(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.
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(1) Cells (1 x 10(5)) were seeded in 12- x -75-mm tissue culture tubes and incubated with various doses of IL-1 beta, IL-1 alpha, TNF-alpha, and IFN-gamma, alone or in specific combinations, for 15 min, two, 12, 24, and 72 h. PGE concentrations in the media were measured by radio-immunoassay.
(2) If Cory Bernardi wasn’t currently in a period of radio silence as he contemplates his immediate political future he’d be all over this too, mining the Trumpocalypse – or in our domestic context, mining the fertile political fault line where Coalition support intersects with One Nation support.
(3) Radio-immunoprecipitation and partial proteolytic digest mapping showed that the monoclonal antibodies each recognized a unique epitope.
(4) This week MediaGuardian 25, our survey of Britain's most important media companies, covering TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, music and digital, looks at BSkyB.
(5) The New York Times, which shared the files with the Guardian and US National Public Radio, said it did not obtain them from WikiLeaks.
(6) Quotes Justin Timberlake: "Even more importantly customers love it … over 20 million listening on iTunes Radio, listened to over a billion songs.
(7) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
(8) One radio critic described Jacobs' late night Sunday show as a "tidying-up time, a time for wistfulness, melancholy, a recognition that there were once great things and great feelings in this world.
(9) Radio-iron utilization was nearly normal in these patients, only bilateral nephrectomized patients showed a reduced radio-iron utilization.
(10) When [14C]methyl-labelled N,N-dimethylformamide was injected and urine samples investigated by radio thin layer chromatography, the major area of radioactivity corresponded to the Rf of N-(hydroxymethyl)-N-methylformamide.
(11) Heart rates were obtained simultaneously from FM radio transmitters and heart rate monitors externally mounted on unanesthetized and unrestrained mixed-breed goats.
(12) Speaking in the BBC's Radio Theatre, Hall will emphasise the need for a better, simpler BBC, as part of efforts to streamline management.
(13) The night's special award went to armed forces broadcaster, BFBS Radio, while long-standing BBC radio DJ Trevor Nelson received the top prize of the night, the gold award.
(14) The Radio-PAGE and immunoblot typing methods both gave precise identification of Helicobacter pylori strains, but Radio-PAGE was found to give higher resolution and represents a standardised universally applicable fingerprinting method for Helicobacter pylori.
(15) The BBC has reversed its decision to close the Asian Network digital radio station – but will look to cut its budget in half.
(16) The radio-activity of 99mTc of the entire cardiac blood pool including the large vessels (T), the right ventricle including the right atrium (RV) and the left ventricle (LV) was calculated from the 30 degrees anterior oblique cardiac pool scintigram.
(17) And what next for Channel 4's other great digital radio champion, its director of new business and corporate development, Nathalie Schwarz?
(18) In a BBC Radio 4 performance that attempts to underline his status as a normal bloke – although he admits he was too "square" to attract a girlfriend at university – Miliband's luxury item is a weekly chicken tikka masala from his local north London Indian takeaway.
(19) Tipping petrol on a fire isn’t going to get the heat out of it,” he told ABC radio.
(20) The sergeant, listening in, was perplexed: "We obviously have, because I can hear you on the radio.