Word: virtuosos
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Smith and Cinelu anchor a dynamic rhythm section which literally picks up the band and moves it along. But Cinelu is a born show-stopper. He not only played over a dozen percussion instruments, but he warmed up the crowd with a conga solo, and gave a virtuoso performance on the udu, an instrument which resembles a jar. Keyboardist Delmar Brown complements Kirkland's jazz piano with a funky Caribbean sound. Campbell was simply electric, and Marsalis was, well, just Marsalis, which means excellent...
...become a virtuoso performer on keyboards as well as on guitar, as "Fragile" was a musical highlight. Even when he even made a mistake in one measure, he built the next sequence of notes around the errant sound...
Clearly, an artist of temperament lurks beneath Feltsman's restrained exterior, but just how much, or what kind of, temperament is still unclear. Now that the man has replaced the symbol, Feltsman needs to prove he has the virtuoso's fire in his belly...
...other moments, such as in the exquisitely mysterious second movement, the effect is more lulling, and meditative. The last movement opens with a fanfare of rolling major arpeggios, and seems best of all suited to the composer's bold themes and unabashed fondness for virtuoso showmanship...
Didion is a virtuoso of the moods of violence and intrigue, but the complexity of public subjects frequently causes her chiseled prose to shift into the arabesque line that runs from Tocqueville to Murray Kempton. "I never passed through security for a flight to Miami," she writes early in her new book, "without experiencing a certain weightlessness, the heightened wariness of having left the developed world for a more fluid atmosphere, one in which the native distrust of extreme possibilities that tended to ground the temperate United States in an obeisance to democratic institutions seemed rooted, if at all, only...