Word: gorgeousity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Martin's performance was incredible: his tone was rich with a gorgeous vibrato, and he performed the tricky staccato scales perfectly--as Shakespeare might say, "trippingly on the tongue." Martin also projected exquisite stage presence, playing to the sections of the orchestra that shared his melody, and ending each movement with a flourish of his flute and an intense look, reminiscent of a tango dancer, toward his fellow musicians...
...Eddie Vedder--he gave a thoughtful and well-acted performance. Corona had a lovely mid-range vibrato, along with some excellent breath control in tricky solos. However, Benaim, a splendid baritone who made another Dunster appearance as a soloist in the December "Messiah," stole the show with his gorgeous interpretation of the sinister machinations of four separate villains. He hammed it up, all the while supporting a richly textured, well-trained voice...
...programming. Though it was written in the Classical period, this early symphony foreshadows his later work and the entire Romantic period. With its sweeping melodies and dramatic dynamic changes, this piece was markedly different from the other pieces in the program. Overall, H&H filled Symphony Hall with a gorgeous, resonant sound, and exhibited impressive flexibility in its interpretation of both Classical and Romantic elements...
Someone called him the Elvis of sport because he was a crossover pioneer, sexy and gorgeous, who forced the public to rethink its view of his form of entertainment. But there was more to Muhammad Ali than his amazing cunning in the ring; more than his reputation as the most charming showboater in boxing history, with an impish rhyming wit that had the power of both butterfly and bee. As Spike Lee says of Ali in the enthralling new documentary When We Were Kings, "He fused politics and sport...
Seats in the front rows of the orchestra were adequate for hearing what was going on, but balcony seats probably were not. This was a shame, because Previn played with exceeding cleverness and charm. In general, all the familiar themes were satisfying, and concertmaster Malcolm Lowe played a gorgeous solo in the lyrical section, but the great ascending chordfest near the end should have been much louder and less reserved...