Sentence examples for core musicians from inspiring English sources
Ellington's laid-back approach meant that he kept a cadre of long-serving core musicians together over several decades.
"Fela!," for instance, uses the core musicians of Antibalas, a band that was playing Afrobeat long before the show was conceived.
She's touring with the core musicians from "Middle Cyclone," including Paul Rigby, her lead guitarist and arranger, and Jon Rauhouse, who plays rhythm guitar, banjo and pedal steel.
But no one who has followed this conductorless ensemble since its founding in 1972 will be surprised by what it can accomplish by having a group of "core musicians" make the interpretive decisions, and by rehearsing thoroughly.
In Cologne, Schmidt began playing keyboards with the core musicians that would eventually form Can: his fellow Stockhausen student Holger Czukay on bass; Michael Karoli, a young rock- and gypsy-music-influenced pupil of Czukay's, on electric guitar; and the inhumanly precise jazz-trained drummer Jaki Liebezeit.
For its first offering of the season, on Thursday evening at the center's Jerome Robbins Theater, the orchestra fielded its core musicians — the St . Lukes Chamber Ensemble, 14 players strong — for a centenary commemoration of the premiere of Mahler's hefty orChamber Ensemblecle, "Das Lied von der Erde".
Reasons for that decision are plentiful, but one stands above the others: the casual novice market is a whole lot bigger than the hard-core musician one.
But a core of musicians from that ensemble, in honor of Nygaard, an inspiring and adventurous musician, has continued his legacy.
His group, which he called the Arkestra, was a kind of collective, anchored by a core of musicians who spent almost their entire careers with him.
Specialists who follow American orchestras say that the Louisiana Philharmonic has succeeded largely because it has a core of musicians prepared to make extraordinary sacrifices.
Mr. Seeger's slightly shaky voice is joined here by singers from Beacon, N.Y., his Hudson Valley town, and a core of musicians including the guitarist David Bernz, the clarinetist Perry Robinson, the violinist Sara Milonovich and the bassist Mark Murphy.
