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.

As a soloist and conductor, he is probably best known for his interpretations of the core classical repertoire, including Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms and Bartók.

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.

In an interview given to Elyse Mach ( Great Contemporary Pianists Speak for Themselves, Dover Books on Music ), Bolet extensively mentioned an obscure piece by Joseph Marx which was, according to Bolet's own words, his favorite among virtuoso concertos because of the enormous show of strength required from the soloist.

Within this ensemble, the only professional musicians required were the tenor soloist, a string quartet to lead the other strings, and the percussionists.

A bidding process is used to decide which player declares the trump suit, as well as the contract, which is the required number of tricks the soloist must attain.

In an interview given to Elyse Mach (" Great Contemporary Pianists Speak for Themselves "; Dover Books on Music ), Jorge Bolet said that the " Romantic Piano Concerto " by Joseph Marx was his favorite among the great virtuoso concertos because of the enormous show of strength required from the soloist.

This allows the soloist frequent opportunities to display chromatic figurations, and the composer to demonstrate his creativity in the reworking of the material.

Beethoven ’ s five piano concertos increase the technical demands made on the soloist.

The technical demands on the soloist are formidable, with generous use of multiple stopping, broken chords, rapid scale passages, and rhythmic variation.

The revised version still requires a considerably high level of technical facility on the part of the soloist.

Foremost in importance is the display of the expressive and technical abilities of the soloist.

Even though the third ( and last ) of Saint-Saëns ' violin concertos seems to impose fewer technical demands on the soloist than its predecessors, its melodic invention and impressionistic subtlety present significant interpretive challenges.

He was the soloist at the premiere of his Piano Concerto No. 1 in 1859.

He was the soloist at the premiere of his Piano Concerto No. 2 in 1881, in Pest.

A widely related story, attributed to Richard ( Prophet ) Jennings was that Davis, while in Detroit playing at the Blue Bird club as a guest soloist in Billy Mitchell's house band along with Tommy Flanagan, Elvin Jones, Betty Carter, Yusef Lateef, Barry Harris, Thad Jones, Curtis Fuller and Donald Byrd stumbled into Baker's Keyboard Lounge out of the rain, soaking wet and carrying his trumpet in a paper bag under his coat, walked to the bandstand and interrupted Max Roach and Clifford Brown in the midst of performing Sweet Georgia Brown by beginning to play My Funny Valentine, and then, after finishing the song, stumbled back into the rainy night.

But when he returned to New York at the end of January 1930, the renowned soloist did not rejoin Whiteman and performed only sparingly.

Despite concerns that Sullivan at nearly 12 years of age was too old to give much service as a treble before his voice broke, he was accepted and soon became a soloist and, by 1856, was promoted to " first boy ".

* Daniil Simkin, soloist at American Ballet Theatre

His 1929 performances of Till Eulenspiegel and Don Juan with the Berlin State Opera Orchestra have long been considered the best of his early electrical recordings ; even the original 78 rpm discs had superior sound for their time, and the performances were top-notch and quite exciting at times, despite a noticeable mistake by the Horn soloist in the famous opening passage of Till Eulenspiegel.

Sting performed two of his Police compositions as a soloist – " Roxanne " and " Message in a Bottle "' – appearing on all four nights of the show at the Theatre Royal in London.

He emerged as a soloist from this choral tradition, largely as a result of the admiration of the composer Michael Tippett, who heard him while at Canterbury and recognized the unique beauty of his voice.

Shankar heard the lead musician for the Maihar court, Allauddin Khan, in December 1934 at a music conference in Kolkata and Uday convinced the Maharaja of Maihar in 1935 to allow Khan to become his group's soloist for a tour of Europe.

In 1950 John Tobin conducted a performance of Messiah in St Paul's Cathedral with the orchestral forces specified by the composer, a choir of 60, a counter-tenor alto soloist, and modest attempts at vocal elaboration of the printed notes, in the manner of Handel's day.

He was the soloist at another performance of the concerto just over a year later.

He conducted a Royal Philharmonic Society concert at which Ralph Vaughan Williams was presented with the society's Gold Medal, and another RPS concert at which Mahler's music, rarely heard in the mid-twentieth century, was given – Kindertotenlieder, with Elena Gerhardt as soloist.

In England, a performance of the Piano Concerto on 22 October 1907 at the Queen's Hall was praised for the brilliance of the soloist, Theodor Szánto, and for the power of the music itself.

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

Once LaVerne died, Maxene and Patty continued to perform as a duo until 1968, when Maxene announced she would become the Dean of Women at Tahoe Paradise College, teaching acting, drama, and speech at a Lake Tahoe college and worked with troubled teens ), and Patty was once again eager to be a soloist.

* June 13 – Eugene Goosens conducts the UK premieres of Igor Stravinsky's Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments, with the composer as soloist, and of Ottorino Respighi's Feste Romane, at the Queen's Hall, London.

* John Serry, Sr. performs as the first on stage concert accordion soloist at the Radio City Music Hall.

He bought the xylorimba in 1960 from a percussionist who was on-staff at Paramount Pictures but upon retirement ; this instrument had been used in the vaudeville era, when musicians would play as a soloist, running up and down this very large, 5-octave instrument.

On April 7, 1994, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Sir Gilbert Levine performed at the Vatican in the historic " Papal Concert to Commemorate the Holocaust ", with the cellist Lynn Harrell as soloist and the actor Richard Dreyfuss as narrator.

The three children were choristers at St. Leonard's Church, Bromley-by-Bow, and for a time, Warner was the choir's soloist.