Sentence examples for first-rate instruments from inspiring English sources
The President also exhibited a large series of specimens illustrating his own special subjects, shown by means of fifty microscopes, lent to him by four of the principal makers in London (Becks, Browning, Crouch, and Ross), and about 150 first-rate instruments and objects were contributed by the Fellows of the society and other friends.
In 2011 the Nippon Music Foundation, which has built up a collection of more than a dozen first-rate instruments that it lends out to musicians, sold the Lady Blunt Stradivari — which had changed hands in 1971 for $200,000 — for $15.9 million.
In this sense, by favouring the establishment of integrated services networks, the CCM is a first-rate instrument to create local services networks and to consolidate their implementation.
During the ensuing years, Mr. Graffman said, he admired the speed at which she learned repertory, her broad range of artistic interests, her sense of humor and her ability to produce a "gorgeous sound" from even second-rate instruments.
This is not to disparage the pleasures of hearing first-rate period instrument ensembles perform concert music, especially when led by great conductors.
Until then Mr. Christie's appearances were in staged or concert versions of Baroque operas with Les Arts Florissants, his company of singers attuned to the niceties of the period's vocal style, supported by a first-rate period-instrument ensemble.
Now the pool of musicians able to turn out polished, technically first-rate performances on period instruments in the United States is large enough to support active early-music scenes on both coasts.
But the string playing was supple and well tuned, the continuo instruments provided a solid foundation, and the horn and trumpet playing was generally first-rate.
Early-music fans in New York have long wished for a period-instrument orchestra that can survive more than a handful of seasons and develop into a permanent, first-rate band.
