How To Use Performer In A Sentence

Band leader, Ray Blue, is also a composer, arranger and performer on tenor, alto and soprano saxophones.
Thrice a day, the performers have been taking to the stage under the massive fireproof tents, which can accommodate up to 2,500 viewers.
Someone co-ordinated with the radio or TV producers and sponsors, and held a larger vision of the whole than either performer or listener could.
the performers could not be heard over the hissing of the audience
A prepossessing performer with a beautiful baritone, Murray is tall, blond and Midwestern - looking.

Challenge trophies and prize monies are to be awarded to the winners, runners-up and other outstanding performers.
She points out that many high performers in Generation Y roughly speaking, people born between 1975 and 1995 job-hop in order to strengthen their resumes. NPR Topics: News
Present-day performers commonly adopt practices of earlier periods whether or not they use historically accurate instruments.
In this representation, which may be called playing a picture, action, even pantomimical action, was not expected; and all that was required of the performers, was to throw themselves into such a group as might express a marked and striking point of an easily remembered scene, but where the actors are at a pause, and without either speech or motion. Saint Ronan's Well
The star performer of the match was Bill Holland who scored 26 points.
The state has anted up $40 million for salary increases, but, in a program similar to Cincinnati's, Iowa will now evaluate teachers thoroughly to make sure the extra dough goes only to the good classroom performers, not the duds.
The maturity of the voices among the principals was amazing for performers all under 18, over fifty in number.
A great songsmith and a careful performer, despite what he would have us all believe, Gough is not an interesting stadium prospect, especially when the set is 40 minutes long.
His success is catnip to the supermodels, to the performers who wear his designs, and to the superstrata of the fashion media.
Today's pop quiz is in honor of an actress for whom I once had precious little respect and whose casting over any number of other performers got me feeling dischuffed to the point of, if not beyond, churlishness until one day I found myself inexplicably fond of her and ashamed of my earlier thuggish disrespect. Who Goes There - Pop Quiz
A performer in evening dress plays classical selections on the violin.
Now Brazilian stocks are the world's second-best performer after Russia, according to MSCI Barra.
Newcastle Brown Ale is an outstanding performer in the British beer market.
But Stevie is by no means the only disabled performer strutting his stuff at the festival this year.
They have a stadium full of passionate, vociferous supporters whose legendary backing often reduced opposition players from star performers to schoolboy trialists.
In ancient times one regular performer apparently used to swallow stones and then make music by banging on his stomach.
Most lawyers are frustrated writers, actors, comedians or performers of some bent or another.
The paragraph holds luminously good still for either Bobby – Jones or Moore:What we talk about here is not the hero as sportsman, but that something which a civilised community hungered for and found: the best performer in the world who was also hero as human being, the gentle, wholly self-sufficient male. My dream job as Bobby Moore's minder for a fortnight | Frank Keating
Being a great burlesque performer is about showing your body in the most beautiful way - and ballet teaches you that. Times, Sunday Times
He often requires performers to play in unconventional ways or use unusual objects as instruments - in the band, players produce sounds from tuned wine glasses, tam-tams and maracas and use metal thimbles on their strings.
Every step which led him to the summit of power was prefaced by what he called seeking the Lord; that is, attending sermons and prayers, by which the suborned performers of those profane and solemn farces prepared their congregations to desire what their employers had previously determined to do; thus giving an air of divine inspiration to the projects of fraud, murder, and ambition. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel
Keeping the performer at ease is usually entrusted to the agent and concert promoter.
The story was that of a little girl who was born in a well-to-do family and was a top performer in her studies.
The right choice will give inspiration to choreographer and performer alike and add to the pleasure of the audience.
The performer must make spontaneous decisions about what pose to strike and where to freeze the action.
Mascots are some of the most noble, dedicated, and stout-hearted performers.
The music includes a gusli a hammered dulcimer with spoon-shaped sticks, and the performers sing weird, nonsense-ish rhymes. Stravinsky Crashes the Party
Although the costumes were heavy with ornaments, the performers pulled off the choreographed show with style and grace.
Many of the performers had entertained in the services, and their humour was of a different kind from civilian humour. CELEBRATING SECOMBE: A Tribute to Sir Harry Secombe
The young performers were auditioned in groups of eight and sang for 45 seconds for a panel of four judges.
Performer Mark Wahlberg began his public life as a small-time thug, even doing time at one point for the savage beatings of two Vietnamese men.
It revealed the cynical ways in which the "countercultural" music industry was transformed in the 1960s and 1970s by industry executives such as David Geffen and by performers such as Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. Trying to Find The Right Beat
One of the most powerful is a program called Digital Performer for the Power Macintosh.
Outstanding performer though he was beforehand, he raised his game after turning 30.
It is a lively performer, the handling is good with masses of front end grip and the ride is impressive when unladen.
Blackface minstrelsy is now often considered to be antiblack parody, and some of it certainly was, but scholars have recently begun to see the songs of Dan Emmett and many other performers in the genre as expressions of desire for the freedoms they saw in the culture of the slaves. A Renegade History of the United States
His recitals have earned him recognition as a talented performer.
Many of today's performers have had more formal dance training than their predecessors, embellishing the old bump-and-grind with samba, tap, belly dancing, jazz, hula, even capoeira.
Her work innovates ways of perceiving movement and the performer.
The key to this production is the two lead performers.
United are a circus troupe where performers take turns to do their bit. Times, Sunday Times
However, Wang emphasizes that he is essentially an introverted performer.
That is always a good race and this well-bred colt could progress into a top-class performer. The Sun
As a globe-trotting performer, Mu oz manages to pull his stunts in shows some 450 times a year.
Among star performers was the Savoy Hotel where shares soared on the back of speculation that sometime predator Forte group was back.
Tagore seemed to be a wonderful performer, who can invariably wake up the string of my deep heart and make my soul trembling by resonance.
She sewed and chatted with the wardrobe staff in the theater basement and tirelessly ran errands for the performers.
The curriculum is a musical score and the teacher is the performer of work.
Kinnock fils, who is no mean performer on the rugby field, has developed a taste for academe.
In cultural dances, performers may put on feathered hats and skirts made of sisal strands.
A peak performer tries to outdo his last great performance every time he takes the field.
British playwright Noel Coward was natty and flamboyant, a born performer.
But the camp performer always knows that he is being sentimental and enjoys the indulgence.
The star-studded indoor festivities included action star Jackie Chan, Japanese singer Shinji Tanimura, concert pianist Lang Lang and opera star Andrea Bocelli among the 2,300 performers. Incredible Opening Ceremony as China Celebrates the Shanghai World Expo 2010 | Impact Lab
Performers projected into a horn, and the vibrations were directly converted into the wiggles of a groove on the master disc.
The Herald said the condition of the hall was inexcusable given the status of the performer.
He's a performer who is frequently mentioned in the same breath as Mick Jagger.
Edith Bowman reveals why the festival is special to her, and shares handy hints and her pick of this year's performers
Increasingly, ritual performers took greater self-guided responsibility over the enactment of the Dreamings that they owned.
She has the experience of the singer and performer that paula and randy have, she has the producing experience of Simon and Randy, she has the sharp tongue of Simon and the humor of Randy and the niceness of Paula. Archive 2009-01-01
The whole crowd of people were entranced by their music and even some of the performers were stopping in front of them to watch.
Sounds that can be used must be generated as found sound by the composer/performer.
In this case, one's sympathies go out to the performers who have a living to earn.
Their spokespersons morphed into polished television performers overnight.
Authors include composers, performers and professors of technology, musicology, anthropology and science.
That song, “Eli, Eli,” a dramatic arietta, became an immediate favorite and soon became a featured solo by Bertha Kalich and many other female performers of the day, even some in the general entertainment field. Jewish Women and Jewish Music in America.
Our one and only truly world-class performer is the claim. The Sun
Our music-hall performers have invented a kind of clowning peculiar to this country, in which kicking and leaping are also a part of the business. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory
And yet it's also just a part of a pleasurable little scene between two performers intent on topping one another with their jokes and gags.
The music consisted of a band of guitars, from which the performers, common men, and probably self-taught, contrived to draw wonderfully good music, and, in the intervals of dancing, played airs from the Straniera and Puritani. Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
This could involve reaping the gains from some of your better performers or, alternatively, getting rid of some of the chaff that has performed consistently poorly. Times, Sunday Times
(TIM-puh-nee) Italian for kettledrums; the term timpani is often preferred by composers and performers. Timpani
Thespis, of Athens (6th BC) was the first person to speak lines as an individual actor on stage, thus the term “Thespian” to refer to a theatrical performer was born.
Led by acclaimed jazz performer Carol Grimes , the group's genre-defying repertoire ranges from Cole Porter classics to ethnic punk.
She is compelling, spectral, fascinating, an unforgettably unique performer.
The musical theater company is about to launch a new performer on the musical world.
The film is about street dancers joining up with classical performers to become the UK's top dance act. The Sun
She's still a hugely entertaining performer, but now the songs are doing more of the heavy lifting. Times, Sunday Times
Reggae, soca and merengue will all get fired up,’ says the master percussionist, who is considered one of the more charismatic performers in the province.
This was very much in character with her native name Teuila, the adorner of the ugly — so of course this was the point of her verse and at a given moment all the performers displayed the rings upon their fingers. Vailima Letters
She is often maligned as a political performer. Times, Sunday Times
Get up close and personal with some of the world 's most stunning performers. Times, Sunday Times
For the next month the centre will play host to dozens of entertainers and performers.
The actor was considered as a mettlesome dramatic performer.
I can't imagine the French lowering themselves to pay more attention to him than the other street performers on Parisian streets.
There will also be live storytelling by historic costumed performers. Times, Sunday Times
He later bragged that he was the only performer ever to get a complex comic scene right without needing a second take.
Despite the many problems and annoyances, there were some bright spots to CMW, and these mostly came in the form of the performers.
He was singled out as the outstanding performer of the games.
The 1772 ban against female performers on stage created the tradition of the female impersonator (dan) in Beijing Opera.
Of the performances, she acquits herself well in the lead role, but too many of the other performers feel under-used.
This j’ouvert is a relatively recent addition to the Notting Hill Carnival, organised by CD Jam, a small collective of Carnival performers. August « 2008 « Squares of Wheat
A real treat for fans of the show and and its standout performer. The Sun
The text is addressed to all performers, athletes, business people, trial lawyers and anyone else who needs guidance on how to work at their peak performance level.
He's a performer who is frequently mentioned in the same breath as Mick Jagger.
Now I think I watch because I like the off-beat performers and the fact that all those people on the screen, however effectual or self-possessed they may be, may actually be doing something to help other human beings.
The rain came down; there seemed to be only performers, booth owners, security officers and some indefatigable limers left.
It is most important (and many unpractised performers fall down here) to relocate to a simply awful site - at the very least, a desperately uncomfortable sofa but, ideally, under a thin towel on the hard, freezing floor of the bathroom.
Hipparchos patronized performers like Anakreon and Simonides, embellished the herms he set up throughout Attica with gnomic sayings, and added Homeric recitals to the Panathenaia.
The sleeve notes include a short biography of the performers on this recording.
Because he has talked to many performers, he is able to characterize the intense paradoxes of the situation. The Times Literary Supplement
This being correctly guessed to represent "attenuate" (at ten you ate), the other side goes from the room and the previous performers become the audience. Entertainments for Home, Church and School
He's been our standout performer. The Sun
Her long feud with Bette Davis, cherished by drag performers, was certainly camp (“Bette is a survivor,” said Crawford. ‘I Am Joan Crawford’
Of the performers, Eileen Atkins steals the show and gets a nude scene in at just 70 years young.
More than 100 vocal teachers and performers from China's leading conservatoriums of music and art institutes also participated as auditors in the programme.
That Turturro can be convincing both as a Russian chess master and a Mississippi hayseed is a testament to his versatility as a performer.
Over the past decade, he turned a niche-player company into one of the drug industry's top performers - nearly quintupling its market value between 1996 and 2000.
Terry Galloway is a deaf, queer writer and performer, who tours her one-woman shows as a cheap way of seeing the world. Women Among Us: Terry Galloway
Newcastle Brown Ale is an outstanding performer in the British beer market.
People merchandise - television performers merchandise their children.
My notes found most of the tried-and-true performers to have made excessively weedy, leafy wines or overly extracted tannic wines.
The beer was brought him by a _figurant_, or mute performer, in the character of a waiter, charged with the simple duty of drawing the cork from the bottle and filling the glass of the customer. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character
Its first display included daredevil stunts on motorbikes with performers jumping through fire and over each other from ramps, and a trick cyclist jumping over a box of dynamite.
Initiated by the dancer in the center of the trio, the three performers reach their arms out to one another with a mechanical slowness.
Any performers are welcome to share their skills at the open mike session - musicians, dancers, poets, puppeteers, raconteurs and actors.
The resulting album is a pleasant mix of guitars and drums, with electronic sounds, that is headed up by a strong vocal performer.
The performance improvement suggestion derived from best and most improved performers was implementation of an institutional policy for phlebotomists to refuse to perform phlebotomy on a patient without a correct wristband.
He appears to have been the kind of performer who would never knowingly reject an offer of employment or disappoint a paying audience.
Once again, proved himself as a world-class performer. The Sun
If so, have they not been struck with a philological mania, on seeing his picture of the Kutchin-Kutcha Indians dancing; in which the principal performer is actually figuring in the midst of the wild circle in the way described. Notes and Queries, Number 231, April 1, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
These two develop the degree of intense chemistry that only mature actors can muster (and which might make some less experienced performers uncomfortable); their interaction feels entirely unfeigned.
A dissenting justice speculated on the content of the message conveyed by the gyrations of strip-club performers.
Young performers are embracing the challenge of his music with alacrity. Times, Sunday Times
… Blessed with a big voice and stage presence, the heavyset Carter prided herself on her range as a performer, doing musicals and drama as well as comedy.
She was no mean performer on a variety of other instruments.
Moreover, says the performer, that painful experience is what led Shakespeare to become more than a sharp-tongued wit, more than the derivative writers of his era and ours.
Seas, covered with rock-climbing walls and zip lines, torrents of water for surfboarding, multiple theaters (needing reservations), stores and shops by the dozens, aquacade theaters with diving boards and athletic performers, so many activities that there's really no reason for anyone ever to leave the ship - and they hardly will. SFGate: Top News Stories
The best performers will then get to tread the boards in a top show. The Sun
It is a charming piece, and performers and concert-planners should note that it is helpfully and economically scored for an orchestra consisting of just two oboes, two bassoons and strings.
While figure skating involves graceful acrobatic manoeuvres with music in the background, the freestyle performer executes a set of movements tracing a figure on the floor.
The impossibility, however, to find any one of equal excellence as a performer (that is to say, in his more lucid and orderly moments) had forced his reinstalment, and he had now, for the most part, reconciled himself to the narrow sphere of his appointed adagios or allegros. Zanoni
In Edinburgh, we are promised the best of contemporary burlesque and vaudeville performers.
The crowds that gathered at the top of the Royal Mile, and then straggled out, down towards Holyrood, had come for the bands and the performers, but not noticeably to applaud the process they were meant to be celebrating.
He was the star performer at the championships.
In stand-up, you are the booker, the marketer, the promoter, and the performer.
What began as a group of shaggy street performers and itinerant stilt-walkers now commands huge audiences and premium prices in Las Vegas.
Historical facts and local legends are mixed with scares and laughs provided by performers dressed as ghouls. Times, Sunday Times
China Everbright International (Stock Code 257), a principally environ performer, registered rosy yesterday defying the market, looking potential to upthrust further.
As for the company, it went from worst to first in the corporation-the best performer of all.
Mary Daly is a spinner and weaver, a performer, a wicked player throwing her life into the creation of new time.
The Allspeeds drives and controls subsidiary is the only remaining poor performer, but its losses have been stopped.
The comedy circuit on the Fringe has been a trading floor, with television and radio producers buying talent and sprinkling stardust over performers.
In these a hambone was a performer in blackface overacting dialect routines (as in the song, "The Ham-Fat Man"). VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 3
In the evening, the organisers hope to arrange a dinner and cabaret at West Lavington Manor, when some of the performers from the afternoon concert will be singing.
Luckily the performers had enough energy to rouse even this heat-weary crowd, with one dance after another full of high-powered jumps, stomps, shimmies, and kicks.
Dave, who portrays the role of John, is a seasoned and accomplished theatrical performer.
The interplay between the performers is lively and very sharp, from the easy, near-constant physical contact between the twins to the verbal deliveries that switch on a dime from singsongy to snappish. Theater review: 'Tether' by Julie Taiwo Oni
Once the main parts of the figure were completed in felt, an assortment of ribbons, lace trim, rickrack, buttons, sequins and feathers were added to decorate the circus performers.
The words of a haka are either sung by all the performers, or, in some cases, the fugleman leads off for a line or two and the others join in as a kind of chorus, as we have shown.
His sheer originality and overwhelming talent guarantees that there is no other performer like him.
The other circus performers are like family to us, but we all live in self-contained worlds. Times, Sunday Times
In their daily routine, the performers must obey the rules and regulations, and violations can lead to job dismissal.
A performer cycled by with an open beer bottle balanced on his head. Times, Sunday Times
Mostly they have failed, and in the search they have awarded the jersey to a large number of rather feeble performers. Times, Sunday Times
At 52, Moore is still a spry, spunky performer giving all manner of well-rehearsed guitar hero poses.
When performing, her eyes seem to glaze over, creating what seems to be a hypnotic state, both for the performer and the audience.
Hopefully the festival daily paper will one day give longer crits - for the sake of performers as much as anyone.
Both performers do their best work when they have time to launch into the madder bits of the text.
When it comes to genetic flexibility, however, the star performer is quite definitely E. coli.
This reality series captures the exploits and escapades of life on the road with the world's most unusual troupe of performers, The Jim Rose Circus.
Conversely, the ‘performer’ will be able to generate a rough Labanotation score that can be refined by a notator.
Born in Nashville, Cheatham began his career as a burlesque performer.
And the really crushing blow came when the owner of his star performer, Joveworth, removed the horse from the yard.
The truly superior performer is always in short supply. A Conceptual View of Human Resource Management: Strategic Objectives, Environments, Functions
However, this is still a very moving work by a master filmmaker and a performer with skills to match.
He is one of the few truly great, genuinely maverick songwriters and performers of the present day.
Melanie Wilson is such a distinctive performer, melding sound and words to spine-tingling effect. This week's new theatre and dance
She is often maligned as a political performer. Times, Sunday Times
Two of the cast of Nuts CocoNuts have teamed up with former Cubana performers to carry on the company's tradition of anarchic happenings that sit somewhere between fact and fiction, art and real life.
The two-hour work demands almost 500 performers, including five sopranos, eight other soloists, an augmented orchestra and massed choruses (four of them in this new recording).
Here, the initial H is formed by two performers sporting long tunics and distinctive pointed shoes.
Round the side of the theatre, the performers – costumed in sackcloth, their faces smeared with dirt and white stage-paint – form a circle and hold hands, in a surprisingly professional bonding moment before curtain-up. What are all these American high school students doing in Edinburgh?
As to why the clef disappeared, the answer is lengthy, certainly involves the first acceptance of women as public performers, the rise in popularity of the monodic style which de-emphasized middle voices, and makes for a fascinating scholarly debate. A Mezzo-soprano Manifesto
All in all, then, a talented performer with some notable career highs.
The performer's notoriously spiky interviews and awards show interventions have also made headlines around the world.
Martelly, a longtime performer and recording artist with the stage name Sweet Micky, popularized a type of Haitian dance music known as compas. The Seattle Times
The IT sector, down 1.6 percent, was the biggest underperformer, followed by the materials and telecoms.
With a little help from the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, Soong and his stable of performers will be unveiling a soirée at Place des Arts that samples from three major works of yuet kahk.
The excellence of the artists and performers was enhanced by the great food and wine.
He is more than just one of the standout performers. Times, Sunday Times
Young performers are embracing the challenge of his music with alacrity. Times, Sunday Times
A feisty performance threatens to overwhelm some of her co-performers, but in a real test of her ability she plays her part without overshadowing the main leads.
So much of being a performer is about image, press, and how you're received - as well as the preconceptions of others.
Members of the carnival committee scour Europe for the best street performers.
Perhaps due to this, the five feline cat performers are missing from the film's credits. Times, Sunday Times
So when a country with no tradition of musicals found itself needing chorus lines and showstoppers, Lambe was one of a new breed of stage performers capable of answering its call.
When Matsui hears himself characterized as a showman or a performer, he laughs hard and then shakes his head so vigorously it appears his cap might pop off.
At times there are bursts of pure, liquid dance, at others performers are grabbing handfuls of skin and carrying each other around.
Wexall had been too long a court performer to be caught offbalance; he was an actor manqué, but not a failure in measured delivery. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
The star performer of the match was Bill Holland who scored 26 points.
The second half has less framing device, more space for the performers' personalities and is all the better for it. Times, Sunday Times
In it, performers suffering from various disabilities play hidden camera stunts on unsuspecting members of the public. Times, Sunday Times
The _fermata_ or _hold_ [fermata symbol] over a note or chord indicates that the tone is to be prolonged, the duration of the prolongation depending upon the character of the music and the taste of the performer or conductor. Music Notation and Terminology
Top performers are accustomed to being" headhunted "by recruiters. PRWeb

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