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...baby-faced firebrand who shared first prize in the 1982 Tchaikovsky Competition with Viktoria Mullova. Sergei Slonimsky's sprightly two-minute Novgorod Dance -- hellzapoppin', cossack- style, ending with the clarinetist, trombonist, cellist, pianist and conductor all merrily hoofing it around the stage -- bespeaks a composer with both an ear and a sense of humor. Best of all is Schnittke's silvery Three Scenes for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble (1981), a theater piece for percussionists, soprano and conductor that apes a funeral procession, ending with a solemn cortege in which the vibraphone is held aloft like a coffin...
...there is still charm in Florida. Like the little girl singing the opening-day anthem at Port St. Lucie with a finger jammed in each ear; and Miss Clearwater presiding over the Phillies' inaugural in her sash and tiara; and Bobby Bonds' son Barry, a young outfielder for the Pirates, remarking in the dugout, "I liked most of my father's teams: the Cards, Yanks, Angels, White Sox, Rangers, Cubs, Giants -- not Cleveland." And the real-life pitcher Jack Armstrong, who like his namesake from the 1930s radio series seems to incarnate the all-American...
...shove people around." To NBC's John Chancellor, "the main culprit is the televised press conference: the public suddenly saw people asking nasty questions of the President of the U.S." Since the visual impression matters so much on television, Chancellor also brought up "the Ronald Reagan cupped-ear gambit. The press is deliberately and systematically kept away from him. All you hear is a bunch of monkeys screaming at him when they could easily have been brought right up, and the President could have stood and talked in a conversational tone. That is killing us, and it's not hurting...
...close? If hockey were a dance, Saturday'sgame would have been a tango, one team whisperingin the other's ear...
...Tchaikovsky competition, which required performance of the concerto. Since then, with the rise in competitions' importance, the work has become one of the most overplayed of all repertoire staples. The passion and fervor of the work, which seemed so wild and new in 1875, can strike the jaded modern ear as overworn and even vacuous...