Word: virtuoso
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...opening concert was almost more a tribute to the Orchestra than it was to Munch. It proved beyond question that the Boston Symphony Orchestra lies gleaming in its case like a fine musical instrument, ready to sing in the hands of any great virtuoso. It passes from Koussevitzky to Munch, each with a technique of his own; yet the latent quality of the instrument remains unchanged...
...that kind of tournament, with high winds and rain confounding the form charts. Bull-shouldered Bob ("Skee") Riegel, the 1947 champ, upset Toledo's golfing virtuoso and tourney favorite, Frank Stranahan, before getting belted unceremoniously out-of action himself. Willie Turnesa, youngest of golf's seven famed Turnesa brothers and defending amateur champion, got his in the semifinals...
...virtuoso performance. Stryker thundered and whispered. He banged the jury rail, sketched imaginary portraits, nourished a roll of microfilm until it snapped into a tangled mess. He invoked Almighty God, motherhood and the American flag. He accused the FBI of "impairing" defense witnesses. He pronounced the Government's star witness, Whittaker Chambers, a "traitor, thief, liar, perjurer, enemy of his country and a hypocrite," likened him to a coiled scorpion and a germ in a bottle of milk...
...taken seriously, then how is he to be taken? He is to be taken, quite simply, for what he is; to wit, he is to be taken for a vastly engaging virtuoso of American prose style who is full of ideas, most of them stimulating and some of them convincing, on religion, psychology, music, letters, politics, education, the South, women, and sundry related topics. His ideas are often largely nonsensical. But they are never completely so. You may be reading through the wildest moments of a polemic against democracy, wondering if he is ever going to stop jabbering, when suddenly...
...Koussevitzky's 25th year with the Boston Symphony. The result was an intense, sincere performance, the kind that happens on the rare occasions when an orchestra players over its head. But no such playing would have been possible without the years spent by Koussevitzky in perfecting and refining the virtuoso orchestra which he inherited in 1923 from Pierre Monteux...