Word: commandant
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...quality of a dramatic dialogue, alternating the tragic declamation of the solo instrument with the orchestra's solemn thunder. Chan played with technical elan but a rather lifeless tone that occasionally made it hard to distinguish him from the rest of the orchestra. But he was more in command of the languorous Adagio which followed. This exquisite lamentation is less a dialogue than a duet, with the solo instrument soaring and flickering above the yearning orchestral line. Chan chose to be restrained rather than impassioned: his cool and liquid voicing, though played with enormous suppleness and grace, was if anything...
...Music to Goethe's Egmont" opened the second half of the program. It was a work of dark splendor. The jaggedly imperious strings stood in stark contrast to the plaintive radiance of the woodwinds. Saturday's performance had a nobly crafted strength; the orchestra responded to Wilkins's tight command with fervor and conviction...
After announcing that he expected an arms limitation agreement between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to be completed "within a few weeks," Carter toured Strategic Air Command headquarters at Nebraska's Offutt Air Force Base. He saw a command post from which would be launched the nuclear missiles he vowed again last week...
...temporarily fascinated by the vulgar aspects of life but it is the ideas, places and people which command our respect and comfort us that we remember or turn to in our moments of nobility or need...
...that is so, few people have noticed it, least of all Slava. In many ways, he is a changed man. For one thing, he has discovered money. He has learned that big names are marketable. ("His command of English is not flawless," says a colleague, "but numbers he understands.") He now receives $15,000 for a cello recital, and his N.S.O. salary, though not publicly disclosed, runs upwards of $100,000 a year, which puts him into the top ranks, with the likes of Sir Georg Solti. He is generous with his time and talent. Once he flew from...