Word: soloiste
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...annual Metronome all-star band's "Royal Flush" lacks compactness and unity, but offers a good chance to identify each soloist. There are ten-in all, only two of whom play more than eight bars. The reverse, "I Got Rhythm," by a smaller band, is much better, with the improvisers given more of a chance. Except for a disorganized finale, it's perhaps unequalled in four years of these all-star sessions.... The new Columbia Roswell Sisters album officers the best jazz singing by a trio that can be heard today: Their interpretations far surpass in vitality and harmonic interest...
Booth Tarkington, 72, makes his debut in dress-shirt music this week when the Indianapolis Symphony and a contralto soloist give Credo-words by Tarkington...
...prodigious talker, he smokes fine cigars, was for years a lady-killing bachelor ("I am 99% interested in women"). Rubinstein's bachelorhood ended nine years ago when he married Nela Mlynarski, a Lithuanian. Before she was born her father had conducted at a War saw concert whose soloist was 15-year-old Artur Rubinstein...
Actor Evans always holds the stage; he does not always portray his part. His Macbeth at times has a tortured imagination and reckless cruelty, but never a great warrior's strength or a tragic hero's stature. Evans has the instinct of a reciter, a soloist, reaching out with vocal magnetism to the audience rather than working in with his fellow actors on the stage. He doesn't, for example, talk to the murderers of Banquo; the murderers simply seem to be there so that he can talk. He brings more to the play than...
...Soloist: R. B. Stedman...