Word: virtuoso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Morris Bagby was one of the last links with Franz Liszt. Musician Bagby never learned from the master how to be a virtuoso pianist, but he played whist with Liszt, and like other pupils reverently snitched the hairs which drifted from Liszt's white mane to the collar of his morning coat. Morris Bagby heard Brahms play the piano, "as though he had ten thumbs." When Pianist Bagby returned to the U. S., he was invited by Julia Ward Howe to read a paper at Newport's Town and Country Club. Mrs. Howe's daughter advised...
...into that pit, McArthur had come a long way. As a piano prodigy in Denver, he made money for music lessons by selling magazines on street corners, picking berries at 2? a quart. In high school, young McArthur played the typewriter; his virtuoso prestissimo won him the Colorado championship. Then he turned accompanist and vocal coach, for Ginger Rogers and Ethel Merman as well as for concert artists like John Charles Thomas, Gladys Swarthout and, finally, Soprano Flagstad...
...odor of warm oil, warm metal filled the crowded tank; then the steady, rhythmic, lulling scrunch of the gears. Behind the motorized infantry, the motorcyclists, the trim anti-tank guns, the 68th moved into line, went past The Old Man at 20 m.p.h. Sergeant Pullen drove like a virtuoso, keeping his tank dressed with the four others on his left, watching the field for holes or stumps which would give him and his men a bashing blow against the steel walls...
...Included in the novel's 496-page sweep are three brilliant novelle: Ensign Woodbridge's encounter with the hypocritical missionaries, the story of the Irish monk and the satanic trader, Parker, and Seaman O'Connell on a berserk rampage. Included also is many a burst of virtuoso prose, in which Author Goodrich compares the ship to a walled town, to the Tower of Constance, to the Alamo, to anything that represents man's constant war against an unfriendly world...
...organ concertos. It was written specifically for harp or organ, so that it is not merely a transcription, but a work composed by Handel with the harp actually in mind. How Handel treats the harp in this concerto, and how the harp compares with the organ as a virtuoso instrument for concerto, are interesting questions which should be answered Monday night...