Word: trouvã
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...Dead Language”). The only real disappointment came with “Il Vecchio Castello” (“The Old Castle”). The simple, lilting 6/8 trochaic rhythm was stretched out with too much rubato, completely obliterating the evocations of Medieval troubadours and trouv??res. Despite this flaw, Kissin still managed to play one of the most problematic and unidiomatic piano works like it was the easiest thing in the world, without changing a single note (unlike Horowitz, whose infamous reworking of Pictures remains controversial to this...
...first, Dustin comes on all of a heap. His stance is simian, his face an objet trouv??. The hair is from a thatched roof in Cambodia, the nose and chin from a 1948 Chevrolet, the hooded eyes from a stuffed hawk. Even the voice seems assembled, an oboe with postnasal drip. It all appears a shambles?until it begins to work, stunning audiences with articulate force. His current comedy, Jimmy Shine, is a mere vaudeville of the absurd. But within it is the vortical power of Dustin, pulling in the laughs, the cast and the audience. He growls like Durante...
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