Sentence examples for soloist performance from inspiring English sources

In "Walpurgisnacht," Sara Mearns gives a major soloist performance in a role that requires prima ballerina technique.

The Texas Tech Trombone Choir and combined choirs lead the crowd in singing carols and the illumination ceremony culminates with a soloist performance of "O Holy Night", in the Science Quadrangle.

The company was splendid in "Chopiniana" (the ballet that Westerners call "Les Sylphides"), as it has always been, but that piece is a matter of soloist performances; it has no one female lead.

In addition to the soloist performances, members of the Pennsylvania Ballet were cast as the corps de ballet, backdrop for the main actors' performances.

With the young Georgian-born violinist Elisabeth Batiashvili as soloist, the performance of the Prokofiev concerto was impressive overall.

Of course with the brilliant young Anthony McGill, a principal clarinetist at the Met, as soloist, the performance was a sure thing.

Die Seejungfrau was preceded by Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto, with Marc-André Hamelin as soloist, a performance that didn't quite scale the heights one perhaps expected.

He wrote it for the great German violinist Willy Burmester, but an ultimatum from the bank manager made Sibelius programme it prematurely; Burmester not being free, it was given to another soloist whose performance was a disaster.

Christoph Eschenbach conducted a program that began with a radiant account of Ernst Toch's "Dedication" for strings, followed by the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the electrifying young Maxim Vengerov as soloist; his performance deftly balanced Mozartean lightness with Romantic-era richness.

Watts had perfected her art in British choral societies, appearing as a chorister and then soloist in performances.

The superb baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky is the soloist in performances of Mahler's "Songs of a Wayfarer" and Ravel's "Don Quichotte à Dulcinée," on a program that includes Beethoven's Seventh Symphony and Strauss's Oboe Concerto, with Elaine Douvas as soloist.