Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Eagles opened up the scoring early, scoring off of a fast break but Zimmerman answered to tie it up in the first quarter...
...were an amusement park ride, how fast would...
...story in terms of time is especially effective, as it starts at an unspecified moment and scene, jumps back a year and works its way up to that first scene--then goes beyond. This arrangement pulls you into the story from the first page, and holds you fast through the remainder of the book...
...Boston premiere of composer-conductor Andre Previn's Sonata Vineyard, named so because it was composed just after Previn and his wife bought a home on Martha's Vineyard in 1994. The sonata is a turbulent, impassioned work that seems almost schizophrenic in its frenetic metric upheaval, alternation of fast and slow and its jagged leaping between notes, and thus the overly-vigorous attacks that seemed so out of place in Bach seem most appropriate here. The piece obviously requires the attentions of a virtuoso, and Shaham was up to the task, flawlessly tossing off harmonics, contorted chords, astronomically high...
...indeed the work was all it promised to be. A technically immaculate, lyrically impeccable, utterly dazzling spectacle, it was a truly astounding pyrotechnic display, a delicious frenzy of vibrant melodies, pizzicati flurries of fast notes, vigorous chords, and just general virtuostic brilliance. Gil Shaham was obviously in his element, a consummate performer to the very end. On top of that, he tossed it off exuberantly, making it all look completely effortless and fun-that litmus test of true performance magic...