Word: effortless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...veteran. He gave the audience a confident smile, then signaled Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos to launch the New York Philharmonic-Symphony into the Paganini Concerto No. 1. From his first bow strokes, 15-year-old Michael Rabin proved he had something to be confident about. His technique was effortless, his tone strong and clean, his style and phrasing in the brilliant manner of Heifetz and Isaac Stern...
...proved to his hearers that the rating was deserved. He warmed up with Mozart's Sonata in B Flat Major (K.454), concluded the first half of the program with a faultless performance of Prokofiev's poetic Sonata in B Flat. Oistrakh conquered the most difficult passages with effortless technique, played with such feeling and clarity that the audience cheered him back for six curtain calls...
Even the singing is occasionally marred by poor dubbing-a surprising lapse in MGM's usual technical proficiency-and by pointless attempts to make Tenor Lanza look effortless while performing arias that ordinarily require opera singers to flex every muscle. But Lanza is in fine voice, and with such artists as the Met's Soprano Dorothy Kirsten and Mezzo-Soprano Blanche Thebom, he sings varied favorites by 13 composers from Verdi to Victor Herbert. On the program: La Donna E Mobile and the Quartet from Rigoletto; Vesti la Giubba from I Pagliacci; the Sextette from Lucia De Lammermoor...
Yale's razor-sharp freshman basketball team ran all around the Yardling quintet Saturday to rack up an effortless 65 to 47 win. Demcak hooked in 22 points. HARVARD (47) G F P Condon, g 1 0 2 Dennis (C), g 9 9 27 Blodnick, c 1 1 3 Culver 1 0 2 Gremp, f 1 0 2 Parente 2 0 4 Krinsky, f 2 0 4 Steiner 0 3 3 Totals...
Miller's drama is one of constant transition, and a great deal of the success of these progressions depends on the supporting cast. In every case the transitions were effortless and inevitable--a fine tribute to the direction of Elia Kazan, the acting of the company, and the technical excellence of Miller's script. Jo Mielziner's setting and lighting play an integral part in the action...