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...first-class performance of glove-puppet pantomime. Avner Barayev, a virtuoso with the tambourine-like doira, gave a spirited demonstration, beating a pair of them against his knees and spinning them on his fingertips, and kept his rhythms tapping for ten minutes at a time...
Crazy and Cool (Victor LP). An anthology of bop that contains minor frenzies by Dizzie Gillespie, Charlie Parker, the Metronome All Stars, and a strangely old-fashioned item by Gene Krupa's band. Worth the price of admission: 30 startling seconds by Charlie Ventura's virtuoso vocalists...
...clubs, and for sheer weight of tone it surpassed them both. The loud passages rang out with amplitude pushed to the point of stridency. This was a marked contrast to the sensuous Harvard sound and certainly far removed from Princeton's pale efforts. But the Finns' precise phrasing, virtuoso soloists, and energetic sound roused the audience to the heartiest applause of the evening...
...Series. The Quintet is composed of members of the Philadelphia Orchestra; four of them are the solo players in their respective sections. This ensemble represents a tradition which is one of the most significant and unique features of the contemporary musical scene. Perhaps the central innovation of the modern virtuoso orchestra is the phenomenally increased importance of the woodwinds. Certain mechanical improvements in some of the woodwinds during the past century have helped to bring about this movement; more important, the new spectrum of orchestral color introduced by such 19th century figures as Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, and Berlioz and developed...
...instrument) and the avoidance of a "pecking" staccato; the richness and homogeneity of the blended tone not only of all five instruments but also of the many other combinations possible all these brought to mind the tradition, now taken for granted, which forms one of the bases of the virtuoso symphony orchestra in this country...