Word: virtuoso
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sisters marry into uppermost Renaissance Italian society. Plain, naive Beatrice gets the ruler of Milan, while precocious (and luscious) Isabella winds up with a lesser man. In this gold brocade world, where every gesture echoes in quadruple?as politics, family, sex and art?only the virtuosos survive, and leading the dance is the greatest virtuoso of them all, Da Vinci...
Fortunately this is not the case. West’s departure liberated, rather than doomed AAAS; its scholarship has progressed not in spite of, but precisely because of his absence. West is a virtuoso indeed—in every pursuit (film acting, political consulting, autobiographical writing, musical recording) but serious research and analysis. Far from providing the AAAS clout, West stifled its real scholastic accomplishments with the oversize presence of a top-notch showman...
Friday, Nov. 18Wu Man and Ensemble. Wu Man, a virtuoso pipe player, performs Chen Yi’s spellbinding opus “Ancient Dances” with his lute-like instrument accompanied by percussionists. Images of ancient Chinese calligraphy will be projected in the background, creating a multimedia event. Sanders Theatre. 8 p.m. Tickets available through the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. $38/28/23/20. (KAF)Scissorfight. Boston-based punk rockers Scissorfight, whose vocalist, Ironlung, once dislocated his shoulder in the middle of a show and spent the remainder of said show attempting to punch it back into place, team...
...juvenile song than Knockers ("You're devilish and dirty/ They say you're pushing 30"), but one senses that the Darkness, which is about as dark as Richard Simmons and just as partial to spandex, could turn around and top it. The band is proud of its bad jokes, virtuoso guitar playing and the epic British shriek of singer Justin Hawkins, and with songs like Bald, the greatest track ever written about the scourge of male pattern baldness, it deserves...
...evening’s program included an oration by Dean of the Harvard College Benedict H. Gross ’71 and a showcase of the virtuoso skill of piano soloist Wei-Jen Yuan ’06, before finally allowing the orchestra to come into their own. Under the direction of Dr. James Yannatos, the HRO passionately performed popular but stylistically diverse orchestra favorites, including Aaron Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait,” Tchaikovsky’s “Piano Concerto No. 1,” and Igor Stravinsky?...