Word: bravura
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Horowitz has been able to achieve much more rapport with his great father-in-law. Toscanini has given him brilliant support in two of the most bravura concerto recordings ever made: the Tchaikovsky Concerto (a fabulous best-seller), and the B Flat Major Concerto of Brahms...
Short, impassive Milstein fully seizes such melodious, bravura opportunities as the Tchaikovsky and Max Bruch concertos (both of which he has recorded for Columbia). But he is also among the most sensitive living interpreters of Beethoven's and Bach's violin music. To aging Violinist Fritz Kreisler (see cut) he is the greatest of today's younger generation of violinists. Unlike most Russian fiddlers, he had a wealthy father (a wool importer). Milstein was born in Odessa, was sent to the Imperial Conservatory at the age of eleven. The revolution stopped his violin lessons, but he went...
Faced with many such free-style virtuosities, observers might not blame the average vain sitter portraitists.* But the few bravura, turn-of-the-century, super-official portraits such as John Singer Sargent's Mrs. Fiske Warren and Her Daughter, and Giovanni Boldini's Miss Edith Blair, smartly included in the show, looked rather like candy-box covers among the rest of the displays...
...with the right man. Brilliant color was splashed across the stage in the scenery and costumes of nineteenth century West Indies. Several imaginative mechanical devices, along with the panorama of color, attempt to liven up the pace. But color cannot move a stationary figure, nor brighten a static line. Bravura in production must have support in the script, and Mr. Behrman has let everyone down...
...Malta under its huge, puffed-up shadow, there was not a single plane on the island. Only 60 miles from Sicily, Malta was promptly written off by the British as impossible, to defend. But while Italy still controlled Sicily, Malta's war was a seesaw affair of brief, bravura raids and dolce jar niente. Not till the Luftwaffe took over did the real pasting come, and Malta become history's most heavily bombed island...