organist

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Recent Examples of organist Total score: Solid work by the organist, though. 25/40. Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025 Burroughs invited Dubois to perform at the church, and the organist accepted — setting the stage for his first engagement in the Bay Area. Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2025 Led since its inception by guitarist and organist Jorge Rodríguez Grández, Los Mirlos is named after Peruvian jungle blackbirds. George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2025 The saga is chronicled on his 2009 LP Fork in the Road.) Talkin’ To The Trees is Young’s first album with his new band, the Chrome Hearts, which includes guitarist Micah Nelson, organist Spooner Oldham, bassist Corey McCormick, and drummer Anthony Logerfo. Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for organist
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Noun
  • Celebrities including Naomi Campbell and Gossip Girl's Ed Westwick, looked on as superstar pianist Lang Lang played classic Disney tunes accompanied by a 107-piece orchestra and a 100-voice choir floating on a pontoon on the Arabian Gulf.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
  • His mother, Ethel, was a pianist and introduced him to music.
    Suzy Evans, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • The firing after a nearly 30-year run appeared to surprise Starkey, after reports that Daltrey was not happy with the drummer’s performance at a March Royal Albert Hall gig, complaining from stage that Starkey’s loud playing was throwing him off.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 27 May 2025
  • Among the others believed to have been on the plane was Daniel Williams, the former drummer for Ohio metal band The Devil Wears Prada.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2025
Noun
  • Their oldest son, Nathaniel Wiley-Harrigan, is a top high school trumpeter pursuing a career in jazz trumpet performance and their youngest son, Noah Harrigan, plays violin and is learning piano through Suburban Youth Symphony Orchestra.
    Jessi Virtusio, Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
  • On the original, Braxton (on flute), the trumpeter Kenny Wheeler and the bassist Dave Holland align on an ingenious cyclical theme, tacking on one new phrase with each run-through, while the drummer Jerome Cooper adds fluttering texture.
    Hank Shteamer, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Anoushka’s accompanist that night was Zakir Hussain, one of the world’s foremost tabla drum players.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The series is organized by McDaniel, a veteran Broadway music director and accompanist who also oversees the Cabaret & Performance conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 4 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Born in Los Angeles at the turn of the century when Benjamin met Wood at Cal Arts after transferring from the Eastman School of Music (where the keyboardist met the other three founders), the group corralled and integrated a diverse array of influences and references.
    Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 23 May 2025
  • Lead singer/keyboardist Lonnie Jordan is the only original member in the current lineup.
    Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Pianist Sonia Lee and flutist Pija Hocevar will perform at the Platt Library.
    Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 30 May 2025
  • The lineup includes three Grammy winners — saxophonist David Sanchez, bassist John Clayton and drummer Lewis Nash — along with pianist and six-time Grammy nominee Gerald Clayton and top San Diego flutist Holly Hofmann.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 May 2025
Noun
  • This trumpet player and composer, Rob Mazurek, plays with percussionist Chad Taylor in the band Chicago Underground.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 23 May 2025
  • While the band has had at least 16 different lineups since its inception in 1968, two of its members — guitarist and lead singer Roy Gullane and flutist, tin whistle player, singer and percussionist Phil Smillie — have been on board since 1970.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • If consumption of that smash — as well as the project in full — continues, Rosie could tie Jung Kook’s Golden in just two weeks and match as the second-longest charting album by any K-pop soloist in the history of the Billboard 200.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
  • The performance will include the chancel choir, Dorian bells and soloists.
    La Jolla Light, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2025

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