Word: flawlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like Casals, Slava is an unabashed romantic. Cradling his Strad between his legs?or, more precisely, embracing it?he seems to pour his Russian soul into every phrase, bowing long, singing lines with a subtle eloquence and a purity of tone. His technique is flawless. Modern composers lay finger-mangling minefields in the thickets of their pieces, but Rostropovich negotiates them with cheerful ease. "I don't even know why my hands do certain things sometimes," he says. "They just grab for the notes." His dynamic range, from the greatest fortissimo down the line to a pianissimo that comes...
...that is so, few people have noticed it, least of all Slava. In many ways, he is a changed man. For one thing, he has discovered money. He has learned that big names are marketable. ("His command of English is not flawless," says a colleague, "but numbers he understands.") He now receives $15,000 for a cello recital, and his N.S.O. salary, though not publicly disclosed, runs upwards of $100,000 a year, which puts him into the top ranks, with the likes of Sir Georg Solti. He is generous with his time and talent. Once he flew from...
Playing two distinctly unattractive characters, Cronyn and Tandy keep an unfailing grip on the audience not by the characters that they portray but with how they interact in flawless craftsmanship. Their words, gestures, voices and facial expressions are like the serves, volleys, lobs and smashes of a championship tennis match. They score 6-love in a play that is stalemated at deuce...
...might expect from a play that focuses on revolutionary politics and was written by a New Left B.U. political science professor turned playwright, the script of Emma is not flawless. The dialogue at times degenerates into trite cliches, complete with occasional bouts of slogan shouting...
Superb defense by Harvard backs Bin Martineau and Wendy Sonnabend kept the Huskie attack silent, while Betty Ippolito's flawless goaltending kept all 13 Northeastern shots away from the Crimson net, and moved the J.V. record...