recital
noun
a musical entertainment given usually by a single performer or by a performer and one or more accompanists.
recitalist
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a word derived from
recital.
Example Sentences
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While the main hall’s scale can be daunting for a solo recitalist, with almost 3,000 people watching, on March 13 he seemed calmly at home from the start.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
Whenever she came back to the United States thereafter, it was almost always as a recitalist — and a very fine one, at that.
From Washington Post ● May 16, 2022
But Anderson had a long international career as a concert recitalist with a voice of astonishing warmth and grandeur that conductor Arturo Toscanini said “one is privileged to hear only once in a 100 years.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2021
Ms. Peters’s care with her voice allowed her to sing well into her later years on the opera stage, as a recitalist and in musicals.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2017
Also a thoughtful recitalist, Ms. Coote appears at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall in an enticing program of 19th- and 20th-century French songs by Poulenc, Fauré, Berlioz, Hahn and others.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2014
