Word: sonata
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...Bartosik’s was no exception. Despite her clarity and a good sense of timing, Bartosik still battled the piano’s unresponsive upper register, which gained some audience sympathy. Prokofiev, the composer of the evening, made his final appearance with “Sonata No. 3,” played by Xi Li ’09, who also showcased Franz Liszt’s “La Campanella.” The charming performance of this bell-like piece, based on a theme by violin-god Niccolo Paganini, further emphasized the piano?...
...best suited for quaint old art-film houses, where the scent of cappuccino mixes with an aura of intellectual smugness. Titles like The Naked Night, Smiles of a Summer Night, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, The Virgin Spring, Through a Glass Darkly, The Silence, Persona, Cries and Whispers, Autumn Sonata, Fanny and Alexander and After the Rehearsal, which once constituted a summa-cum-laude cinematic honor roll, have since tumbled into Trivial Pursuit territory...
Hyundai has rapidly built up regard for its products through an almost fanatical attention to getting it right. Consumer Reports magazine recently named the Sonata the most reliable car in the U.S. And Hyundai placed a solid third among nonluxury brands in J.D. Power & Associates' 2005 survey of initial-car quality, beating out Honda. Six years ago, Hyundai ranked among the worst in terms of initial defects. The comeback is "astounding," says Chance Parker, executive director at J.D. Power in Westlake Village, Calif...
...short run, Chung's obsession with quality can be costly. Last year he delayed the launch of a new Sonata in Korea for two months while engineers cleaned up 50 minor defects. In 2003 he asked senior R&D executive Lee to get rid of an annoying noise that grinding gears were making in the transmissions of Kia Amanti sedans. "I told him that we'd lose two months of sales," Lee recalls. "The chairman said, 'If it's for quality...
...innovative to woo back reluctant customers. In 1998 the company began offering a 10-year warranty, the best in the industry at the time. And to compete with bigger brands, Hyundai loaded up its models with features that many of its rivals sell only as expensive extras. A 2006 Sonata for the U.S. market comes with six air bags (most competitors offer only four as the standard), a six-speaker CD and MP3 player, and an advanced antilock-braking system--all for less than...