Word: instrumentalist
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...section features Botticelli's famous Portrait of Man with Medal of Cosimo the Elder and his Profile of a Young Woman, a virtually unknown work from a private collection in New York. It also boasts Filippino's naturalistic Portrait of a Musician, an intense and pensive study of an instrumentalist surrounded by the paraphernalia of his art. One of the most interesting sections of the exhibition examines the influence on the artists of Savonarola, the apocalyptic preacher of the 1490s who organized the Bonfires of the Vanities, in which many famous Renaissance works of art were destroyed. It features Botticelli...
...trio emerged one-by-one, first drummer Julian Gross and then multi-instrumentalist Aaron Hemphill. Then there was a moment of expectation for the third member of the trio, until the audience noticed a hulking figure lurking in shadows along the wall stage right, poised to burst on stage—the six-and-a-half feet of Angus Andrew, dwarfing the microphone he grunted into, incomprehensibly Australian in voice, playfully clad in a tight black shirt with a gold sequined tiger pawing over his shoulders...
...group tried their songs out on actual human fans--a big step for them--and discovered that market testing music had its advantages. "Playing live just sort of reminds you that the recording process is artificial," says Jonny Greenwood, Colin's younger brother and Radiohead's resident multi-instrumentalist. "However quickly you record, the process elongates time. Obviously in a concert you never forget the length of a song. You always hear it in its entirety, and you know when it's boring or indulgent...
That was only the beginning. In 1990, two years after she quit Smith Barney, Brown landed a record contract with Vanguard. A year later, soon after the release of her first solo album, Brown became the first and only woman ever named the International Bluegrass Music Association Instrumentalist of the Year...
Vadim is a virtuoso instrumentalist who works the turntable with a confidence and skill comparable to any musical maestro. In execution, his music maintains its own integrity without recognizing the traditional boundaries of genre...