Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Budapest Quartet plays with poise and assurance. Joseph Roisman, the first violinist, asserts vigorous leadership with amazing economy of motion. Jac Gorodetzky, the new second violinist, is a distinct improvement over his predecessor who always seemed to play his important motives too softly. The Quartet is one of the finest groups in the nation, and their appearance here was one of the season's highlights...
Three performances--Romeo, Juliet, and Mercutio--are thoroughly outstanding. Richard Waring's Romeo is gentle and sad at times, and passionate and exalted at others. His voice is wonderfully modulated throughout the two records, and is always distinct and full of meaning. In the role of Juliet, Eva Le Gallienne attains great emotional conviction with a voice that is both delicate and strong. Dennis King, as Mercutio, is spirited and fanciful, and always in the true spirit of the apart. For the most part the performances of the rest of the cast are above average, except for Preston Hanson, whose...
...success of this production is the general excellence of the supporting cast. Malcolm Keen as Capulet is as ingratiating a character actor as I have seen, and Evelyn Carden as the nurse is quite funny, except in the early parts of the play when she is not distinct...
Hanslick knew what he liked, and could tell why. He admired Clara Schumann because her playing "is a most truthful representation of magnificent compositions, but not an outpouring of a magnificent personality . . . Everything is distinct, clear, sharp as a pencil sketch." But if Hanslick had never written a word about any other musician, his place in musical history would still be secure as the sharpest thorn in the sensitive flesh of Richard Wagner...
...work." To him the two religions were "essentially of one piece, one religious reality: Judaism facing inward to the Jews, Christianity outward to the Gentiles. The two faiths are organically linked as complementary aspects of God's revealed truth. Yet they are not the same; they are distinct and different in their being and in their function . . . While Israel stays with God, Christianity goes out to conquer the unredeemed world...