Word: virtuoso
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Violinist Alexander Schneider is no dazzling virtuoso. "After I first heard Heifetz, I cried for a week," he says. Nor, when he conducts an orchestra, is he a prima donna of the podium. Frequently, in fact, he is not even on the podium, preferring to lead unobtrusively from within the ranks with a toss of his head and a wave of his bow. Nor, as an intermittent member of the Budapest Quartet for more than 35 years, has he ever sawed away on anything but the No. 2 violin part. In short, he has made a career of playing second...
...bass playing, one of them said he was so good that "he sounded like a lousy cellist." At the time, Koussevitzky was one of three men in the 250-year history of the instrument who had mustered enough talent, courage and sense of humor to qualify as a virtuoso bass soloist...
...company to occupy the Metropolitan Opera as soon as the Royal Ballet left. Leading the company was Maya Plisetskaya, a ballerina assoluta of the broad, open Moscow style, which makes the sheer physical act of moving beautifully through space look like a natural way of life. The Russians offered virtuoso, bravo-catching nights of pinpoint turns, rock-steady balances and astronautic high leaps. But there was little to praise in the undernourished bits, snippets and shards of 19th century choreography that provided the vehicles for the Bolshoi's spectacular stars...
WOLFGANG Amadeus Mozart is history's most famous child prodigy. A virtuoso clavierist and a more than competent organist and violinist as well, he was equally boggling as performer, improviser, and composer. He fashioned his first minuets at the age of six, his first symphony approaching nine, his first oratorio at eleven, and his first opera at twelve...
...Game--like he's been simmering in a bubble bath since Douglas MacArthur flew home--it should be noted that, by virtue of its terribly attractive songs and its breathtakingly blemishless book, the show ranks rather high in its chosen category. For reasons already labored, and because of a virtuoso turn on the part of Peter Larson, who came late to the job of providing an orchestra, the production ranks almost equally high...