Word: virtuoso
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...audience gasped a little, and one dance even made something humorous of the situation, but it was apparent that women, dressed or undressed, play only a peripheral role in this show. Les Ballets Africains is primarily a man's affair, an exhibition of superbly masculine dances and rhythms. Virtuoso leaps, cartwheels, and spins follow in profusion, until the proceedings resemble some sort of idealized athletic event. Such is the spontaneity of the dancers that repetitions of these vigorous movements always seems fresh, newly conceived creations...
...hustler that only the biggest man in pool stands between him and the top. Minnesota Fats makes his headquarters at Bennington's in Chicago. In Eddie's world, Fats's name is spoken with reverence. Huge, lardy and gross. Fats plays with the grace of a virtuoso. Eddie takes him on, and for 40 hours they match their delicate skills. At one point Eddie is $18,000 ahead, and the great Fats seems to have met his master. But it is Eddie who cracks, turns to the bottle for help, and takes the pool beating...
When Antonio Stradivari died in Cremona, Italy in 1737, he left behind him an estimated 1,100 masterfully constructed stringed instruments, of which perhaps 600 that have any claim to his name exist today. Every violin virtuoso, concertmaster and well-heeled amateur in the world has wanted to own an instrument by the famed Cremona fiddlemaker. The supply, while never plentiful, has surprisingly never been exhausted, and last week the proceedings of a Swiss court pointed to the reason why: buyers of supposed Strads and other instruments with great Cremona labels have been the victims of a traffic in fake...
Andrew Imbrie: Third String Quartet (Walden String Quartet; Contemporary Records). A sinewy, inventive, virtuoso work by one of the most gifted of the younger U.S. composers. Bold of theme, rawly colorful in its sonorities, it is both an abrasive and a stimulating musical tonic...
...since their rules forbid them to be out at night or up after 10 p.m., they played most concerts in Catholic schools or colleges where they spent the night). Capitol's new record, frankly released "experimentally," reveals none of the Seattle-reared sisters (nees Zeyen) as a real virtuoso, but Sister Anthony, before taking the veil, played for three seasons in the Los Angeles Philharmonic, one year in the 20th Century-Fox studio orchestra, and Sister Mark holds a Ph.D. from the Eastman School of Music. Few trios now performing can surpass their exquisitely unified ensemble playing. Tempi they...