Word: virtuosos
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...like the finest gold, with especially choice nuggets among the horns. And there are the woodwinds, blending their highly distinctive sounds together like expert chamber musicians. In concert, the Berlin Philharmonic becomes a single instrument, devised by a craftsman on the order of a Stradivarius, played by a consummate virtuoso...
DIED. Glenn Gould, 50, eccentric, commanding piano virtuoso celebrated for his interpretations of Bach, and one of the first classical performers to concentrate on the LP recording as an art form; of a stroke; in Toronto. A Canadian-born Wunderkind who was playing the piano at 3 and composing at 5, Gould won critical acclaim as a young man for performances that pulsed with rhythmic dynamism and exuberance while retaining clarity and subtlety. He was almost as famous for such oddball habits as wearing gloves, scarf and overcoat in summer. Gould ended his concert career in 1964, concentrating after that...
...mean much, but a flash of perfection does something to the spirit that is worthwhile. People don't watch sport just to pass the time. They bring a passion to it. The best of sport is a kind of art, a ballet with its own virtuoso performances...
...thoughtfulness in art. The effort is focused on the home because for many snowed-in months there is no other place to focus on. Says Cooper-Hewitt Curator of Decorative Arts David Revere McFadden, who organized the show: "Whether they are made by hand or machine, Scandinavia's virtuoso designs are both art and craft. Distinction between the two would merely spoil our joy of appreciating them...
Gill scampers from side to side, picking our suitable vantage points where he can glare sinisterly our into the orgiastic crowd. A technical virtuoso equal to Adrian Belew or Robert Fripp of King Crimson, he sends screeching feedback and other bizarre sounds blazing to the ceiling, rips off eclectic chord changes to brand in with the rhythmic thrust laid down by Burnham and Lee, and contributes his eerie, monotonic voice strategically. For his part. King writhes and oscillates madly like a maniacal giraffe at the center of the stage, his primitive, guttural, and thoroughly expressive voice bounding through the controlled...