Entertainers

recorder player
someone who plays the recorder
 
yodeller
a singer who changes register rapidly (popular is Swiss folk songs)
 
William Byrd
English organist and composer of church music; master of 16th century polyphony; was granted a monopoly in music printing with Thomas Tallis (1543-1623)
 
Rudolf Serkin
United States concert pianist (born in Czechoslovakia) (1903-1991)
 
Glenda Jackson
English film actress who later became a member of British Parliament (born in 1936)
 
Joan Crawford
United States film actress (1908-1977)
 
Savoyard
a person who performs in the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan
 
drum majorette
a female baton twirler who accompanies a marching band
 
Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson
Australian actor (born in the United States in 1956)
 
John Dowland
English lutenist and composer of songs for the lute (1563-1626)
 
Renata Tebaldi
Italian operatic soprano (born in 1922)
 
Dame Sybil Thorndike
English actress (1882-1976)
 
Pearl Mae Bailey
United States singer (1918-1990)
 
warbler
a singer; usually a singer who adds embellishments to the song
 
Lynn Fontanne
United States actress (born in England) who married Alfred Lunt and performed with him in many plays (1887-1983)
 
vibraphonist
a musician who plays the vibraphone
 
Anna Amalia Mercouri
Greek film actress (1925-1994)
 
bell ringer
someone who plays musical handbells
 
Katherine Cornell
United States actress noted for her performances in Broadway plays (1893-1974)
 
Decimus Junius Juvenalis
Roman satirist who denounced the vice and folly of Roman society during the reign of the emperor Domitian (60-140)
 
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