It's their loss, for the event, as Ms. Giesek suggested, attracts first-rate musicians.

But for the few who have it, if they are also first-rate musicians, some rather phenomenal feats are possible.

She always appeared with first-rate musicians, including the drummer Grady Tate.

The purpose is to train first-rate musicians, and all the necessary resources are made available to students and teachers with this end in mind.

The program was more about the works than the performances, but an assembly of first-rate musicians brought these pieces to life.

But it is compelling in its way, representative of a first-rate creative musician, beyond category".

It is hard not to feel sorry for the first-rate professional musicians of the American Symphony Orchestra.

And it follows that, apart from the merely mechanical operation of playing, he is a first-rate musician.

Mr. Richman, furthermore, had the wisdom to hire a collection of about 20 first-rate period-instrument musicians.

All the first-rate musicians who have triumphed in the opera house have been skillful mountebanks as well.