Word: soloiste
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There may never have been a soloist who passed so freely over the closely guarded borders between jazz and classical. Marsalis, who has just turned 22, makes the usual declaration at customs ("I'm just a musician, I just play music"), but though his predisposition may be toward jazz, his training is markedly classical. "Not very much is similar between jazz and classical," he says, "but both are about the elevation of the audience. Both have spirituality. You learn the jazz vocabulary by listening to records and watching other musicians. Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey. Jazz...
...Fonteyn partnership. Nureev, 24, comes from a Ural peasant family, had danced with the Kirov company for ten years at the time of his defection. Ballet fans who have watched him in Paris call him the outstanding male dancer in the West-and probably in the world. A gifted soloist, he is also known as a superb partner of the kind that 42-year-old Fonteyn has frequently lacked...
Consider what happens when a modern symphony orchestra and soloist perform a Mozart piano concerto. The string section, often much larger than any Mozart had at his disposal, blasts out its parts on violins and cellos better suited to powerful Strauss tone poems. The wind instruments are louder and more penetrating than classical flutes, oboes and clarinets and more complex in their mechanisms. The piano, a huge concert grand with a booming bass, is worlds removed from its gentler 18th century forerunner. In this welter of sound, inner voices are lost, delicate balances are destroyed. Exciting as the performance might...
Although the spring recital was her first solo performance, Chung has played in three other major concerts this year, including one at the Kennedy Center in February that she was asked to play in after she received the highest score at the National Symphony's Young Soloist Auditions in January...
...comparatively not so large, reporters at the televised press conference began to titter. The President grew flustered, then spotted the cause. Nancy Reagan, 61, was in the wings with a cake for her husband's 72nd birthday. The assembled journalists launched into the appropriate chorus, with one quavering soloist adding, "How old are you?" Reagan sang back that it was "two days early." And while a few correspondents groused that the conference had been manipulated, the President happily cut slices out of something besides the budget...