"Soloist" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... something else. We pay our soprano only eight dollars a Sunday, but she always gets ten dollars for singing at funerals. Miss Kronborg has a sympathetic voice, and I think there would be a good deal of demand for her at funerals. Several American churches apply to me for a soloist on such occasions, and I could help her to pick up quite ...
— Song of the Lark • Willa Cather
... marched the twenty-three-verse soloist and the other faithful few, followed by the seven Breeze boys, gay with yellow streamers made from the wrapping of ...
— The Black Creek Stopping-House • Nellie McClung
... and again at their September, 1900, meet by the Stockman band of Colorado, Texas, which has furnished music for the West Texas Fair during their 1899 and 1900 meetings. Mr. Mullin's position in the Stockman band is that of euphonium soloist. He is a proficient performer upon all band instruments from cornet to tuba, including slide trombone, his favourites being the baritone and ...
— The Merry-Go-Round • Carl Van Vechten
... repeat it with the second, and after that it was easy to finish the hymn. A new melody was born—in the presence of more than a thousand pairs of eyes and ears. It was a feat of invention, of memory, of concentration—and such was the elocution of the trained soloist that not a word was lost. He had a tearful audience at the close to reward him; but we can easily ...
— The Story of the Hymns and Tunes • Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth
... was to gain a knowledge of the language, and to perfect herself in singing, so that she might become a soloist in the concerts and oratorios which ...
— Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works • Edward Singleton Holden
... was right when he said that dog was the limit and sold his troupe. He knew. The dog's a dog Caruso. No howling chorus of mutts such as Kingman used to carry around with him, but a real singer, a soloist. No wonder he wouldn't learn tricks. He had his specially all the time. And just to think of it! I as good as gave him away to that dog-killing Wilton Davis. Only he came back.—Johnny, take extra care of him after this. Bring him up to the house this afternoon, and I'll ...
— Michael, Brother of Jerry • Jack London
... verse of this hymn will be sung by the choir alone. The congregation is asked to stand and then to join in the second verse. The fourth verse will be sung by the soloist." ...
— The Captives • Hugh Walpole
... the back seat coming home without a fuss! No, Robbie—you don't fool your Uncle John." And so when there was to be special music at the church, or when any other musical event was expected, John and Bob would get a two-seated buggy, and drive to Minneola and bring the soloist back with them. And there would be dances and parties, and coming from Minneola and going back there would be much singing. "The fox is on the hill, I hear him calling still," was a favourite, but "Come where the lilies bloom" rent the midnight air between the rival towns many times ...
— A Certain Rich Man • William Allen White
... him by his friends and pupils. His fame, owing to such heralds as Efrem Zimbalist, Mischa Elman, Kathleen Parlow, Eddy Brown, Francis MacMillan, and more recently Sascha Heifetz, Toscha Seidel, and Max Rosen, had long since preceded him; and the reception accorded him in this country, as a soloist and one of the greatest exponents and teachers of his instrument, has been one justly due to ...
— Violin Mastery - Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers • Frederick H. Martens
... giving forth a most imperfect version of his or her favorite tune, was at once novel and awe-inspiring. But like all sweet things upon this earth the concert was not of long endurance. It was only a few minutes before the duos ceased utterly to duo and the soloist in the rear fell sound asleep. For several blocks there was a mournful and tell-tale lack of harmony upon the air and then the three young men seemed to have exhausted their mouths and all lapsed into a more or less ...
— The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary • Anne Warner
... Pianoforte Concerto in G Minor given by the Philharmonic Society, New York City, with H. C. Timm as soloist. ...
— Annals of Music in America - A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events • Henry Charles Lahee |
