Before Black Flag disbanded in August 1986, Rollins had already toured as a solo spoken word artist.
And Mr. Ma's gorgeous -- sometimes almost weeping -- cello solos speak to the tragic elements.
Monk has been criticized for concentrating on older material during this period, but the ingenious and playful Monk and Rouse solos speak for themselves.
(The ringing sound that emanates from the admiring strokes given the Green Destiny emphasizes the toll of the violence.) And Mr. Ma's gorgeous -- sometimes almost weeping -- cello solos speak to the tragic elements.
Then, in a meditative sequence, dancers performed solos while speaking of personal and family problems.
Bach's solo works speak to modern players and listeners as a sort of gold standard, or even holy grail – precious scriptures where unique insight and revelation lie.
The fact that Ms. Cook will make her Metropolitan Opera solo concert debut this evening, and that the occasion is the first time in the company's 123-year history that it has presented a female pop singer in solo concert, speaks for itself.
In fact, when Marta Renzi tried to cross this illusory gap in her 1979 solo "Wrinkle" by speaking to the audience as she danced, she had to work to get anyone to talk back.
He was interrupted by a guttural sound, and then the crowd parted: in their midst, a man had started to dance — a fierce, martial, punishing abstract solo — and was speaking the words to the song "Be Careful, It's My Heart".
Mr. Carter explores the quartet's palette with a striking efficiency: Each of the four lines is built on its own set of intervals and speaks in a distinct accent, and as the work unfolds, competing solo lines, all speaking at once, melt into dialogues and integrated ensembles, then go their separate ways in the finale.
Entirely at the musicians' mercy, we're powerless against drum solos and spoken word interludes.
