Word: soloiste
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...first horn, he was playing in Monroe's Uptown House in Hariem where the greatest jazz musicians of the time would match one another in all-night "cutting" sessions. Davis withdrew from the music scene in the early sixties, but he came back after a year to become a soloist and road manager for the Count Basic Band. Now on his own, he puts down a blues-based, funky sound that has charged listeners for three decades. At Sandy's Jazz Revival in Beverly through...
Special featured soloist this Saturday night will be Harvard's whiz violinist Lynn Chang, performing Mendelssohn's well-known violin concerto...
...usually does not have to be begged to sit down at the piano and play for a convivial group. Once, at a bash for the American Ballet Theater in Texas, he and several other male dancers skinny-dipped in the pool. When he saw a woman soloist at the other end, he led a group of playful men in taking off her bathing suit...
Baryshnikov entered the company at the end of his third year of study-and not as a humble member of the corps. He started as a soloist, and in his first week danced the peasant pas de deux in Giselle. Visiting dancers and critics from abroad noticed him at once, and word began spreading in the West that the Kirov had a new discovery. By 1970, when he was 22, Baryshnikov was enjoying his first Western triumph in London. A little later he was suffering the first signs of official disapproval back home. His preference for clothes-and chicks-from...
...Ravel Concert including Tombeau de Couperin, Mother Goose Ballet, Pavane for a Dead Princess, and Plano Concerto in G; Hugh Wolff, Conductor, Neal Stulberg, plano Soloist; Sanders...