Sentence examples for a major performer from inspiring English sources

Anderson's emergence as a major performer in America in the mid-1930s was carefully orchestrated.

(Holland) NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Thursday) It's nice when a major performer plays a new work; it's even nicer when he likes it enough to keep on playing it.

Despite all this, Mr. Simkin, who is on the short side (5-8 ½, he says) and boyishly slight of build, has often been considered a niche dancer, a nimble star without the gravitas of a major performer.

First, as ripples from the conflict edged closer to Baalbek, near the Syrian border in the Bekaa Valley, security concerns cost the festival a major performer, the soprano Renée Fleming.

Farida has earned enough recognition to become not only a major performer but also the first woman to teach maqam, and her concert is reportedly the first performance by a female Iraqi maqam singer in the United States.

But a major performer who makes a bad or vainglorious choice or is dishonest with the paying customer like, to my mind, Liza Minnelli's recent Palace performance, is fair game.

But I'd wager that Ms. LuPone is the only major performer to face the challenge of inhabiting both of these magnificent monsters all but simultaneously.

The day's first major performer was Wayne Wonder, who croons R&B songs over reggae beats, and it turned out you could hear his set just fine from the courtyard behind the stadium, where food vendors had set up shop.

The first major performer from the island was Lionel Gittens, who was followed by Percy Green, Maggie Goodridge and Clevie Gittens.

'Richard II' The Almeida has a habit of dispatching major performers across the Atlantic.

"The people who came to New York were pretty major performers on an international level, whereas there are a lot of people in Chicago who perform on more of a local level.