Word: virtuoso
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Curioso "may be well-nigh extinct, but he is as good a fellow, surely, as the virtuoso who survives almost in abundance. A curioso took care, inquired, studied, was expert. He practised curiosity...
...production, which never suffers the stagnation that plagues most film versions of opera. The prime fault of "Tales of Hoffmann" is its limitations of this imagination, in carrying along much unnecessary action and dialogue from the original. The good far outweighs the bad, however; "Tales of Hoffmann" is a virtuoso display of craftsmanship and talent, if not a true artistic triumph...
Chiropodists & Cellos. The idea was Professor Weber's. "Unless our small towns are good," he thought, "we cannot say that we have a cultured country." He wanted a town orchestra as an "outlet for the musician who doesn't want to be a virtuoso but who still wants to play"-and who otherwise doesn't have a chance "unless he is a little Heifetz." Nelson Vance Russell, president of Carroll College, was as eager as Weber, and Cymbalist Hayek finally agreed to try. Result: the Waukesha Symphony...
Fifteen months ago, Piatigorsky was fed up with the hotel, train and plane life of the touring virtuoso. It occurred to him that he had not taken a real vacation since the age of eight, when he got his first job as a cellist. At 46, he wrote his manager: "I have carried my big cello from city to city. I have never refused an interview, even to a school paper. I have seen everybody after a performance who wanted to see me. For a while, I can stop...
Cyrano de Bergerac. Jose Ferrer's virtuoso acting sparks a conscientious adaptation of the Rostand classic (TIME...