Word: bravura
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...Respect. Nureyev ignores his critics, though he realizes that he still has much to learn-and many observers agree with him. In bravura numbers-such as the pas de deux from Le Corsaire or from Bournonville's The Flower Festival of Genzano-his technique is often insecure. Nureyev himself points out that Yuri Soloviev of the Kirov Ballet is a far more polished performer. But what remains undisputed is that no dancer has greater natural gifts than Nureyev, or a more tempestuous temperament...
After opening with C. E. Duble's Bravura concert march, a piece which was ideally suited to demonstrate the excellence of the band's brasses, Walker attempted a reading of three selections from Moussorgsky's Boris Godounov. The march had excited the audience, the band's Boris immediately let them down. Exposed woodwind passages were occasionally sloppy, intonation in the cornets wavered, and the pace dragged. Variations on a Shaker Melody by Copland was marred by dissonances Copland never intended, and the first half of the program ended somewhat dully with Rimsky-Korsakov's Procession of Nobles, despite displays...
...technique, but few young pianists can muster the depths of thought and feeling that seem to come to him naturally. His reading of Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 last week had an unusual breadth, a feeling of spaciousness, an easy-breathing pulse. It had its purely bravura moments - trip-hammer scales that Barenboim's small, elegant hands looked incapable of - but the overall effect was one of quietly exalted strength...
When Dorothy Baker published Young Man with a Horn (1938), the thinly disguised story of the great jazz trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke, expectations for her future ran high. The book evoked the bravura of the jazz cult with dash and devotion, if also a dash of sentimentalism. Her two subsequent novels remained merely promising. Cassandra is her long-awaited fourth novel, written 24 years after her first, and presumably a mature work. It is a crushing disappointment...
...gave concerts with an old Russian friend, Pianist Vladimir Horowitz. It was not until after World War II, when he married and settled down in Manhattan, that he began to build a reputation as something more than an extraordinarily gifted virtuoso. Milstein is still a master of the bravura composers-Max Bruch, Sarasate-but he has found new and interesting things to say about Brahms, Beethoven, Bach. The keynotes of great Milstein performances are their flash and fire. Milstein is willing to take chances-on trip-hammer tempos, flashing colors, amazing fluctuations in volume. His taste as a listener runs...