principal player
Example Sentences
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Elayne Jones: The timpanist Elayne Jones, who was said to be the first Black principal player in a major American orchestra when she joined the San Francisco Symphony in 1972, died on Saturday.
From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2022
Still, it’s a hell of a what if, one made all the more intriguing by its principal player.
From Slate • Feb. 1, 2018
My father excelled as a musician and was admitted to the People’s Liberation Army Air Force, where he was a principal player in the orchestra.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2016
She was a principal player in the brief history of the Mormon Church.
From Salon • Apr. 20, 2014
The other principal player in the emergence of tectonics theory, Harry Hess, was also at Princeton at the time, and would spend the rest of his career there.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
