Word: finest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eventually, as recordings crossed the Atlantic, a question was being asked seriously: Is Russia's David Oistrakh the world's finest fiddler...
...finest music on the program was Prokofiev's Sonata No. 1, which is dedicated to Oistrakh. It opened with dark, slightly nasal low tones, sang its way up to the bright blossom of a double-stop and continued to sing to the last gay note. Highlights: a section of muted runs up and down the fingerboard that felt like being brushed with feathers, and a section that had the mysterious beauty of a girl singing to herself by a forest pool. When it was over, the crowd was too moved to cheer until the violinist came back...
...gallery, as if he were perched on a castle battlement-playing a lullabye called Highland Cradle Song. It was enough to dew the eyes of even the un-kilted. The only thing missing from the program was a dirge or two, for Scots are among the world's finest dirgers...
...these was Casey Jones, which Edward Lawton '34 rejuvenated with deceptive cadences and a modal setting. In the football songs the singers exercised their penchant for strident tone without doing any musical harm. If they could learn more restraint in performing serious music, this would be one of the finest Glee Clubs of recent years, and a fitting group to represent Harvard in Europe...
...customary, the defense was alert and aggressive, with goalie Elliot Finkelstein playing his finest game of the year in goal. Early in the first period he made an exceptional save, moving some distance from the nets to cut down the shooting angle, and he made several more good ones as the game progressed...