Word: virtuoso
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...music is rendered in virtuoso manner by Martin J. Faigel, and Chester W. Hartman has done a remarkable job as music director. The stage direction is by veteran Joan S. Mickelson, with Victor N. Claman producing the show...
...last protest must be added: the play is damnably long. Long, not in the sense that it bores one to sleep, but simply that at the end of three hours one wonders whether all the words have added up to more than virtuoso verbosity...
...first, on the 18th century's musical scene, Christoph Willibald Gluck seemed just another run-of-the-court opera composer. The threadbare romantic plots he used served mainly to give virtuoso singers something on which to string their purple-beaded arias. But Gluck became known as a daring revolutionary in 1762 when he wrote Orfeo ed Euridice, a work free of such "disfiguring abuses" as stock romantic situations and metaphorical arias. For years, he preached the virtues of Greek naturalism. After Gluck's death, better composers than he utilized some of his reforms, while Orfeo all but disappeared...
...work should be constructed, is distressed by the work of many young abstract expressionists, once grabbed an ink-stained blotter, shoved it at a visitor and snapped, "Jackson Pollock." But Picasso's latest work shows that he has lost none of his amazing powers of draftsmanship nor his virtuoso ability to improvise on a theme until it is obedient to his will. With age, Picasso becomes more impatient. His own limitations-an insensibility to the sensual qualities of paint, a violence and haste in execution-stand forth more clearly. In Woman by a Window, Picasso, who uses boat paint...
Carrying his priceless Stradivarius cello* over his head like a toy. strapping (6 ft. 3½ in.) Virtuoso Gregor Piatigorsky threaded his way through the string section of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony one evening last week, settled himself into the soloist's chair by the podium and launched into a Cello Concerto newly written for him by his old friend Sir William Walton. If the piece itself seemed to ramble like a sun-warmed cow through sprawling masses of musical foliage. Piatigorsky's playing of it was a marvel of taste and tone. Under his sensitive hands...