Sentence examples for pianist fly from inspiring English sources

Watching D.J. Qbert, a leading hip-hop musician from the San Francisco Bay Area, manipulate two turntables with one hand and a sound mixer known as a fader with the other to create a sizzling polyrhythmic landscape of sound effects is not unlike watching the fingers of a great jazz or concert pianist fly across the keyboard.

John Eaton, an American pianist, is flying in from Washington to play "The Star-Spangled Banner".

By S. J. Perelman The New Yorker, December 23 , 1974P. 32 Reaction to "Variety" review of Liberace's new act in Las Vegas; the pianist exits by flying offstage, suspended by wires.

In the nineteenth century, virtuoso piano recitals were heavily improvisational performances in which the pianist, his hair flying and his cravat wilting, seemed to call forth his very soul.

He is a concert pianist with a passion for flying which developed while stationed in Vietnam.

"And...They're Off" (1997), played by Da Capo's violinist, Curtis Macomber, and its current pianist, Blair McMillen, alongside the guest cellist Jeremiah Campbell, flew by in washes of 16th notes, alternately quivering and flowing.

Peralta's recent output has ranged from collaborations on Flying Lotus Brainfeeder Recordss imprint, including the pianist's 2011 album "Endless Planets," and session work for artists including Erykah Badu and the Cinematic Orchestra.

Instead he is covering the costs -- everything from hall rentals to flying the pianists to New York and putting them up -- himself.

The jazz pianist Marilyn Lerner backs the singer David Wall, of the Flying Bulgars, in their new songs based on 20th-century Yiddish poems.

He was a close friend of the pianist Oscar Peterson, and when Peterson suffered a bad stroke, Garcia flew from New Zealand to see him in Toronto.

Why has the 53-year-old pianist agreed to donate his efforts to the conservatory, even flying from his home in San Francisco for the performance?