He is a brilliant pianist but he cannot sightread. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Everyone sightread perfectly, and we strayed away from the polyphony top-40 (Palestrina, Lassus). From Wordnik.com. [Music on the horizons] Reference
(One book, 1983) I was a classics major. (still can't sightread) I acquired fluent Portuguese in Brazil as a boy. From Wordnik.com. [Enciclopedia dantesca, gen. ed. Umberto Bosco, 6 vols (Treccani, 1970-1976)] Reference
I could sightread, score parts in my head if I didn't have an instrument handy, and sight-transpose music I'd never seen before. From Wordnik.com. [Thor's Day] Reference
Starting at the preschool age, kids learned to sing in tune, then sightread and eventually take multipart dictation and compose by, say, 3rd or 4th grade. From Wordnik.com. [Who Composes, 2] Reference
Need straight tone, and ability to blend and sightread. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
I've seen the very first riff, but other than that, it's a sightread. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Wage gap with Australia wider - report] Reference
I also got a true sightread FC on The Takedown, which was pretty badass. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to South Asia businesses and tourism hit by air crisis] Reference
This was sightread, but the part after the solo (almost) caught me off guard. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Music Review: Avenged Sevenfold's 'Nightmare' falls victim to metal sub-genre indecision] Reference
Just got GH: Van Halen yesterday, and "first tried" (can't really call barely anything a sightread since I saw all the charts a few times beforehand) all of the hard songs. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to South Asia businesses and tourism hit by air crisis] Reference
Variously conducted by three composers, trumpeter James McKay, altoist Binker Golding and pianist Peter Edwards, the youthful massive sightread their challenging pad flawlessly and swung with a leisurely grace that would have been astounding a couple of decades ago. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Standard - Home] Reference
I finally got a sightread FC today. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Odisha trade delegation visiting Silicon Valley] Reference
This was sightread, but the part after the solo. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Music Review: Avenged Sevenfold's 'Nightmare' falls victim to metal sub-genre indecision] Reference
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