Word: matchlessly
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...century fought at the box office to see his performances. Groundlings came to the theater carrying almost every conceivable throwable object,* causing such terror among Mr. Coates's fellow actors that they invariably skewed and pied all the best-known lines of the great tragedies, transforming them into matchless comedies. Coates himself cared little for the lines but much for his costumes: playing Romeo on one occasion, he cried, "Oh, let me hence, I stand on sudden haste," and then, as if wording the action to his suit, dropped "on all fours and crawled round and round the stage...
...chamber music on its own heights. It lacks the bite, power and drive of the Budapest, whose Beethoven performances are unique, but its tone is warmer. In the haunting sighs and groans of the tragic No. 14, the Hollywood dips beneath the surface to the inner life of a matchless work...
...Christmas disk has somewhat better surfaces, and the same almost matchless quality of choral singing. The assortment of short pieces has more variety than the mass, and gives the HGC-RCS the chance to display considerable breadth of technique. They approach each carol with appropriate vigor or with calm, so that they are somehow able to sound festive without sounding like the YWCA Christmas party...
...shingle as a piano teacher ("No pupils," he recalls). But Fritz Reiner, then at Philadelphia's famed Curtis Institute of Music, was impressed by a dazzling Bernstein audition, took him on as a student in conducting. But it was in the late Serge Koussevitzky. the Boston Symphony Orchestra's matchless showman, that Bernstein found his musical father. Koussevitzky invited him to join the conducting class at Tanglewood's summer music school. The old man called him Lenyush ka, and told friends: "The boy is a new Koussevitzky, a reincarnation...
...stand, he stands as if his feet were in concrete." New Hampshire's Styles Bridges was sobered by an obvious thought: "Let us not talk about Bill as though he were no longer our colleague. Instead let us hail the fact that for two more years his matchless leadership will be found in the No. 1 seat on the right-hand side of the aisle." In the No. i seat, the hero of the hour sat stoically staring ahead, grinned occasionally, until the last of 29 colleagues had hurled a rose petal...