1.   Each musician took the rehearsal down a slightly different path.

2.   Every season, a dozen or so musicians take advantage of this option, which Lockhart supports.

3.   From Art Tatum to Sonny Rollins, jazz musicians have taken American popular songs into the laboratory of improvisation, proving their staying power as standards.

4.   If history holds at this festival, the relaxed atmosphere will allow musicians to take on ideas that might be out of place in a more formal environment.

5.   Improvisational magic comes when the musician takes the result of his solitary, tedious practicing and exports it back to the stage in his or her own voice.

6.   Musicians are taking on roles that they were never trained for and that were not mentioned in orchestra auditions.

7.   Musicians took summer jobs, taught, played out of town, did nothing.

8.   Some prominent local musicians have taken that attitude to heart, expressing the sentiment that the current museum is far better than no museum at all.

9.   The musicians take risks not just in interpretations but in programming, which is adventurous.

10.   The musicians take seriously their role at the crusade.