| Jennie Tourel, one of the smartest, most musicianly singers of our time, delivers a passionate account. |
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| In strict musicianly terms, this would be my album of the year without a shadow of doubt. |
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| Holland pursues an old-time Americana sound, without the academic self-consciousness or the intrusive musicianly flair that often soils such endeavours. |
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| For all his pianistic skills and musicianly refinement, he can be an idiosyncratic interpreter. |
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| More than 40 songs breezed by in the concert, nearly every one packing musicianly marvels into its two or three minutes. |
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| It was also at this point, when compositional procedures reached a degree of stability and universality unmatched since Renaissance polyphony, that composition began to be taken seriously as a separate musicianly discipline. |
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| Lavish with musicianly details, the songs can linger over vocal harmonies, dart ahead as briskly strummed folk-rock, drift into psychedelic pastorales, build elegant chamber-pop interludes or find a haunted solitude. |
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| The company still fields in prima roles a number of women who dance as twinkle-toed soubrettes, devoid of adult decisiveness, musicianly phrasing or linear beauty. |
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| Sometimes he plays off-mic to let others take the sonic lead, an effective and musicianly gesture. |
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| The measured tone of veiled disappointment in Stanford's judgement evidently reflected an abiding chilliness in the musicianly establishment. |
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| Few pianists play the instrument so beautifully, so lovingly, so musicianly in manner, and with such regard for its real nature and its enormous literature. |
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| Sheena's musicianly approach and her warm personality communicated directly with this audience, many of whom, one felt, were at their first-ever jazz concert. |
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| But I think not, because these four Russians, an accordionist and three balalaika players were so virtuosic and musicianly that I am sure he would have been writing for them. |
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| The sound was and, fortunately still is, pure and clean and musicianly. |
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| Adrianne Pieczonka was the very musicianly, drably costumed Amelia. |
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