There was in the Brahms none of the mysterious and marvelous alchemy by which a great conductor can bring soloist, orchestra and music to ultimate fusion.

In 1817 he was made conductor of the college orchestra, composing a number of symphonies, and concertos for various instruments-including six for flute about 1818-1819, and whose autograph scores are in the Naples conservatory, where they were presumably first performed with him as soloist.

He negotiated what Morrison calls " a dazzling series of mega-projects, each built around the personal enthusiasm of a ' star ' conductor or soloist ", producing sell-out houses.

* Shadows, for Piano and Orchestra ( 2011 ; commissioned for pianist Jeffrey Biegel, project coordinator and piano soloist, 8 orchestras in the USA, Canada and England ; premiere with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlos Miguel Prieto conductor ; October 28 / 29, 2011 )

Since that time, almost every major international orchestra, conductor and soloist has performed at the Proms.

Besides playing the flute both in orchestras and as a soloist, he is a conductor, and spent several years exclusively as an orchestra and opera conductor.

As a conductor, Khachaturian made several commercial recordings, including a 1953 recording of his second symphony with the National Philharmonic Orchestra, a 1963 stereo recording of the symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic, and EMI recordings of suites from Gayane and Masquerade and his violin concerto in 1954 ( with David Oistrakh as soloist ) with the Philharmonia Orchestra.

Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I.

An all-Mozart double CD was released in 2003 featuring both orchestral and chamber music with Pinchas Zukerman as conductor and violin soloist.

* James Gourlay: conductor and internationally renowned tuba soloist

Within a year Suggia was asked to appear as a soloist with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under its conductor, Arthur Nikisch.

As soloist, conductor, composer and teacher, Hall is still remembered in Maine.

* colla parte: with the soloist ; as an instruction in an orchestral score or part, it instructs the conductor or orchestral musician to follow the rhythm and tempo of a solo performer ( usually for a short passage )

When conductor Leopold Stokowski invited noted African-American opera singer Shirley Verrett to sing with the Houston Symphony in the early 1960s, he had to rescind his invitation when the orchestra board refused to accept a black soloist.

Wind section members will generally lightly stamp their feet or pat one hand on their leg to show approval to a conductor or soloist.

Premiere: Lisbon, 1970, Lisbon Phylarmonic Orchestra, Helena Cláudio, soloist, Joly Braga Santos, conductor.

Premiere: Lisbon, 1972, Tivoli Theatre, National Radio Symphony Orchestra, S. Carlos Theatre Choir, soloist soprano Elsa Saque, Álvaro Cassuto conductor.

Premiere: Lisbon 1974, National Radio Symphony Orchestra ; soloist, Helena de Sá e Costa, Silva Pereira conductor.

In April 1912, Boulanger made her debut as a conductor, leading the Société des Matinées Musicales orchestra in her 1908 cantata La Sirène, two of her songs and then Pugno's Concertstück for piano and orchestra with the composer as soloist.

He is the founder of the baroque orchestra Modo Antiquo and has made more than forty recordings as soloist and conductor, some of them in co-production with the German broadcast company Westdeutscher Rundfunk.

When the conductor Leopold Stokowski invited her to sing with the Houston Symphony in the early 1960s, he had to rescind his invitation when the orchestra board refused to accept a black soloist.

In 2008, he was a soloist on the Grammy-winning recording of Brahms's Ein Deutsches Requiem ( Simon Rattle, conductor ; Simon Halsey, chorus master ) on EMI Classics.

In 1937, Gingold won a spot in the NBC Symphony Orchestra, with Arturo Toscanini as its conductor ; he then served as the concertmaster ( and occasional soloist ) of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and later was the Cleveland Orchestra's concertmaster under conductor George Szell.

He prefers to have his soloist performing and thus we get only brief glimpses of what his ensemble work is like.

For example, the yagura ( raised platform ) that both the odaiko soloist and odaiko rest upon is similar to the one see in the movie.

While amplification is rarely used in classical music, in some cases where a bass soloist performs a concerto with a full orchestra, subtle amplification called acoustic enhancement may be used.

The jazz soloist is often supported by a rhythm section who " comp " ( accompany the soloist ), by playing chords and rhythms that outline the song structure and complement the soloist.

* Argentinian soloist Indio Solari referred to the book in the song " Nike is the Culture " ( Nike es la cultura ), singing, " You shout no logo, or don't you shout no logo, or you shout no logo no ".

It is used for rhythmical accompaniment during dances, soloist or choral singing.

* October 25 – The first performance of the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is given in Boston, Massachusetts with Hans von Bülow as soloist.

However, in other musical styles, such as world, jazz, classical, and electronica, the function of a drummer is often shifted from " time keeper " to soloist, whereby the main melody becomes the rhythmic development generated by the drummer or percussionist.

When a musician hears Bix's solo on ' Singing the Blues ', he becomes aware after two bars that the soloist knows exactly what he is doing and that he has an exquisite sense of discord and resolution.

The etymology is uncertain, but the word seems to have originated from the conjunction of the two Latin words conserere ( meaning to tie, to join, to weave ) and certamen ( competition, fight ): the idea is that the two parts in a concerto, the soloist and the orchestra, alternate episodes of opposition, cooperation, and independence in the creation of the music flow.

The slow movement is a dramatic dialogue between the soloist and the orchestra.

In fact, argument in the traditional developmental sense is replaced by a kind of variation technique in which soloist and orchestra interweave their ideas.

Traditionally, a ' break ' is considered to be the part of a funk or jazz song during which the melody " breaks " to let the rhythm section, or soloist, play unaccompanied.

Such is the case in Hail, bright Cecilia ( The Ode on St Cecilia's Day 1692 ) in which the solo "' Tis Nature's Voice " has the range F < sub > 3 </ sub > to B < sub > 4 </ sub > ( similar to those stage roles cited previously ), whereas, in the duet " Hark each tree " the countertenor soloist sings from E < sub > 4 </ sub > to D < sub > 5 </ sub > ( in the trio " With that sublime celestial lay ".

The soprano soloist and choir are accompanied by the full orchestra, the baritone and tenor soloists are accompanied by the chamber orchestra, and the boys ' choir is accompanied by a small positive organ ( this last group ideally being situated at some distance from the full orchestra ).

The situation is only seemingly different in the case of such late classical works as Beethoven's Fourth and Fifth Piano Concertos, where the soloist is heard at the outset: as the later unfolding of those movements makes clear, the opening piano solo or early piano flourishes actually precede the start of the exposition proper.

Towards the end of the recapitulation of a concerto movement in sonata form, there is usually a cadenza for the soloist alone.

Jonathan Haas is one of the few timpanists who markets himself as a soloist.

She is best known and widely acclaimed as a concerto soloist, and also performs as a recitalist and chamber musician.

Another of the Symphony's recordings now out-of-print because it was recorded for the Pro Arte label is that of Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 1, with Peter Serkin as soloist and Robert Shaw conducting.