Sentence examples for half the musicians from inspiring English sources
The shift became more pronounced this summer, and now about half the musicians playing the Iridium come from rock, blues and pop backgrounds.
The orchestra, which draws on New York's inexhaustible supply of skilled freelancers, hasn't changed all that much; half the musicians on the roster were in the group a decade ago.
On a recent night, the band played with authority, even though at least half the musicians appeared to be too young to remember The Beatles, much less Bunny Berrigan.
Near the end of the first set, it was possible to imagine a borderline across the stage, as half of the musicians played a Mozart string quartet and the other half gradually muscled in, urgent and bleary, with "What Reason Could I Give," an enigmatic ballad by Ornette Coleman.
About half of the musicians come from New York organizations, including the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Orpheus, the Orchestra of St . Lukes and New York City Opera.
To a player who is concentrating intently in a point, such an unexpected pause is like half of the musicians in a symphony inexplicably stopping.
The founders of Black Sabbath, half of the musicians in Led Zeppelin, and the key members of Judas Priest were all raised in Birmingham and its suburbs, surrounded by the wreckage of Germany's attacks on Britain's manufacturing centers.
They found nearly half of the musicians whose deaths were linked to drug or alcohol use also had "adverse childhood experiences," like sexual abuse, or violent or alcoholic parents.
Although the Chinese scale differs from the Western scale, lacking some half notes, the musicians have adapted pieces as different as Mozart's nocturnes and the soundtrack of "The Godfather".
