Sight Reader

Here is Golding, shuffling around in his old naval clothes, indulging in amateur dramatics, drinking heavily, forever tempted by glamorous 20-year-olds on American college campuses, and furiously practising the piano, "an inexorable sight-reader". ❋ Unknown (2011)

'Well, as to that, he doesn't what you may call PLAY, but he's the best sight-reader in this district, bar me. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)

Lemoyne (who was a perfectly good sight-reader) begged that he might not be condemned to spoil another's performance. ❋ Henry Blake Fuller (1893)

_Can teach or play violin in musical family; _ sight-reader in classical works. ❋ George William Erskine Russell (1886)

Whiteman demanded a high level of musicianship, and while Beiderbecke sometimes struggled to keep up with the complicated arrangements (he was a mediocre sight-reader), it was in his shined, literally stopping audiences from dancing as they listened to him play. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In later life his fluency as sight-reader and score-reader was much vaunted, and among his recordings is a fine account of his own ❋ Unknown (2010)

She was an exceptionally gifted sight-reader of orchestral scores, impressing Pierre Boulez's famously discriminating ear. ❋ Unknown (2009)

By the end of the second year, I’d become a competent sight-reader of printed music; but once I’d cracked the code, I seldom practiced more than an hour between lessons. ❋ REYNOLDS PRICE (1988)