Word: golden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pratt's confidence in "The Hut on Fowl's Legs" was beyond belief. It sounded as if he had been playing this piece for twice his age. But what made the entire performance of "Pictures" truly great, as good as the golden Benno Moiseiwitsch recording, was his huge sound at "The Great Gate of Kiev." The audience was completely under his spell. And his choice of encore, the Schumann-Liszt "Widmung," sent everyone home smiling...
...think a Golden Age of piano playing ever existed, or does everyone simply mythicize the past...
...There are some old recordings I like a lot, and there are some I don't. Audiences know more than they think they do, but what they think they know, they don't. There may be a dimension [to the so-called Golden Age] in terms of the pure communication of character which may be a little lacking now. People today may be succumbing to the value of the note as opposed to the value of the music. But there's something to be said for being able to put on a record and know instantly who's playing... Horowitz...
Part of Fleming's success comes from dedicated preparation. A passionate fan of Golden Age opera recordings, she listened to 24 versions of Manon while studying for the part. And she is just as devoted to her family, taking her daughters, ages 2 and 5, with her to every engagement. "They both went on their first trips with me when they were about a month old," she says...
...forget that the bull market has coincided with--helped to cause, in fact--a golden era in New York that has brought more and more visitors to the city and thus to the city's restaurants. According to my theory, it must have eventually dawned on a critical mass of diners (many of them already in a state of irritation from having had to shoulder their way past a mob of noisy Knuckleheads at the bar) that if the bozos in red suspenders across the room were in charge on Wall Street, the system had to be deeply flawed. Panic...