Word: finest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...anxious to get there early. "I love my Pooks more than anything else in the world," Rostropovich told one of the guests, and apparently he wasn't exaggerating. Rostropovich interrupted his tour of England in the summer of 1974 to visit Pooks, who was in quarantine in the finest animal infirmary in France...
...Haitink's interpretations stem, surprisingly enough, from his scrupulously orthodox approach. He is less interested in conveying his own message than in getting his men-all of whom seem to be virtuosos-to play precisely what Wagner wrote. What they play is fortunately given some of the finest sound available on disc today. For a sample, try the massed brass midway through the Parsifal prelude...
Faced with an experience that is often too rich and complex to pin down, Salisbury begins to wander between aimless lists ("the very names a litany--Prairie du Chien, La Crosse, Winona, Wabasha, Red Wing") and inconsequent facts ("that watercourse which Anthony Trollope thought the finest in the world"). His airplane-window view of America inspires musings on our manifest destiny--he looks out over "the watershed of the Mississippi, the valleys of Ohio and the plainslands of Missouri, a continent in itself as surely designed for America's use as a woman's womb for the seed of humanity...
...HAYDEN, playing at radical politics in California, disturbs Salisbury. Robert Bly explains his Freudian theory of the Vietnam War, and this intrigues Salisbury. A convention of elderly black worshippers in their finest clothes cheers him--they are "almost the only persons I met in the whole of the United States that I could truly call ladies and gentlemen." All of these people, in some way, seem to elude...
Short, one of the finest interpreters of Cole Porter, Noel Coward, Rodgers and Hart, and George Gershwin, has been playing his jazzy numbers for more than 40 years...