"Sometimes, great soloists are great because of the context they are in, " Weiss says.
Real jazz soloists break the rules in interesting ways, which GenJam still cannot really do.
Britten had intentionally picked an international lineup of soloists as part of his universalist message to the world.
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And so I had these two guys, being successful soloists, wanting to play trio music like trio players.
The work is performed by three vocal soloists, chorus, children's chorus, a trio of counter-tenors and three dancers.
But the most dramatic change is Sellars' incorporation of three dancers who interact with the soloists in amazing ways.
In it, Boulez put an instrumental ensemble of 21 musicians on stage and placed six soloists around the hall.
Back home in New York, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, 52, is choosing the repertory, inviting visiting soloists and commissioning new works.
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The seats in Kyoto Hall were overflowing with dozens of bands and over three hundred soloists from all over Japan.
The sounds produced by the soloists were fed into a computer and recombined with those produced by the entire group.
Kathrine Crockett, one of the company's soloists, started studying at the Martha Graham School in the 1980s, when she was 18.
Soloists Anthony Huxley and, especially, Chase Finlay took to the stage with a style, confidence and projection that reveal stellar fire.
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The artists have all their expenses paid while they play a concert season, build their repertoires and study with veteran conductors and soloists.
But however much I pressed my interviewees to find out what soloists and conductors get paid in Scotland, they were uniformly coy on the subject.
Arms flying, he steps in and out of the band as he conducts, and the soloists do their thing among them son Anthony Wilson on guitar.
The sounds of soloists on the saxophone, the horn, the flute, and the clarinet flowed from the stage one by one, and finally the trumpet solos began.
After a half-century, this remains a thrilling piece, and runs the scale of emotions from reverence to exaltation, all brilliantly executed by Ellington's elite corps of soloists.
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As the two soloists wove their rhythms around each other, it sounded like a conversation, and one wondered if percussion might be a universal language after all.
Later, he would document the Faust story in a powerful stage drama with chorus and soloists, and build a complex, five-hour operatic spectacle on the ruins of Troy.
Standouts among the scholar soloists were soprano Anne-Carolyn Bird, who negotiated the high tessitura fearlessly, and Matt Boehler, whose opulent bass brought particular humanity to Kepler's inner doubts.
The rock trio drew inspiration from the jazz orchestra's soloists.
He hopes his hyperinstruments will be adopted by more soloists.
After Epstein died in 1967 the group began to break up with its members going their own way, sometimes as soloists, sometimes forming new groups, sometimes doing not much.
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Supported by the composer's huge bass sound, the soloists come and go over a Latin polyrhythm, and you have no trouble believing you're in the midst of a south-of-the-border debauch.
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For the "War Requiem, " Britten assembled a large orchestra, a smaller chamber orchestra, two organs, three vocal soloists, a chorus and a boys' choir (positioned at a distance, with a portable organ or harmonium).
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First performed in Los Angeles 10 months ago, "Gospel" is written for three soloists two mezzo-sopranos and a tenor who take the parts of Mary Magdalene, her sister Martha, and their brother Lazarus.
He also adapted to a music that was primarily played by soloists who toured on an international circuit of jazz clubs and concert halls so effortlessly that you'd think he'd been working that way all of his life.
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Beginning on Christmas Day, 1999, and ending on the last day of 2000, he travelled with the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists to more than fifty churches in Europe and America, including hallowed places where Bach worked.
Kepler was a teacher of mathematics in Graz and Linz, and Mr. Helfrich set the opera in a modern-era school, with Kepler as the professor, the six soloists three men and three women as his scholar-disciples, and the chorus as his eager, note-taking students.
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