Word: soloiste
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...families steeped in musical tradition, and as a matter of course were well grounded in the fundamentals of their instruments. That is why Eddie Miller is famed as the man with cleanest tone in the saxophone playing business, and why Irv Fazola was able to get a job as soloist with the technically high faluting Claude Thornhill aggregation...
...love for American jazz is echoed from every kavarna (coffee house) in Prague, applauded compositions by Aaron Copland, William Schuman and Samuel Barber, but gave the loudest ovation to George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, with President Truman's protégé-pianist, Eugene List, as soloist (TIME, April 22). Bernstein led the orchestra through a rousing performance of his own apocalyptic Jeremiah Symphony. After concerts, Bernstein played the piano for Czech Philharmonic's conductor Rafael Kubelik and his violinist wife, updating them on the latest versions of Honky-Tonk Train and Empty Bed Blues...
Bernstein: Jeremiah Symphony (St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein conducting, Nan Merriman, soloist; Victor, 6 sides). The Kid Wonder and a mezzo-soprano destroy Jerusalem. Performance: good...
...railway freight statistician: "As a rule accompaniments are so uninteresting to play, but the melodies of the Barrymore concerto lay so well on the various instruments that our members felt impelled to rise to the occasion." Barrymore made just one stipulation: that he be allowed to choose the soloist. He chose a 13-year-old Chicago high-school freshman with braces on her teeth, whom he had heard play Tschaikovsky and Beethoven in the lobby of a Los Angeles hotel...
...Body and Soul and Sweet Georgia Brown, and really got hot on Benny Goodman's old Don't Be That Way. Pace setter was the hot sax of Private Arthur Pepper, formerly with Gus A.rnheim's band-where Bing Crosby first got his start as a soloist...