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Ancients described the tiny, sweet-singing nightingale as Vox et praeterea nihil (voice and nothing else). For more than half a century that is how it has been, too, with Hector Hugh Munro, the marvelous miniaturist who wrote under the name of Saki. His voices, silly and silky and sometimes tinged with savagery, were familiar and extravagantly praised. One belonged to a popinjay character called Reginald, who discoursed in a series of semiprecious mots: "I hate posterity. It's so fond of having the last word." Another was Clovis Sangrail, a young man much given to the kind...
...York City, in a hall that he rather grandiosely labeled the Indian Gallery. In his own day nobody of any consequence thought of him as a major painter-least of all Catlin himself. Even though he had established himself by the 1820s as a workaday miniaturist-portraitist in Philadelphia, he freely conceded that others were better at what he called "the limited and slavish branch of the arts in which I am wasting my life and substance for a bare living...
Wellington-the living one and no kin -is a stockbroker from Fort Wayne, Ind. As a miniaturist war gamer, meaning one who uses realistic figures, not counters, he is considered one of the hobby's aristocrats. With good reason. All of the 600 or so figures on his table, each about 2 in. tall, were painstakingly hand-painted in the exact regimental colors and insignia of the period. The cost of the miniatures is about $1.75 per man. Wellington meets other armchair generals about three times a year. Object: large-scale wars involving as many as 4,000 figures...
...parent, author of The Green Hat and other best-selling novels of the '20s, who had succumbed to writer's block, deprecation and obscurity. In that poignant volume the son could only compile small sorrows and acts of redemption. However acute, Exiles was the work of a miniaturist. In Passage to Ararat, Arlen set himself a near-Homeric task: the recovery of a forgotten people. To accomplish that mission he has performed a series of brilliancies: his research is irreproachable, his ear infallible. His writing retains a clarity and fury that animates each line. The tribes...
...case of Still, A Bayou Legend reveals him as a kind of American Grieg -a miniaturist gifted with melody, an unerring sense of color and a fondness for the folklore. Although the performers in Jackson were all black, Legend is not especially a black opera, as the composer and his librettist wife Verna Arvey are the first to point...