Sentence examples for major performers from inspiring English sources

American composers complain that major performers won't play their music.

He gave early breaks to Willie Nelson, Roger Miller and other major performers.

'Richard II' The Almeida has a habit of dispatching major performers across the Atlantic.

But there are also major performers appearing in British work this fall.

At various times, he had backed major performers like Sonny Boy Williamson II and Buddy Guy.

But it may be that her residency is part of a trend toward longer and more varied visits by major performers.

Anderson's emergence as a major performer in America in the mid-1930s was carefully orchestrated.

But I'd wager that Ms. LuPone is the only major performer to face the challenge of inhabiting both of these magnificent monsters all but simultaneously.

Despite all this, Mr. Simkin, who is on the short side (5-8 ½, he says) and boyishly slight of build, has often been considered a niche dancer, a nimble star without the gravitas of a major performer.

First, as ripples from the conflict edged closer to Baalbek, near the Syrian border in the Bekaa Valley, security concerns cost the festival a major performer, the soprano Renée Fleming.

(Holland) NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Thursday) It's nice when a major performer plays a new work; it's even nicer when he likes it enough to keep on playing it.