Word: virtuoso
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Gritty, dogged Italy advanced to the quarters by somehow avoiding a loss to Romania and beating a French team that is fading faster than its own side. Against high-scoring Spain, and lacking its midfield virtuoso Andrea Pirlo, Italy opted for its classic catennacio defense, and Spain suffered the consequences. Italy's interest in attack was episodic, and with the helpless Luca Toni leading its offense, Italy registered its first corner kick 40 minutes into the game...
America's first great piano virtuoso was a darkly handsome, intense young New Yorker named William Kapell. He had it all: a staggering technique, passion and an artistic instinct that pierced to the heart of every piece. In 1953 he died in a plane crash at 31. All that remained were his legend and a handful of recordings. Then in 2004 a trove of new Kapell performances surfaced, recorded at home by Australian department-store salesman Roy Preston from radio broadcasts of Kapell's final tour. A selection of those recordings is now being released in a two-disc...
...Harvard received a virtuoso pitching performance from freshman Zach Hofeld, who rose out of obscurity to throw nine innings of four hit, one run ball for a complete game gem that gave the Crimson a 2-1 victory, its first in conference play...
MUSIC IN TOKYO On May 17, Tokyo's Sumida Triphony Hall plays host to a powerhouse duo of Japan's classical music scene, as celebrated conductor Seiji Ozawa meets virtuoso pianist Ayako Uehara. Accompanied by the New Japan Philharmonic, Uehara will perform Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3, displaying the superb technique and dynamism that helped her become the first woman to win the International Tchaikovsky Competition. The njp will follow that performance with Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique", a piece known as Ozawa's specialty. www.njp.or.jp by Yuki...
...smell banjo,” Béla Fleck says to his camera crew in his new documentary, “Throw Down Your Heart.” The banjo virtuoso showed clips from the film last Thursday at the New College Theatre as part of a talk presented by the Harvard College American Music Association. The film documents Fleck’s travel to the African nations of Uganda, Tanzania, The Gambia, and Mali in an effort to uncover the roots of the instrument that is now regarded as quintessentially American. He eventually encountered the akontig, an instrument fashioned...