Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who performs a solo.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In music, a performer of solos, vocal or instrumental. Also
solist .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) One who sings or plays a solo.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
performs asolo .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a musician who performs a solo
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Examples
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The soloist is piano great Martha Argerich who is on a rare tour of the West Coast, which I saw on Friday.
Pump it Up 2009
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She gets signed up for Amateur Night as a sentimental soprano soloist, is propelled on stage, moves her lips as the crowd makes noise, sways her body as if actually singing, then exits.
“. . .all his race rose up before him in a mighty phantasmagoria. . .” 2008
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I don’t have the violin soloist going – YET – but in the meantime I have some lovely, sombre chamber music rolling on 8-track in the background.
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Still a first soloist, which is two ranks below the top category of principal, Mr. Vasiliev is a man of short stature, big muscles, bright eyes, a winning smile, and a mop of curly, brown hair.
Those Mighty Men in Tights Robert Greskovic 2010
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Still a first soloist, which is two ranks below the top category of principal, Mr. Vasiliev is a man of short stature, big muscles, bright eyes, a winning smile, and a mop of curly, brown hair.
Those Mighty Men in Tights Robert Greskovic 2010
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As part of our continuing mollification of superannuated subscribers, this week's concerts will feature a big-name soloist playing a very old piece while the rest of the musicians phone it in.
Listener discretion advised Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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As part of our continuing mollification of superannuated subscribers, this week's concerts will feature a big-name soloist playing a very old piece while the rest of the musicians phone it in.
Archive 2008-06-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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The soloist was the 32-year-old Canadian violinist Leila Josefowicz who has been specializing in playing the music of living composers, which got her a Macarthur Foundation "genius" award last year.
Classical Gas sfmike 2009
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The soloist was the 32-year-old Canadian violinist Leila Josefowicz who has been specializing in playing the music of living composers, which got her a Macarthur Foundation "genius" award last year.
Archive 2009-04-01 sfmike 2009
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This time the soloist was a 19-year-old French girl named Lisa de la Salle, who has started recording for the aptly named "Naive" label.
Old Lady Matinee at the Symphony sfmike 2007
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