Word: virtuoso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whirlwind of a woman at 41, finds time to teach a children's class at the Juilliard School of Music and another class for elementary-school teachers at City College. She keeps house for her husband Paul Smith, head of Columbia University's mathematics department (and recorder virtuoso in Suzanne's ensemble). And she raises her two sons. Says Suzanne: "It keeps me normal...
...which is almost prohibitively hard to sing. The part requires not just a fabulous voice, but also the ability to carry off convincingly a highly dramatic role, one which requires everything from kissing a severed head to dancing a modified strip tease. Ljuha Welitseh's performance was a real virtuoso triumph, which makes it easy to understand how, in two months, she has risen from anonymity to become the Met's leading prima donna...
...Virtuoso violinists frequently play excerpts from Bach's Partitas and Sonatas for violin Alone as encores. Seldom are they ambitions enough to plan programs which include he whole set. But Alexander Schneider is doing just that in Sanders Theater under the auspices of Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. He played three last night; tonight he will do the rest...
...York production had Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt in it, and it was one of their big virtuoso comedy performances. I saw the play in summer stock two summers ago with a very fine actress, but it did not have the gaiety that must have made the Lunts' production go. This gaiety--or call it nerve, or sparkle, or briliance--must be there. Without it, the play is not very interesting. And it is largely up to the two stars to create it and hold it all the way through...
...joke. Yes, it was true: he had told the interpreter that he knew about fishing-fishing was his hobby. But he had also told the interpreter that in his native Poland he was known as the grandnephew of famed Novelist Henryk (Quo Vadis?) Sienkiewicz, as a cello virtuoso and as an occasional conductor of the Warsaw Symphony Orchestra...