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This is harder to do in a piano trio than in, say, a string quartet, because the piano and strings are a mixed marriage. The piano always threatens to be louder; its attack, sustained tones and tempered pitch all differ from those of bowed instruments. So subtly do the Beaux Arts members adjust for these vagaries that they match the interplay of the score itself, passing phrases seamlessly from one to another, ebbing and flowing naturally with the dynamic pulse. Goethe described architecture as frozen music. A Beaux Arts performance is liquid architecture...
...scrap-metal dealer, Cohen may have had music instilled in him by a grandmother who took him to the Yiddish theater and hummed through all the performances. He studied with Ivan Galamian at Juilliard and refined his chamber music skills during ten years as second violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet...
...Wooden and his U.C.L.A. Bruins would arrive each year carrying an empty suitcase to be used for toting home the trophy and championship banner. From 1963-64 to 1974-75, the likes of Walt Hazzard, Lew Alcindor and Bill Walton won the NCAA title ten times, including a miraculous string of seven straight championships, ending...
...Armstrong orchestrates Sybylla's antics with wit and imagination. Overcoming a dearth of dialogue, Armstrong injects each scene with life and imagination. Sybylla's first dinner with her grandmother is touchingly familiar to any viewer who has ever squirmed in a stiff and formal setting. As Sybylla fumbles with string beans and carrots--served on a silver platter by a butler--Armstrong accurately captures her nervousness and excitement in an intimate and endearing fashion...
...realms of Cambridge and Boston. The 40-member religious group runs Golden Temple Footwear, Golden Temple Restaurant, a carpentry group called Golden Temple Craftsmen, and offers lessons in nutrition, marital counseling, and Kundalini Yoga in their center above Belgian Fudge. They live together in an ashram in Dorchester, a string of four houses, and one of 125 ashrams in America. In the nine years since the ashram's founding they say they have developed a normal and tolerant relationship with their neighbors, who only complain occasionally about their early morning chanting. As one Sikh says, the devotees are "mugged like...