Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prokofiev's wildly percussive and majestically colorful Second Piano Concerto last week, even the critics were astounded to hear every note of the labyrinthine cadenza; most pianists usually cut it down to their size. After wading through the cadenza, it seemed hardly difficult at all for Ashkenazy to master the rest of the piece-lightening it with brilliant glissandos and surging sonorous chords, concluding with a sudden, speedy dash that seemed to carry him from his piano stool to the wings, away from the house he had brought down about his ears...
...world of scholarship, B.S. and B.A. diplomas have turned into routine pieces of paper; sheepskins with status carry the words "master" or "doctor." Three-fourths of all college seniors now say they intend to attend graduate schools. The 314,000 graduate students in the U.S. in 1960 have grown to 510,000 today...
Constantly you feel that Berryman is daring to say something oceanic, then returning to the concrete with a thump or a blast. And the man is absolute master of his materials, which points less toward facility in the use of stanzas, rhymes, and meters--like Auden's--than toward an utter control over all the possible sounds and meanings of each word...
...these facts are evident from meeting or hearing the man. The gentle formality that is evident in conversation, transposed to the podium, becomes a real knack for showmanship, a sort of comic modesty that winds up by making him his own master of ceremonies. "No use applauding; you don't know what you're getting," he told an audience at Emerson Hall. "To make sure the evening isn't completely wasted. I'll read a poem by another man first..."He prefaced dream song #29 with a mock-heroic line: "Prepare to weep, ladies and gentlemen. Saul Bellow...
...auditorium are punctuated with cheers at Hawks basketball games. In the mobile musicians' market, it is almost axiomatic that the best orchestras are those with the biggest budgets. Facing up to the demands of the modern orchestra, the Minneapolis Symphony hired a young concert manager who has a master's degree from the Wharton School of Business in "marketing opportunities for the symphony orchestra." That the U.S. has produced the best orchestras in the world despite such difficulties makes the achievement all the more remarkable...