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Bartok's First Violin Sonata, while heavily influenced by the atonality of Schoenberg, abounds with injunctions of "espressivo" and "appasionato". A listener not aware of this might have thought from Chase's performance that Bartok, desiring some special effect, had ordered the violinist to play dispassionately, and vibrato only selectively...
The most celebrated architects tend toward extremism, stylistically speaking. It is the novelty and even freakishness of their visions that get them noticed in the first place, and followers of middle roads are usually middling talents. Fumihiko Maki is that rare designer whose buildings are decorous but also fetchingly strange...
GLENN GOULD WAS A GLORIOUS ECCENtric: a concert dropout; a reclusive, self- promoting ascetic; a pianist of Horowitzian technique who, with curious exceptions like Bizet and Sibelius, usually shunned the Romantics. Sony Classical's magnificent GLENN GOULD EDITION, to be completed in 1994, presents Gould's entire recorded oeuvre (much...
But many of them know little about the details of Malcolm's remarkable evolution from a street hustler who slept with white women to an ascetic minister in the Nation of Islam who preached against whites and finally to an orthodox Muslim who embraced all races. Seldom do they mention...
Lamb leads an ascetic life-style, sharing a townhouse in Arlington, Virginia, with his girlfriend Holly Hassett, a lobbyist for Hershey Foods. He's in bed by 9:30 and rises around 4:45 a.m. to begin plowing through the nine newspapers he reads every day. His Buddha-like serenity...