Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...essential challenge of performance is to master the sizeable technical problems and to sustain an ardorous abandon as well. Aside from a little fakery in the strings, and a few errors in prominent solo passages, the HRO came significantly close. Yannatos paced the piece convincingly and generally got all the contrasts he was looking for. The violins were most exuberant, accenting the opening theme just right, and the woodwinds--especially the flutes and those juicy clarinets--phrased things well in the many interchanges. It is too bad, then, that several instruments failed at critical moments: the tranquille violin solo going...
...COLLECTED STORIES OF KATHERINE ANNE PORTER. The first complete collection of stories, four of them new, by the author of Ship of Fools. Though marred by an oppressive intellectuality, these stories confirm that Author Porter is a master stylist...
...comfortable $13,000 salary, and a sense of frustration. "The superficial little plays on words, the tired old turns of phrase that might seem something new to a little girl fresh out of Smith or Vassar-they were old hat to me." Mrs. Sadow quit to seek a master's degree in library service at Columbia, where at first she found studies so difficult that she "went home and cried every day." She stuck it out, today has a $6,250 job on the reference desk of the main New York Public Library, where she fields queries from Bryant...
...Herbert Summers turned from his career in mechanical and civil engineering to learn scuba diving, earn a master's in oceanographic geology at Southern Cal, land a job to study sediment movements on the ocean floor. Mrs. Sylvia P. Pauley earned $30,000 a year as an interior decorator in Manhattan for such clients as Charles of the Ritz, decided she wanted to be interested in "something more vital than chair legs." At 46, she enrolled at Columbia, got a B.S. in sociology, then an M.A. in educational administration. Today she makes $10,000 helping Job Corps graduates find...
Royal Hunt will appeal not only to drama buffs, but also to those interested in ballet, anthropology, history, music, ethnology, and theology. It should be seen, studied on the page, and re-seen. A master piece of historiography has been fashioned into a masterpiece of dramaturgy and now emerges as a masterpiece of total theatre...