Word: traditionalist
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...opened grand piano and used the Steinway's vast sounding board as a natural amplifier, thus creating all sorts of lingering overtones. This experimental technique might have been expected more of the younger Byron than of Batiste, the elder statesman, but Batiste showed that he is more than a traditionalist throughout the concert...
...going to call this a long-term battle, because it's easier that way and we have a role in history to play. Historically, all momentous changes in the organization of a society or community have been opposed by traditionalist groups. These traditionalist groups always get a prominent mention in the history books and represent the zeniths of the society that preceded the change. That's us. We're the best and brightest of the segregators by race, by extracurricular interest, and by levels of pretension. Hear us roar...
Village Voice executive editor Richard Goldstein put Croce "under the aegis of the Great Newt, [where] a traditionalist may safely rage against the rise of minorities." Conservative art critic Hilton Kramer saw things differently, calling the piece "the most definitive essay on the arts in the 1990s that any American critic has yet written ... a landmark in the cultural history...
...composer's death diminishes the musical scene, but Stephen Albert's fatal automobile accident two years ago was especially costly. At 51, Albert had emerged as one of the leaders of the neo-conservative traditionalist movement, a position cemented by his winning the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for his first symphony, RiverRun, a work that was by turns lyrical, witty and sardonic. So it was a bittersweet occasion last week when the New York Philharmonic premiered Albert's Symphony No. 2: the music was first rate, and that made the loss of its composer seem all the more dear...
...game, and Chris Evert, whose legacy includes killer concentration and the two-fisted backhand. Navratilova's gifts may be even more significant. She elevated serve and volley tactics to a higher level on the women's tour and made it fashionable for women to display muscle tone. Even traditionalist Evert began to pump iron after Martina showed...