Word: virtuoso
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...classical-music whiz kids are as common as laid-off dotcom executives, but Hilary Hahn is no robotic virtuoso. Her tone is lean and sweet, her interpretations smart and unshowy; even the hardest-boiled prodigy-hating critics in the business go all mushy when she plays Bach, Beethoven, Barber and Bernstein. Wait, there's more. She has lovely, wide-set eyes and the figure of a ballerina. And she writes the liner notes for her CDs, as well as an online journal, hilaryhahn.com illustrated with photos that she takes herself. Next to her, even Haley Joel Osment looks like...
...that Bonds will say so. In a virtuoso display of athlete-speak, Bonds is doing everything possible to talk down his achievements and keep the media crush at bay. "I'm not even thinking about Mark McGwire," he said before a weekend series against Mac's St. Louis Cardinals. Other variations on the theme include "You can get hit by a truck tomorrow" and "I've had hot streaks before...
DIED. JOHN HARTFORD, 63, quirky, sociable bluegrass banjo virtuoso, fiddler and guitarist, who penned the much recorded country song Gentle on My Mind, which won him two Grammy Awards and became a Top 40 hit for Glen Campbell; of cancer; in Nashville, Tenn. Beloved for spirited performances at bluegrass festivals and for throwing picking parties at his home, Hartford collaborated with the Byrds and Benny Martin but also recorded some 40 of his own albums, most recently appearing on the sound track for the film O Brother, Where Art Thou...
...trio is the biggest thing behind a budding bluegrass revival. Their sound? Something like Dueling Banjos as remixed by Fatboy Slim. This cultural collision of the sweetest kind is the handiwork of guitarist Sean Watkins, 24; his sister Sara, 19, a violinist; and mandolin player Chris Thile, 20. Their virtuoso flights of whimsy give the music's Celtic roots a postmodern jangle of complexity. Says Watkins: "We want to bring the acoustic message to youth right...
...This was a really important moment in the last 25 years, because suddenly imagination was the only obstacle to overcome. Anyone could play those four chords. That's why hip-hop has taken off, because you don't have to be a virtuoso, you just have to have great taste. You have to be able to hear it more than you have to be able to play it. Suddenly, the grasp becomes more important than the reach. Suddenly, a bunch of kids from the north side of Dublin who would never have had a chance to get on the musical...