Word: virtuoso
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...Edward Albee, is an annihilating war of love-hatred fought between a middle-aged history professor and his wife, in which a younger guest couple are also savaged. Arthur Hill, as the professor, raises acting to the level of genius, and Uta Hagen, as his wife, is a virtuoso Medusa...
There is, however, one statement you make with which I take issue-that one cannot play a wind instrument. I can give a spirited (and recognizable) rendition of Drink to Me Only on the tin whistle. My encore, Handel's Scipio, is not quite so virtuoso...
...salute to Soviet music in general: along with Shostakovich came Conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Violinist David Oistrakh, Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and his wife, Singer Galina Vishnevskaya. (After Pianist Sviatoslav Richter failed to show up, forcing the refund of $11,200 worth of tickets, the Russians tersely announced that their great virtuoso was resting at home with a mild stroke.) But for all the heavy concentration of glamorous box office names, the center of attention remained Shostakovich, who often could be seen sprinting from one concert hall to another to keep up with the myriad performances of his own works...
Died. Jesse Crawford, 66, paragon of U.S. theater organists, who rose from cornetist in a Seattle orphanage to the gilded consoles of the movie palaces' mightiest Wurlitzers without formal keyboard training, earned as much as $150,000 a year as the brilliantined virtuoso of the treacle-to-thunder style he called "the violets and Wagner stuff"; of a heart attack; in Sherman Oaks, Calif...
Though Mr. Hellman's performance was afflicted with too loud a bass all the way through, we prefer to blame the piano. And if his left hand was occasionally muddy, one may say quite happily that Mr. Hellman is not a virtuoso, but a musician. The bobby-soxers who swooned at the concerts of Franz Liszt would have to go elsewhere for chills and thrills, but anyone looking for a pianist with wit, in the classic sense, should hear Mr. Hellman at the next opportunity...