Word: virtuoso
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...shame that Carl Schlaikjer did not receive credit in the program listings for his oboe d'amore playing. It was a display of virtuoso caliber remarkable for its sensitivity of phrase and quality of tone. The instrument's sound filled the church in beautiful counterpoint to the alto-tenor duet...
Married. Fou Ts'Ong, 39, concert pianist who in 1959 defected to the West from Communist China; and Hijong Hyun, 29, daughter of South Korea's Ambassador to Morocco; he for the second time (after an earlier marriage to Zamira Menuhin, daughter of Violin Virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin), she for the first; in London...
...friend once said, "I've always liked your anger, trusted it." From girlhood, Hellman went for the impulsive gesture, skipping school to trail shady relatives around New Orleans, insulting proper ones. The writing often recalls Gertrude Stein's stonier prose - obdurate, flat and mannered. Hellman is a virtuoso of ellipsis, a quality that doubtless served her well as a dramatist. In Pentimento she seems to take pride in leaving out connectives, or capping a half-told tale with a brief coda, unrelated except for the faintest resonance of tone...
...future. Aside from her practical experience, her scholarly studies on the Renaissance include a chapter on "Machiavelli: The Art of Politics and the Paradox of Power" in a collection of essays honoring her father. Defining the theories of the 15th century master of Florentine intrigue she wrote: "The virtuoso of power ... can be judged by the work he produces. It is good or bad according to its effectiveness, and what renders it noteworthy and successful may be ascribed to the qualities, actions and policies he has brought into play...
...paintings are pervaded by a subtly indicated force, a sense of form working under confinement at several points above normal pressure. That Kelly is a most able draftsman can easily be seen from his pencil drawings of leaves and fruit - but in the abstract mode, he draws like a virtuoso. The decisiveness of the arc in Blue Curve, V, 1973, is (when seen in its large, actual size - it is about 6 ft. by 9 ft.) breathtaking; no other line, one senses, could have contained the buoyant, intrusive swell of the blue with such steely grace, or struck such...