Word: limbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What makes Banks's blasts so remarkable is the fact that he is as lean and limber (6 ft. 1 in., 176 Ibs.) as any good-field-no-hit shortstop, a breed that traditionally has had trouble banging the fences. But Banks has powerful wrists and forearms. "You grab hold of him and it's like grabbing steel," says Cub Manager Bob Scheffing...
...tweedy Composer Imbrie worked intermittently on his concerto for four years, completed it in 1954. As performed last week by the San Francisco Symphony, with Robert Gross as violin soloist, it proved to be a propulsive, clamorous virtuoso work in both twelve-tone and traditional diatonic idioms, with its limber solo line woven through the big sonorities of the orchestra in a stirringly unfolding tapestry of sound. The first movement, in alternating slow and fast tempi, built to its main climax by echoing the solo violin nights with orchestral figurations set at closer and closer intervals. By turns, the second...
...Australia, where limber-limbed youngsters have a habit of cracking world records, swimming fans had guessed that some day a 15-year-old Latvian immigrant named Jon Konrads would be a champion. But no one knew much about his kid sister, 13-year-old Ilsa, except that she had never won a major race...
First Place (J. J. Johnson; Columbia LP). The current ruling jazz trombonist struts some of his limber-lined, impeccably phrased stuff on a fine solo album. The selections include revamped oldies such as It's Only a Paper Moon, a haunting blues number called Harvey's House, and a scattering of pleasant Johnson originals...
...weeks shared the bill with Mary Lou: "Just playing with her, my own playing has improved a thousand percent!" All the selections Mary Lou plays at The Composer are her own arrangements, including such standards as Somebody Loves Me (with strong, marching chords and racing right hand) and a limber, longing I'm in the Mood for Love. She plays them all with deadpan face until the music begins to stride. Then the head nods, the lips part in a shy smile and "Yeah," says Mary Lou Williams softly. "Yeah...