Word: superbness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sent a radio message of farewell to Skaubryn's Captain Alf Faeste and his crew: "Your feat in lowering 16 boats containing 1,300 people into the water in 35 minutes without loss of life or injury, with so little warning, and from a blazing ship, is a superb example of seamanship and discipline unique in maritime history. When you speak of this disaster, you can hold your heads high...
...David has long since left problems of technique far behind. He is completely in the service of the music's content, and yesterday his taste was impeccable. He played well into the keys, and elicited from the piano a superb tone--none of the fortissimos had even a hint of harshness. In short, he played like his teacher, Rudolf Serkin, with all the latter's foot-stamping...
Your Feb. 24 Art section is masterful in every sense. The layout and the black-and-white reproductions are the best I've seen, and the color photos of Japanese gardens are superb. I was swept with sentimentality when I saw the reproduction of the moss garden of Kyoto's Saihoji monastery. While stationed at Johnson Air Base, near Tokyo, I used to know a patch of wood that resembled this garden. G.I.s living in my barracks walked through it to reach the service club. On the rainy, magic-like mornings of spring and summer, the spot...
...voice has lost remarkably little of its magnificent luster, still has a meltingly eloquent sensuousness and superb dramatic projection. Widowed (since 1946) Soprano Flagstad was recently appointed director of the new Norwegian Opera, will be the only woman running a major opera house in Europe. "It is not natural to be singing at my age," she says, "but then I am not losing my voice. I just sing and sing, and it keeps me young...
...Ettore Bastianini; conducted by Gianandrea Gavazzeni; London, 3 LPs). A first-rate cast gives a racy reading to Amilcare Ponchielli's old campaigner from Venice, proves that there is a lot more to it than its pop-concert Dance of the Hours. Mellow-voiced Soprano Cerquetti gives a superb performance as "the joyous female" of the title role who loses her blind mother and her lover before she plunges a dagger in her heart. Tenor del Monaco sings so gustily that he conceals the fact his Grimaldo is the most hagridden hero in opera...