"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
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