Word: virtuoso
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...leaders who turned on him. Most of all, however, Sihanouk will be remembered as a politician who tried to keep his country out of trouble by sheer grandstanding. Detractors loved to speak of his tightrope act; in fact, says Far East Affairs Specialist Willard Hanna, it was "more a virtuoso professional performance of juggling Roman candles while spinning by his teeth from a flying trapeze...
...Virtuoso Mandolin...
Already Bill's virtuoso mandolin style was being noticed. It wasn't long before the brothers decided to go their separate ways, Charlie and Bill starting their own groups, the Kentucky Pardners and the Blue Grass Boys, respectively. From Bill's desire to honor his home state originated the name that gradually became associated with the music played by a number of groups which resemble Bill Monroe's in instrumentation and style...
...Mirza made no attempt to simplify his usual playing style to suit his culturally-distant American audience last Saturday, and his unassuming honesty-coupled with his virtuoso elegance-was received with great enthusiasm. The small size of the audience permitted a certain intimacy which provided the atmosphere in which Indian music was meant to be heard. The Brandeis listeners probably sensed little of the Hindustani culture in which the raga is firmly rooted, but they undoubtedly came away with a feeling for the romantic delicacy of Indian music well-performed...
Died. Boris Kroyt, 72, Russian-born viola virtuoso and for 31 years a pillar of the Budapest String Quartet; of cancer; in Manhattan. Ranked with Paul Hindemith and William Primrose as one of the viola's great masters, Kroyt joined the Budapest in 1936, and two years later the brilliant foursome traveled to the U.S., where their concerts and records raised chamber music to new heights of popularity. Their repertoire ran from the classical Beethoven and Brahms to moderns like Bartók and Milhaud, all played with a passion and Toscanini-like elegance that substantiated their preeminence...