Alexander Polli, a self-described "body flight professional," has released a stunning video that shows him soaring over parts of New Zealand, Norway and Switzerland in a wingsuit.
The New World Symphony is using it a lot, setting up coaching sessions, lessons and other interactions with top-flight professionals around the country.
Union officials want such a clause, saying it is needed to build a strong union, but Mr. Batterman said such a clause might make it harder for the museum to attract top-flight professionals.
I put the question to top-flight professionals in industries from tech to finance to media, all of whom had serious (if often little-known) past lives as musicians.
They obtained teaching jobs for the Moyse Trio at Marlboro College; in 1951 the six of them founded the Marlboro Music School, a summer program that remains distinctive for bringing talented young musicians to play as equals with top-flight professionals and has for decades exerted a profound influence on chamber music.
The idea was to develop a top-flight professional United States cycling team.
Instead, it pitches the viewer into the heart of a top-flight, professional ensemble as it performs the final movement of Sibelius's fifth symphony.
The top-flight professional soccer league for women, which has only five teams, is in danger of losing sanctioning from US Soccer, the sport's governing body in the United States.
If like me, you are the age when being a top-flight professional athlete is now officially – rather than merely practically – impossible, try to remember this whenever you read a news story about the downfall of our society.
The shutdown of the league now leaves the United States with just the Women's National Basketball Association as a top-flight professional league and demonstrates the difficulties that women's sports -- particularly independent leagues -- have in attracting corporate sponsors.
His mediocre performance has also contributed to nonstop media speculation about his personal relationship with James, coverage which makes the NBA resemble a middle school lunchroom more than a top-flight professional sports league.
