Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bach Society proved itself equally adept at the Romantic idiom with a flawless performance of Brahms' Screnade in D, a work written very early in the composer's career. The Serenade has a very pleasant pastoral character, using four French horns, but suffers from extreme lengthiness. Backed by such first chair palyers as flutist Cynthia Crain and cellist Stephen McGhee, conductor Greene baum exacted a virtuoso performance from the orchestra. It is a pleasure to have a local group with the ambition and the prowess of the Bach Society...
Salzburg's Mozart. Salzburg put on a winning Magic Flute, aided by the close harmony between Conductor Georg Solti and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and by Stage Director Herbert Graf's adept use of the vast, open-air Felsenreit-schule* stage. But everyone agreed that it was the sets that gave the new Flute its real magic. Mozart's mystical fantasy of free masonry unfolded among three Egyptian temple arches of flesh-pink, violet, cerulean blue, turquoise, cobalt and yellow. The middle arch was framed by black sketches of symbolic heads, and its opening revealed projected landscapes...
...came to deal on equal terms with most of the great sovereign governments of the West, the mightiest autocratic potentates of the East and great burgeoning billion-dollar corporations. Gulbenkian himself seldom dirtied his hands with the actual pumping and selling of the oil. He was an operator, an adept at what the Armenians call bazarlik, a dim figure who, in the words of one biographer, "appeared from nowhere with a proposition and usually disappeared with a profit...
...Regamey, whose order sponsored Matisse's chapel at Vence: "Le Corbusier's modulated chapel in reinforced concrete is hard and soft at the same time, like the Gospels." Swiss Architect Hermann Bauer praised it as "more like sculpture than a work of architecture." A band of gypsies, adept at mind reading, decided they liked the new chapel "because of its pure form and white color." Even Abbé Besançon confessed a change of heart: "I take back everything I said against the chapel. I think it is beautiful and believe people can pray...
...success of Miss Manning's adaptation depends very strongly on skillful and imaginative presentation. Here also the group is astoundingly adept. It would be hard to imagine lines demanding closer attention in delivery than those of Finnegans Wake, yet the cast handles them with universal aplomb. Breaking up the speeches among various characters on the stage does away with the monologue effects one is liable to get in reading, when often the various speakers are practically indistinguishable. Moreover, though many of Joyce's visual puns are lost in the transition to the stage, the actors' interpretations through pantomime and inflection...