substantial weakness. When the texture of this classical work thinned to only one or two instruments, the players failed to fill the space left by the tuttis. Despite the intimacy of these solo and quasi-solo sections, the instruments must expand their scope to aid the continuity of the piece; one should still feel that a quartet is on the stage...