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musician

[myoo-zish-uhn] / mjuˈzɪʃ ən /


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You’re still having to learn a vast repertoire of another band and accommodate your style as a working professional and acclaimed musician of many years into someone else’s.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

The prolific musician received five Oscar nominations for his film scores, including those for The Remains of the Day and Cry Freedom.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Consider Bette Davis, playing Christine, a woman forced to kill her former lover, who has made a jealous plan to sabotage Christine’s husband, a musician, on the night of a concert.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

The musician celebrated four years of being sober over the summer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

At home, I continued to work on my own progress as a musician.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

But the musicians in front of you are not the humans who originated the music, and that matters because the energy is not the same.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

Bar Bayeux—a long, narrow club in Brooklyn, N.Y., that names cocktails for revered jazz musicians such as Herbie Nichols and Shirley Horn and frequently hosts first-rate bands—was packed one mid-September Saturday night.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

“Hey,” Densmore told the musicians he played with that day, “maybe I can do something here.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

If anything, adversity seems only to have fortified these musicians, which may in part account for Mr. Noseda’s decision in March 2025 to renew his contract with the NSO through 2030-31, its centennial season.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Together, the musical instruments suggest that there might well have been a band of musicians aboard the Mary Rose.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler




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