Word: godly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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 on little cat feet, is nothing short of phenomenal. "You played like a god!" swooned a woman one night in New York. "Yes," replied Slava with a twinkle and a verbal pinch on the cheek, "but like a god with...
...when he spied a musician chewing gum. Szell was a tyrant. Toscanini's men loved him, yet trembled before his baton-snapping temper. "Sometimes," says Rostropovich in his near-impenetrable English, "conductor says to orchestra, 'You play for me and my ego!' No. Orchestra must not think conductor is god. Some day he is running quick to bathroom, then orchestra says, 'There go god with diarrhea.' I, with my work, make service for our most important god?music. I tell them, you not work for me,' I not work for you. We work first for our music, then...
...Tremont St. it is getting colder. Harry Lyme offers you a drag. As you take one you wonder, college-kid-guilt seeping through you cold as rain, how much you can spare from your wallet. Oh God! You can't really...Coop bill, phone bill, that record you promised your roommate, boyfriend's birth-day present--oh well, you console yourself, it would only hurt his pride to be offered money...
...curse upon Idomeneo was not easy to lift. Its setting is ancient Crete, where King Idomeneo and his gang are squirming under the rule of a choleric god. Stormbound at sea while returning from the Trojan War, Idomeneo has begged Neptune for deliverance. In return, he will sacrifice the first person he encounters on shore. Straining the long arm of coincidence, Idomeneo steps on land-and meets his son Idamante. Such subject matter is a problem for 20th century audiences, but not the only one. Idomeneo is written in the style of opera seria, the stilted, ritualistic 18th century Italian...
...genius, self-knowledge and frequent self-loathing set him apart. Roman Catholicism, to which he converted in 1930, provided an intellectual and ritual framework for his deeply pessimistic view of his institutions and attachments, indeed of all mankind. It was the classical view of lost Eden -of damnation without God's grace-that could lead Waugh at the height of his fame and good fortunes to ask, "Why am I not at ease? Why is it I smell all the time wherever I turn the reek of the Displaced Persons' Camp...