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Pianist


Definition:

  • (n.) A performer, esp. a skilled performer, on the piano.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Subjects were right- or left-handed, males or females in experiments I and right-handed female typists, pianists, or controls in experiment II.
  • (2) I'm sure Evan wouldn't mind me saying that he makes no secret of an occasional discomfort about conventional chord-change playing in jazz, and tends to sit out occasions where it's required, as he did last year in London on a gig in which the pianist Django Bates was reworking Charlie Parker tunes.
  • (3) The grouping structure, which prescribes the location of major tempo changes, and the parabolic timing function, which represents a natural manner of executing such changes, seem to be the two major constraints under which pianists are operating.
  • (4) He might not be the hard-drinking rockstar of old but classically-trained pianist James Blake proved that cerebral compositions on a keyboard are no barrier to success after he was crowned winner of the coveted Barclaycard Mercury prize .
  • (5) Over the years he has played with famous musicians including John Williams, Robert Mitchell and Jools Holland, and been asked to jam with Ruben Gonzalez, the Cuban pianist who was a member of the Buena Vista Social Club.
  • (6) Alan M Dershowitz, who has represented heiress Patty Hearst and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, is asking to represent the 81-year-old director of Chinatown and The Pianist in the Los Angeles county superior court.
  • (7) The new piece, Piano for Children, is scored for strings and John Constable, the Sinfonietta's star pianist.
  • (8) In a rare interview with Vanity Fair, the Oscar-winning director of Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown and The Pianist said the arrest hit him harder than any incident since the murder of his wife Sharon Tate by the Manson family in 1969, as well as the subsequent media circus that followed.
  • (9) Worried that the song was too short, Gabler asked pianist Sonny White to improvise a suitably stealthy introduction.
  • (10) She reads: “The look in his eyes was as much as we could take…” Pollock sighs: “Oh, that’s really desperate.” There was also the case of 10-year-old Curtis Elton, a talented pianist whose hands have been insured.
  • (11) I keep it at home in Atlanta,” the composer-pianist says, though the notion of home elicits an audible sigh.
  • (12) Since then, Polanski, a dual French and Polish citizen, has lived and worked in France and Switzerland and elsewhere, and accepted his 2002 best director Academy Award for The Pianist via satellite.
  • (13) Sonny Rollins, the original headliner, has had to pull out for health reasons, but the 10-day event comfortably maintains its world-class, star-packed stature with artists including the legendary saxophonist Wayne Shorter with the BBC Concert Orchestra, pianist Brad Mehldau playing a rare synthesiser show, guitarist John McLaughlin and percussionist Zakir Hussain celebrating the pioneering east-west Shakti group, composer Carla Bley in a trio with bassist Steve Swallow and Britain's Andy Sheppard, and dozens more international stars, creative locals and newcomers appearing all over the city.
  • (14) Polanski's film credits include Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown and the Oscar-winning Holocaust drama The Pianist.
  • (15) In the first experiment, pianists and control subjects were given sequential tactile stimuli and were asked to report the simulated fingers and the order.
  • (16) 1990s: Colors, with Joachim Kuhn Facebook Twitter Pinterest From 1958 – when Coleman briefly played on the West Coast in Paul Bley’s Hillcrest Club band – to the mid-90s, the saxophonist steered clear of pianists.
  • (17) Dotted among Dilla's compositions are two pieces by minimalist French pianist and phonometrician (someone who measures sounds), Erik Satie.
  • (18) Like many occupying music's avant-garde edges, Sharp has a lot of time for the visionaries - people like Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and Sergey Kuryokhin, the Russian jazz pianist who, until his death in 1996, led the band Pop Mechanica.
  • (19) The fact that the man concerned carries a French passport and was responsible for Cul-de-Sac, Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown , The Tenant, Tess and The Pianist might also have something to do with it.
  • (20) The author, a professional flutist and psychologist, interviewed four pianists noted for their sight-reading abilities.

Player


Definition:

  • (n.) One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.
  • (n.) One who plays any game.
  • (n.) A dramatic actor.
  • (n.) One who plays on an instrument of music.
  • (n.) A gamester; a gambler.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
  • (2) As players, we want what's right, and we feel like no one in his family should be able to own the team.” The NBA has also said that Shelly Sterling should not remain as owner.
  • (3) The playing fields on which all those players began their journeys have been underfunded for years and are now facing a renewed crisis because of cuts to local authority budgets.
  • (4) A man named Moreno Facebook Twitter Pinterest Italy's players give chase to an inscrutable Byron Moreno, whose relationship with the country was only just beginning.
  • (5) The former Stoke City manager Pulis had reportedly been left frustrated by the club failing to push through deals for various players he targeted to strengthen the Palace squad.
  • (6) DATA Modern football data analysis has its origins in a video-based system that used computer vision algorithms to automatically track players.
  • (7) Of course they should play if the players still want to.
  • (8) The others were two Britons, Mark Cox and John Barrett (now both BBC commentators) and the US player Jim McManus.
  • (9) But still we have to fight for health benefits, we have to jump through loops … Why doesn’t the NFL offer free healthcare for life, especially for those suffering from brain injury?” The commissioner, however, was quick to remind Davis that benefits are agreed as part of the collective bargaining process held between the league and the players’ union, and said that they had been extended during the most recent round of negotiations.
  • (10) Huth, a Stoke player for more than five years, has made only one Premier League appearance since suffering a knee injury in November 2013.
  • (11) He is a leader and helps manage the defence, while Pablo Armero can be a bit of a loose cannon but he is certainly a talented player.
  • (12) Uruguay's coach, Oscar Tabárez, had insisted yesterday that his player should face only a one-match ban.
  • (13) The spirit is great here, the players work very hard, we kept the belief when we were in third place and now we are here.
  • (14) He said he was appalled by the player's accusations and plans to meet with Martin on Wednesday at an undisclosed location.
  • (15) This may have been a pointed substitute programme, management perhaps imagining a future where electronic presenters will simply download their minds to MP3-players.
  • (16) Nwakali, an attacking midfielder, was the player of the Under-17 World Cup in Chile last year, which Nigeria won, and at which his team-mate Chukwueze, a winger, also impressed.
  • (17) Twellman has steadily grown in confidence as he settles into his role, though whether as a player or as an advocate he was never shy about voicing his opinions.
  • (18) "I have to say that I have been a Chelsea player since 2004 and I have never had six minutes in my favour when I was losing.
  • (19) I would like to see much more of that money go down to the grassroots.” The Premier League argues that its focus must remain on investing in the best players and facilities and claims it invests more in so-called “good causes” than any other football league.
  • (20) It’s not just that Lester was one of the first signs that the Red Sox’s commitment to players from their own system was starting to pay off.

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