Word: mutteringly
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They seem at first to have little in common, the wunderkind and the defector. One commands the stage like a young princess, voluptuous in a strapless designer gown that accents the alluring curve of her shoulders and the luxurious corona of her billowing tresses. As Anne-Sophie Mutter lays her bow on the strings of her Stradivarius, the music swells seductively, and all at once the intoxicating perfume of the theater fills the air. "Music is a form of love, the highest form of love," she says. "It is passion...
Together they make a contrapuntal etude. Mutter, 24, is a child of the prosperous West German bourgeoisie who grew up in a small town near the Black Forest and still returns frequently to visit her family. Mullova, 28, abandoned the gray streets and grayer bureaucracy of her native Moscow in 1983. Yet both women, currently in the forefront of young performers on their instrument, are emblematic of an important development in the world of concert music: the rise and triumph of the female solo violinist...
...Mutter and Mullova are just two of the many women violinists of talent and temperament now gracing the world's stages. Korean-born Kyung-Wha Chung, 40, shared first prize in the Leventritt Competition with Pinchas Zukerman in 1967, and has since established herself as a major artist on the strength of her burnished tone and fiery passagework. Chung is a performer of great interpretative range and insight who can light up the night with a blazing Tchaikovsky concerto, probe the intimate, sorrowing mysteries of Alban Berg's twelve-tone essay in the form, or tackle Sir Edward Elgar...
...processing plants and supermarkets. At one cattle ranch, he asked to see "some of the workers." The rancher replied that there were none; he ran the spread of several hundred acres with only his family and a handful of day laborers. A Canadian host who speaks Russian heard Gorbachev mutter under his breath, "We are not going to see this ((in the Soviet Union)) for another 50 years." Eugene Whelan, then Minister of Agriculture and Gorbachev's official host, was surprised on another occasion to hear the Soviet leader comment about the invasion of Afghanistan: "It was a mistake...
...liquor license forever. When pro football banned those unseemly scenes in 1973, a Miami tackle named Manny Fernandez was particularly indignant. He whined, "I don't drink champagne because it's too tough on my stomach, but I'd like to pour it on somebody," prompting Red Smith to mutter, "For barbarians like that, Dr Pepper's too good...