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...race movie "Broken Strings," well directed by western-movie specialist Bernard B. Ray, Muse is a violin virtuoso who turns bitter when he loses use of his left hand and is reduced to teaching the instrument he can no longer play. Muse's Arthur Williams is part Svengali, part Phantom of the Opera, and a big part any adult frustrated by the seeming lack of dedication the young bring to their studies. It's the rare film, for black or white audiences, in which good people can seem heartless or insubordinate for the best reasons, and where classical music gets...
...film work, Muse was a virtuoso and a teacher too. He taught the white audience that a black man could be a person of substance, complexity and moral grandeur. That was quite an accomplishment then; it's not all that common...
...concert comprised two well-chosen pieces, Schumann’s Trio No. I in D minor, a relentlessly shape-shifting work, and Schubert’s Trio in E-flat Major, Opus 100, which was Schumann’s inspiration. Both works demand virtuoso performances from each player, but provide ample opportunities for the trio to showcase their famous ability to cooperate...
Still, even Amazon.com doesn’t boast the debut album of virtuoso Broadway tenor Craig Schulman. To hear his tender renditions of classic musical theater ballads, one must seek out a site like BroadwayGemsRecords.com...
...call Bobby McFerrin a critically acclaimed recording artist is a bland, established fact. To call him a creative, engaging performer is better. To call the vocalist a singularly talented virtuoso still cannot completely capture the music that swirls once he takes the stage, but it’s pretty close. You could boil Bobby McFerrin down to trivia: collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma, Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock. Or cite numbers: a Billboard number one single, ten grammys, twenty million copies and seemingly infinite praise or genres: jazz, pop, classical, gospel. But even the sum total of these elements could...