By David Remnick Lang is a superb, evolving musician, who earns huge fees because of his novelty and his flair — and because he is an avatar of the Chinese ascendance.
Lang Lang is a superb, evolving musician, but he does not earn the money he does because he is better than, say, Maurizio Pollini, Martha Argerich, or, in truth, a dozen others.
Unless new profit-sharing models evolve, musicians can no longer make a living from recording.
They are seasoned and evolving musicians who have played with the living members of the Dead at one time or another.
That is why musicians' unions evolved, and why some musicians have gone so far as to try to extend the conductorless Baroque string ensemble model into the Romantic orchestral realm.
As he has evolved as a musician, Cudi broadened his skill set from rapper to instrumentalist, and the result has been a series of records as expansive as they are unique.
Trained as a blacksmith, then as an artist, Mr. Fuchs has evolved into a musician by inner necessity, without any formal training.
Final Fantasy XI Seekers of Adoulin Original Soundtrack received tepid reviews from reviewers, with Derek Heemsbergen of RPGFan calling it "a fine demonstration of how Mizuta has evolved as a musician", though he described several of the tracks as "safe" and "not the best".
What happened, of course, is that both men got older, and continued to evolve as musicians, and raised their families.
