alto

Example Sentences

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Nurtured by what he later called the “dynamite” music-education programs then available in Cleveland’s public schools, he went on to perform in local youth orchestras while also playing alto in a jazz combo.

From New York Times

The audience falls quiet as Gordafarid’s commanding, raspy alto fills the room with melodic Persian.

From Los Angeles Times

When the alto saxophonist Angélla Christie strode onstage on Friday night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, she was joined only by a piano player.

From New York Times

She remembers opening the windows when the weather got warm, letting the sounds of altos and sopranos and tenors travel down the street.

From Washington Post

That also went for the strings, the Los Angeles Master Chorale’s women’s chorus, the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus and the amber-toned Gerhild Romberger, who sang the short alto solo about human suffering.

From Los Angeles Times