Is this simply a personal paranoia that does disservice to a soprano's splendid voice and good instrumental playing?

The instrumental playing was individually skilled but collectively loose.

The Commission welcomes the much improved standard of instrumental playing which is one of the schools' greatest recent success stories.

Unlike most choral concerts, the quality of the instrumental playing seemed paramount.

In international musical life, it is growing hard to distinguish between one national school of instrumental playing and another.

The scat is the alter ego of instrumental playing.

Music was also important, both singing and instrumental playing; the community had a trombone choir.

The elegant choral textures and solid-sounding instrumental playing made its way through a slight haze of echo.

Melodic instrumental playing is confined to preludes, interludes and postludes.

"My orientation puts the voice in the center of musical expression," he said, including instrumental playing.