Sentences with phrase «played as a musician»

Lev, an orphaned shepherd boy, begins a journey of discovery when he's hired to play as a musician before the prophets.

He is entirely self - taught, but insists that every note he ever wrote or played as a musician informs every photograph he has ever taken.

Not exact matches

But, as Daly says, making connections like that is really the goal of any musician — no matter what kind of music they play or what town they call home.

A London church known as The National Musicians» Church is in a row with one of the UK's best - known composers after it said it wouldn't allow choirs and orchestras to play non-Christian music.

She went on to say: «He was a wonderful session musician as well - a lot of people don't know realise that but he could play anything and he could play it really well - so he was just extremely talented.»

is, I suggest, like asking, why teachers have pupils, statesmen citizens, composers musicians to play their compositions, painters canvasses to paint, friendly persons other persons or animal pets to enjoy; or why people want children as well as adults around them.

So as I was writing Out of Sorts, I began to realise how often music played a big part in my story — which is odd because I'm not a musician or a singer or even someone who can carry a tune.

18) The fact that there is a later punk - driven attempt to democratize rock fame (and not in the fatuous way that Andy Warhol's «15 - minutes of fame» comment suggested) or that pop / disco artists like Michael Jackson and Madonna will pick up on Bowie's fame - playing and image - emphatic example, in Madonna's case overtly subordinating the music to the prerogatives of notoriety, do not alter what ALMOST FAMOUS is showing us, that rock can be thought of as a social phenomenon / scene that one might belong to («you're too sweet for rock and roll» is said not by a musician to a musician, but by a groupie to a rock writer), that is as fame - focused as it is music - focused.

Jeff Barnhart, one of the musicians who performed in the service at Spring Glen, described the basic shape of a jazz funeral as follows: «They (the performers) would play an old hymn such as «Just a Closer Walk with Thee» in the procession to the graveside.

Maya Angelou aptly called him «a charismatic speaker who could play an audience as great musicians play instruments.»

Offline, Jason works as a software trainer for electronic medical records and plays drums with another local musician.

As I learn to play it (a focal practice), it engages me with the larger tradition of music and the community of musicians.

Christian journalist Marcia Dixon said: «As a co-founder of the London Community Gospel Choir Bazil has played a key role establishing the UK gospel scene, providing mentorship and opportunities to numerous gospel artists and musicians, and flying the flag for gospel music in general.»

Just as green - grabbing, millionaire musicians are never asked why the masses should give up their meager comforts to save the planet, while they themselves are permitted to grow ever - richer from their energy - hogging concert tours, Tebow could play a brightly - lighted night game every week and take a knee five times a yard to nothing but cheers, if only he embraced this year's anti-establishment, smart, and cool narrative.

The tenor sax made its growlish, snorting sounds, as its musician went up the two, three registers, in tandem with the European concert orchestra, playing live on the radio.

An appearance by holographic Prince would be an ode to the musician's legacy, as well as a tip of the hat to Minneapolis, where the game is being played.

She enjoys camping with her family in their 1985 old - school motor home, listening to her collection of records, swimming, barbequeing, fishing, boating, shooting guns at the firing range, reading, dancing, doing yoga, and playing music (as she is also a musician and actress).

As he features in a stage play dubbed «the ladder», organized by the National Theater and the Nyansapo Productions, as part of celebrations to climax the National Theater Festival, at the National Theatre auditorium in Accra, comedian and actor, who also doubles as a musician and a dancer, Bismark Nii Odoi, once again caught the eyes of his fans, with his amazing natural prowess in comedy, making it uncomfortable without bursting into laughter, seeing him display in every second in every scenAs he features in a stage play dubbed «the ladder», organized by the National Theater and the Nyansapo Productions, as part of celebrations to climax the National Theater Festival, at the National Theatre auditorium in Accra, comedian and actor, who also doubles as a musician and a dancer, Bismark Nii Odoi, once again caught the eyes of his fans, with his amazing natural prowess in comedy, making it uncomfortable without bursting into laughter, seeing him display in every second in every scenas part of celebrations to climax the National Theater Festival, at the National Theatre auditorium in Accra, comedian and actor, who also doubles as a musician and a dancer, Bismark Nii Odoi, once again caught the eyes of his fans, with his amazing natural prowess in comedy, making it uncomfortable without bursting into laughter, seeing him display in every second in every scenas a musician and a dancer, Bismark Nii Odoi, once again caught the eyes of his fans, with his amazing natural prowess in comedy, making it uncomfortable without bursting into laughter, seeing him display in every second in every scene.

This is particularly important for session musicians such as Pat Halling, who played first violin on The Beatles» Eleanor Rigby and All You Need is Love.

Saujani, a Manhattan lawyer who previously worked on Wall Street, has hammered Maloney with fliers that accuse the longtime congresswoman of taking campaign funds from special interests as well as holding a fund - raiser with members of political action committees at an event where musicians James Taylor and Carole King played.

This second stick, controlled via its own motor, uses a microphone and an accelerometer to sense the rhythm Barnes is playing, as well as music from any nearby musicians.

The brains of longtime musicians are transformed by years of practice, much as playing basketball or juggling can rewire the brain.

To compare hearing ability in former musicians to people who never played an instrument, researchers measured the electrical brain activity produced by a type of auditory processing called «neural timing,» which enables people to respond to split - second changes in sound such as the transition from a consonant to a vowel.

As a musician and a DJ I am particularly mindful of the music played in a yoga class.

When not practicing yoga, she dabbles as a musician, playing flute in a local contra - dance band and teaching classical flute lessons to children and adults.

In the middle of the film, Keith (John Legend) explains to Seb, who is a ~ serious musician ~ grudgingly playing for»80s cover bands to make a buck, why being obsessed with classic, 20th - century jazz is holding him back as an artist.

I was married for 14 years, I have 2 daughters (1 living, she is 21, and 1 died when she was a baby, 2 step sons 25 and 22 and 6 grandkids 4 girls and 2 boys.I am still waiting for my big break as a musician but I guess I would still have to be playing to get that.

As he plays the different roles of his life (husband, father, musician, celebrity), he may not necessarily change in huge, obvious ways, but you can't help but see him differently.

Doe has since played a number of memorable supporting roles, often as musicians, in films running the gamut from Pure Country and Wyatt Earp to Georgia and Boogie Nights.

He gets to play things a little bit smoother alongside Michael Fassbender and Maggie Gyllenhaal in director Lenny Abrahamson's forthcoming music odyssey Frank as a fledgling musician who joins an eccentric pop band.

Highbrow music may be complicated, but not nearly as much as the lives of four musicians that play in a string quartet.

It's based on a play by Johan Heldenbergh who stars in the film as Didier, a gentle but irreligious bluegrass musician whose wild wife Elise (Veerle Baetens) is a tattoo artist and singer.

The same can not be said for Johnny Flynn, as the musician who plays her love interest.

Exercising some terrible mock trumpet - playing, Rourke stars as washed - up jazz musician Nate Poole, who finds himself on the wrong side of a grudge with gangster Happy Shannon (Murray).

Timothee Chalamet, hot off his star - making turn in Luca Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name, gets to play an obnoxious pre-hipster as a sulking musician who plays the usual manipulative cards to get what he wants from his female peers and Tracy Letts provides warm support as a tender, job-less father.

The 57 - year - old actor stars once again reprises his role as Harry Hart in the sequel to 2015 film «Kingsman: The Secret Service» and got to appear on screen with the «Rocket Man» musician, who is playing a fictionalised version of himself.

Fassbender plays the titular Frank, with Gyllenhaal as sidekick Clara, and Gleeson as lead Jon, an aspiring musician who joins Frank's band.

Mia (Emma Stone), an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian (Ryan Gosling), a jazz musician, scraps by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to frail the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

Following musician wannabe Jon (Domhnall Gleeson) as he randomly connects with a bizarre pop group called Soronprfbs (don't worry, no one in the film knows how to pronounce it either) playing one random show with them before they quickly adopt him to be their keyboardist and whisk him away to a remote cabin in Ireland to record their album.

In the opening sequence, Stalin (Adrian McLoughlin) telephones a Radio Moscow engineer and requests a recording of the concert that has just been played, forcing the engineer (Paddy Considine) to frantically round up the musicians and a new conductor, as well as a new audience, and perform the concert again.

According to Variety, Dan Aykroyd is currently in talks to headline the film as the mischievous bear Yogi, while musician turned actor Justin Timberlake will play his faithful sidekick Boo - Boo.

Music plays a big role throughout, as each section features an original score composed by a different Canadian musician.

Long hours on the road, sleeping on sofas, eating very little, playing shows for little money; it's a wonder why anyone struggles to make it as a musician.

John Goodman adds some color (as per usual) as Roland Turner, a jazz musician Llewyn meets on the road who might be more obnoxious than he is; Garrett Hedlund makes a brief appearance as Turner's driver, cigarette un-sharing, beat - poet Johnny Five; and F. Murray Abraham plays up the big whig (or as big as they get at this point) Bud Grossman, a potential label representative Llewyn has been eyeing in Chicago, his possible ticket for getting out of all of this mess.

Carmen Ejogo plays a composite of the many women in the musician's life, and her love affair with Baker apparently serves as the heart of the film.

Licht continued to develop as a musician by playing around the world.

An unapologetically absurd thriller, Grand Piano follows Elijah Wood's Tom Selznick, a musician returning to the stage after a lengthy absence, as he's forced to play a difficult concerto by a madman with a sniper rifle.

Jessica Biel and Seth Meyers are having a baby; Sarah Jessica Parker is tracking down her daughter (Abigail Breslin); Josh Duhamel is trying to get to Manhattan to meet an old flame; Zac Efron is carting a homely Michelle Pfeiffer around to help her cross off her resolutions in exchange for party tickets; Hilary Swank is working on getting the ball to drop at Times Square; Halle Barry is a nurse tending to a cancer - stricken Robert De Niro; Ashton Kutcher is trapped in an elevator with Lea Michele, who needs to get to Times Square to perform as a backup singer; and Jon Bon Jovi plays a famous musician trying to rekindle his romance with a caterer played by Katherine Heigl.

Consider too the appearance of an interpreter played by Chiwetel Ejiofor in an uncomfortable echo of his recent role as Solomon Northup in 12 Years a Slave, speaking to the essential problem in American pictures that African - Americans are generally recognized for playing servile (slave / servant), athlete, musician, or criminal — the very roles they're cast into in American society, as it happens.

Ryan Gosling has made a name for himself playing characters who live on the fringes of society: his breakout role as a Nazi - sympathizing Jew in The Believer, a half - baked teacher in Half Nelson, a man in love with a blow - up doll in Lars And The Real Girl, and most recently, a fledgling musician whose temper and lack of ambition prove destructive to his family in Blue Valentine.