Word: virtuoso
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...Violin virtuoso Louise Behrend, 87, maintains a studio for 30 students, mentoring kids more than 80 years her junior. "What you don't use, you lose," she says, explaining why her hands are nearly always hovering over her violin's fingerboard. "Playing violin is one of the few activities that use your entire being--your mind, body and emotions," she notes...
...displays of extraordinarily executed coloratura in her various diminutions where a number of short notes propel ascending or descending progressions in steps or leaps. Bartoli revels in her mastery of such decorative devices and florid ornamentation as complex scales, arpeggios, trills, gruppetti, and elegantly graduated crescendos. Bartoli is a virtuoso of fioritura. Emerging undetected out of silence, her voice creeps and swells into the warm apex of an exquisitely delivered cresendo—the audience melts under the radiance of her sonic glow...
...self-taught guitar virtuoso, the Steve Kimrock band is known for their creative improvisation. Their music fuses jazz and rock in the jam band tradition of Phish and The Grateful Dead. Tickets $25. +18. 10 p.m. The Middle East Downstairs...
...takes a master puppeteer to put this kind of thing across, and Christensen gives a virtuoso performance, tossing off perfect sentences seemingly at random, delivering them with a sneer that makes them more delicious. Surveying a windblown Sunday morning, Hugo writes, "The Hudson Valley quivers in this Sabbath-morning light; the sky is a blinding bowl of leaves and birds." Dr. Lecter couldn't have said it better...
...Tone spends the rest of the movie clenching, kneading, staring at his hands; he?s a nutso-virtuoso, an Ormandy or Orlac, conducting a symphony ... of Mur-der! It may be tough to keep from laughing at Tone?s aristo-path, and harder to wave away the plot idiocies. (How did Jack commit the murder and then track Scott into the bar and shadow his every move, so that he would be able to contact and bribe the witnesses?) Clear these hurdles and you?ll enjoy the climax, as Jack invites Carol back to his place, loosens...