Word: graces
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Giulio Romano was so well known in his time that he is the only painter mentioned in any of Shakespeare's plays. Famous, and rather vulgar. If Raphael was the epitome of grace among artists of the High Renaissance and Michelangelo the paragon of sublimity, then Giulio was all licentious facility. So ran the judgment of our Victorian forebears, who could not quite forgive Raphael's best pupil for his indelicacy. An air of brilliant second- rateness still clings to his name. Those who can thrust their way through the crowds in Palazzo Te in Mantua and manage a long...
...instrument of this colossal output was drawing. Giulio was incontestably a great draftsman. Drawing was as natural to him as speech; Raphael, in fact, took him on as a studio assistant when Giulio was not much more than ten. The grace, the spontaneity of his pen line -- rushing over the paper as though impelled by the lightest inflection of thought, quick but always controlled, strengthened by brown washes that confirm its structure -- does not always translate to the paintings and frescoes, where it seems heavier and overdetermined. But with Giulio, design and invention were inseparable, and their combination is worn...
...VICTOR VOCAL SERIES. Maybe they weren't better in the old days, but these digitally remastered recordings make a strong case that the jet plane and overbooked schedules are enemies of vocal grace. The first issues in this new project include Marian Anderson, Leonard Warren, Rosa Ponselle, Tito Schipa and Jussi Bjoerling. The Warren disk is an oddity, recorded live on a 1958 tour of the Soviet Union, where the baritone's dark, sexy voice knocked 'em dead. Ponselle's sublime vocal poise lights great Verdi arias and ditties like When I Have Sung My Songs...
...written 20 years ago is exactly what sets it apart as something truly special. For music fans who have spent the summer listening to some of the other dinosaurs of rock and roll refusing to die before they get old, watching the Dead accept and acknowledge their age with grace and dignity through compositions like this one is a pleasure...
...Grace J. Fan '93, founder of Harvard Musicians Against Homelessness, said a growing concern about the severity of homelessness prompted her to organize a concert series to benefit local shelters...