Word: craftsmanship
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Alas, no. Lord Byron is infused with Thomson's musical craftsmanship-adroit trios and sextets, transparent orchestral writing-but not the expressive spark to illuminate the drama. An exception is the nostalgic suite of dances for the third-act ballet (choreographed by Alvin Ailey) that depicts Byron's travels, amours and death in Europe. The rest is a feeble reminder of a once-insinuating talent...
Balance is a key to Doc and Merle Watson's sound-a balance between practiced craftsmanship in playing and an unaffected honesty each time they play, and between deeply felt emotion in the songs and a thoughtful artistic control which eschews the kind of mawkish sentiment to which too much "simple" music falls victim...
Searching the Slopes. All four firms have learned to sell glamour as well as craftsmanship. Kneissl, for which Schranz has worked since he was a teenager, claims that its skis have helped capture 16 Olympic medals. It urges its salesmen to "mention our victories in your sales talks." Like its competitors, Kneissl regularly sends out talent scouts to search the mountainsides for promising 12-and 13-year-olds, whom it hires as apprentices, sends to secondary school and trains to be champion skiers...
...with Out of It, the direction is geared to producing solid characterizations, visuals be damned. But there is also something enervating about the film, just as sure as there is a greenish-gray pall which dominates its atmosphere. It's as if Williams finds his own sense of craftsmanship dispiriting, and thus sets out to follow his intellect rather than be led by real inspiration...
Sheer Will. Ironically, the decline set in when De Chirico resolved to be a Great Artist in the traditional, Italian sense of the word. "I have been tormented by one problem for almost three years now-the problem of craftsmanship," he wrote to Breton in 1922. The gulf between the early work and De Chirico's St. George Killing the Dragon, 1940, can only be explained in terms of this problem. St. George, with its glutinous, worried paint, its muddily incoherent color and its torpid drawing, would hardly pass as a student academy piece; it is recognizable, though only...