Word: effortless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Holding the $6,000 platinum flute long familiar to Philadelphia audiences, he launched into Kent Kennan's Night Soliloquy. Not even the uncertainties of TV sound could obscure Kinkaid's pure, clear and sweet tones, nor his carefully parsed phrasing. As always, Kinkaid's playing seemed effortless, as full of colors and nuances as a first-class singing voice. "No one is indispensable," said a fellow horn player at concert's end. "But Kinkaid...
...brash, unfailingly poised, only rarely lyrical. Above all, Auden's work suggests that there is nothing a poet cannot write poetry about, and most young poets since the early '30s have borrowed his air of verbal freedom. With wit to spare, cleverness sometimes beyond bearing, and effortless technique, he dazzled his contemporaries well before he had anything of lasting value...
...intense performance last week wonderfully illuminated the score's leafy detail, and the orchestra under his baton played with an ardor and mellow tone it rarely displays. As for Contralto Forrester (ably joined by Tenor Richard Lewis), her velvet-piled voice floated over the orchestra with effortless power, adapting itself in a remarkable range of nuances to the work's shadow-flittery moods...
...Greenwich Village. At Frank's suggestion, he was booked into the big time. Stints on Jack Paar's TV show and CBS's freewheeling Keep Talking got him national attention and a chance to be the kind of comedian he likes-a sad-faced funnyman whose effortless humor seems spontaneous but is the product of endless preparation. "People don't guffaw just looking at me," says he. "I have to compensate for that. I read obituary columns. I call hospitals and ask how things are in surgery. Little things that keep me sad. I shy away...