Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political star had been born. Wrote Sun & Timesman John Dreiske: "He was a smash hit. There once were those who gloomily opined he should not travel in the same caravan with Paul H. Douglas [Democratic candidate for Senator] because of the danger [that] he would be eclipsed by that brilliant orator. Put away your handkerchiefs. Don't cry for Stevie...
Says Francescatti, with a crinkly grin: "With Ormandy, whom I play with most, I make fun. With Bruno Walter, no; with him it is just the angelic smile." Francescatti likes to take concerts easy-but he keeps his playing clean, forthright and brilliant. A small, excitable Frenchman of 42, Francescatti has been fiddling in the U.S. ten years, and is now regarded as one of the half-dozen first-raters in this country. In his native Marseilles he learned most of his art from his mother and father, both able violinists, and could play classical concertos before he learned...
...LeCorbeiller has used his knowlege of philosophy calculus, bridge-building, and all kinds of things, to build up his thesis and one faculty associate of his was recently forced to admit, "We don't all go along with him on his fundamental thesis, but the reasoning is brilliant...
...rare friendly moments, his father nicknamed him "Mr. Hurricane." The simple outline of Mirabeau's doings becomes a kind of epic of frustration whose misery Madame Vallentin, engrossed in her psychological analyses, does not seem to appreciate. He was ugly, and so he was the butt of the brilliant nobility, and a burden to his father who was at first ashamed of him and then, as Mirabeau developed as a writer, jealous...
...difference between piano and harpsichord is more than one of degree. It is very nearly one of opposites. The piano's strings are struck by a hammer; those of the harpsichord are plucked. When played in combination with a piano, Bach and Mozart violin sonatas can be brilliant, noble, dramatic, tender, melodically beautiful--but they can never express the intimacy that should characterize classical chamber music. When played by harpsichord and violin, this intimacy is never lost. The two instruments blend into each other almost as if they were one; and the music seems to become a part...