Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BACH: CONCERTO IN D MINOR; CHOPIN: CONCERTO NO. 2 IN F MINOR (London). Vladimir Ashkenazy's technical brilliance is enough by itself to rivet the listener's attention, but it is only one factor in a superb performance. He moves across the glittering surface of the Chopin like moonlight on a windswept lake, and gives the popular Bach concerto an almost hearty treatment that displays to perfection the gaiety in its baroque adornments...
...Mentality for the Unusual." Remarkable as Carpenter's feat was, few people who knew him were surprised. A superb, all-round athlete at Springfield (Pa.) High School, Bill Carpenter had some two dozen college offers when he graduated-including one from the U.S. Military Academy. That was the one he wanted, and after a one-year brush-up course at New York's Manlius School, Carpenter was admitted to the Point...
...grander scale was a superb new ballet based on Purcell's music for The Faerie Queen, starring Britain's Dame...
...lack the vocal technique to completely put over their most difficult scenes, they make up for it by turning in consistent performances which are frequently brilliant and effective. Silverstein moves powerfully, and flawlessly executes the stage business Babe has given him. Shuman's first outburst hits a superb blend of fear and repressed aggression...
This remarkable volume demonstrates that she was a great writer of another kind: a superb expositor of the self in the grand Gallic tradition of Montaigne, Rousseau and Ninon de Lenclos. From 2,000 pages of random reminiscences, which Colette published but never collected, Editor Robert Phelps has skillfully constructed a sort of accidental autobiography that reveals Colette as the richest character in her oeuvre-indeed, as one of the most extraordinary women of the century...