Some took part in whole-family jam sessions with brothers, sisters, uncles and aunts taking up instruments.
As for the Met's current "Puritani," rather than taking up instruments, the singers should concentrate on the rudiments of bel canto singing, like staying in tune.
Why? Arguably punk was most important in its influence, encouraging kids in the suburbs to take up instruments, with little or no musical training.
The show, at the Flea Theater, takes Shakespeare's text, truncates it substantially and inserts songs along the way, with the actors taking up instruments — mandolin, clarinet, saxophone and many more — to supplement a core band.
He makes the Eagles a five-piece country band by playing mandolin, allows Leadon to take up instruments heretofore confined to studio overdubs and, by playing occasional rhythm guitar, lets Frey pound the keyboards.
He took up his instruments as a boy.
For the Glass the ensemble's string players took up modern instruments, and its keyboardist traded in his harpsichord for a Yamaha synthesizer.
A drunk quartet of clairvoyants took up their instruments and moved from "Proud Mary" through "Danza Kuduro" to "Knockin' on Heaven's Door".
As the lights dimmed in the Bowlus Fine Arts Center, five black-clad musicians of the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra took up their instruments.
Beastie Boys, "Gratitude" (1992) After the sample-heavy "Paul's Boutique," the Beastie Boys took up their instruments again for "Check Your Head".
