Word: virtuoso
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...published book called Cellist, excerpted in last week's Saturday Review, Piatigorsky writes a delightfully incisive analysis of wandmanship. The conductor's role, he argues, has grown out of all reasonable proportions. "The focus of attention" he says, "has shifted from prima donna, prima ballerina and the virtuoso to a conductor, who, as a performer, has become all three in one. If he is to be blamed at all, it is not so much for assuming his role, but for demanding and wearing his crown so naturally...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). One, Two, Three, Billy Wilder's marvelous spoof about a Coca-Cola exec in West Berlin, featuring a virtuoso performance by James Cagney...
Heavenly, Beautiful. In such a hotbed of violinists, a touring virtuoso must display truly extraordinary gifts to elicit any kind of favorable response from the discerning Israeli critics and audiences. Last week just such an extraordinary talent came to Israel-Itzhak Perlman, 19, on his first visit to his native land since he left to study in the U.S. six years ago. Crisscrossing the country for eight concerts, Perlman drew rapturous reviews: "heavenly, beautiful," "already a master," "in the front row of the very few great violinists of our day." Said Michal Smoira, critic for Tel Aviv's Haaretz...
Having said this, let me add that these are not Dubuffet's greatest prints. This series seems decorative beside the simple force of his war-time work or when compared to his lithographic masterpieces in the 1953 Series. Also missing is his recent virtuoso performance, Saturday Afternoon 1964. Still, we are lucky to get any Dubuffets at all. They are most reasonably priced, and have frames by Bill Richardson (more on him in the next article...
Every detail is luxuriously provided for; for example, Virtuoso George Malcolm plays the relatively minor but fundamental role of harpsichord accompanist in four of the concertos...