Word: angelically
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...overrode his doctor's and his wife's pleas not to play, was fortified with drugs. Close to fainting at the keyboard, he had to omit the last brief selection on the program, Chopin's Waltz No. 2 in A Flat. Now, in a 2-LP Angel album, record buyers can listen to that last amazing recital and sample the artistry that made Lipatti one of the finest pianists of the postwar generation...
...preferred not to play Beethoven because he felt he was not yet worthy of the music. Along with the big technique and virile style, Lipatti had a remarkable ability, as his teacher Nadia Boulanger noted, to "see better and hear more than we do." In the present, excellent Angel recording, there are few traces of the deadly strain under which Lipatti played. His Bach Partita No. 1 is as coolly articulated and elegant as a jeweled clock, and his Mozart Sonata No. 8 in A Minor (K. 310) seems the reflection of an absorbed and unruffled musical mind. Only...
...federal cabaret tax plainly had something to do with it (instrumental music only, without dancing or floor show, is not considered entertainment under the law, hence is tax-free). The Vanguard's Max Gordon (who also owns a part of Manhattan's still flourishing Blue Angel supper club) blames the shift to the suburbs: "My old customers have been lost to Great Neck." Broadway Producer Richard Kollmar once accused the LP record: "When you had the 78s, you had to get up and change the damned things every few minutes, so you got bored and went...
...painting shows the Virgin kneeling in adoration of the Christ child, who is being held in the arms of an angel. When it first arrived in the U.S. it was a somewhat different painting. It had apparently left Verrocchio's studio with the kneeling Madonna unfinished. About 40 years later, judging by the style, a minor painter completed it. Examination showed that beneath the visible Madonna was the brush drawing of Verrocchio. The overpaint was removed, revealing Verrocchio's original drawing on white gesso...
Both coffees manage to create more than a dozen exotic varities from the basic grinds. Cappucino and Mocha are the most popular at the Capriccio. To make the cappucino, a cinammon stick is mixed in the coffee. Tulla prepares an `"angel's bosom" which is sugared Cuban blend topped with a mound of whipped cream and a maraschino cherry. Neither place has a license to diverge into to inviting mixtures of coffee and rum or whiskey. Cook regrets this and notes, "A lot of good drinks are missed that...