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The orchestra, which featured many of the Hollywood studios' finest musicians at first-chair posts, loved to play for Jorge.

Laurence Vittes: Clap Between Movements: Plus Where The Dude's At For New Year's Laurence Vittes 2010

The orchestra, which featured many of the Hollywood studios' finest musicians at first-chair posts, loved to play for Jorge.

Laurence Vittes: Clap Between Movements: Plus Where The Dude's At For New Year's Laurence Vittes 2010

You may be a brilliant writer (I think you are) and a brilliant legal mind (I vote for you on that too) but as far as “qualifications” go, when you became a law professor, you were barely qualified to first-chair a motion, let alone teach others how to be a lawyer.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Baucus Scandal 2009

All of its systems, organs, muscles, cells, fluids, hormones, and chemicals play different instruments, make different sounds your intestines have dibs on first-chair tuba, and produce different results depending on how you use them.

You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009

All of its systems, organs, muscles, cells, fluids, hormones, and chemicals play different instruments, make different sounds your intestines have dibs on first-chair tuba, and produce different results depending on how you use them.

You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009

All of its systems, organs, muscles, cells, fluids, hormones, and chemicals play different instruments, make different sounds your intestines have dibs on first-chair tuba, and produce different results depending on how you use them.

You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009

As captain of the junior-varsity volleyball team, first-chair flute in the school orchestra, a top player on the tennis team and an honors student with three hours of homework a night, Andrea Galambos, who was also taking singing and art classes after school, put in 18-hour days.

STOP STRESSING ME 2008

He played first-chair saxophone in the Just Like High band.

Mike Bonifer: Just Like High School 2008

Two years later I was good enough to study with the first-chair cellist of the Chicago Women's Symphony Orchestra.

My Turn: Music This Beautiful Is Something To Share 2007

Their first-chair soloists actually formed a string quartet back in the early '90s and made one of the best-ever recordings of Haydn Quartets; I wish Harmonia Mundi, which records this orchestra almost exclusively, would make some recordings with the quartet.

Wolfgang! Jaime J. Weinman 2007