Word: musicianship
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...surprisingly, Elkies is considered a prodigy in both the Mathematics and Music Departments. "Noam is unlike anyone we've ever had," says Jameson N. Marvin, director of the Glee Club. "His gifted musicality, superior musicianship and sight-reading ability are an extraordinary gift. He's like a Bach or a Mozart...
David took honors classes at high school, but it was extracurricular action that got his full attention. Early attempts at mainstream musicianship met with some resistance. He was rejected from the choir at Arbutus Junior High because, the teacher told his parents, David was "off-key and too withdrawn...
...labeled during Zep's reign--not surprising since Page began his career as a sessionman for half of Britain, including the early Who. But on the Firm's new LP, Mean Business (Atlantic) Page begins to build up the band into more than just a mishmash of misfiring musicianship...
...affable and charming. Of average height, balding, with a pleasant Gallic face, he could pass for a friendly greengrocer in his native Loire region. Yet throughout his career, his work has often been criticized for what some perceive as a fundamental coldness. Boulez resents the charge and defends his musicianship. Recalling the hostile reception he met from the fiercely proprietary Bayreuth musicians before his first Ring, he notes, "When you are attached to contemporary music, immediately they suppose you don't know the classic repertoire. But I think I can study a score very well, so I am not really...
...years ago, are | distinguished by Goodman's bright, bracing tone and fleet fingerwork. Although the clarinet naturally predominates, Goodman hands off the musical lines just as deftly as he did in a different kind of chamber music, accompanied by Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson and the late Gene Krupa. Good musicianship, like gold, is negotiable anywhere...