Word: elasticizing
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In the Rachmaninoff, Berman shows most clearly his delight with his old style of playing, fluid, elastic shapes. In fact, everything Berman plays seems suffused with a romantic willingness to bend a phrase to an expressive purpose. It would be interesting to hear him take a shot at the baroque...
Stout relishes such topical references; they are an octogenarian's way of exhibiting an elastic, contemporary mind. Indeed, a few years after entering his eighth decade he wrote a Jesuit priest friend, signing himself Rex Stout, S.J.-for "still jaunty." So is Wolfe, who this time even goes to...
Died. Jacques Charon, 55, leading actor and director for 34 years at the Comedie Franchise, France's internationally renowned classical theater; of a heart attack; in Paris. With his pudgy, infinitely elastic face and unerring sense of comic misunderstanding, Charon was a standout onstage. One awed critic, reviewing his...
Michael Ricardo, who plays one of the Duke's two partners in crime and doubles as choreographer, gracefully sings and dances his way through some dazzling production numbers. Ricardo has an elastic body and a fertile choreographic imagination--he's even managed to design a dance for seven people linked...
Died. Madeleine Vionnet, 98, grande dame of French couture; in Paris. Vionnet, as she was simply known, began her trade as an apprentice seamstress at the age of eleven in 1887, opened her own fashion house in 1912, and flourished till her retirement in 1940. She preferred to drape fabric...