Word: virtuoso
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...labyrinth set on its own stone Platz. Undula- ting red brick terraces hug the slope, relaxed and vaguely mock-ancient, not abrasive Disneyland replicas. As ever, Hollein succeeds in pleasing with the highly particular small space, the odd cutout corner or voluptuous semicircular marble stair. Monchengladbach has the virtuoso exuberance of a big, ambitious first novel, brimming with every story fragment and shimmery turn of phrase the author can muster...
Stewart said he selected the teacher, Joe Berton--an old friend of his--to pose as the French horn virtuoso fireballer, because "he has a comic look...
...born conductor (real name: Jeno Blau) was an unlikely candidate for a daunting task. His father, a Budapest dentist and an amateur violinist, put a fiddle in his son's hands when the child was four, and for a time Ormandy seemed destined for the life of a touring virtuoso. Stranded in America after a promised concert tour failed to materialize, he was nearly penniless when he drifted into New York City's Capitol Theater and landed a job in the pit orchestra in 1921. Within a week he was named concertmaster; three years later he made his conducting debut...
...refreshingly free of pretension. Gordon, whose own Pick Up Co. uses dialogue as well as tapes and movement in performance, manages to shift smoothly into the more formal vocabulary of classical ballet. Field, Chair and Mountain is set to a noisy concerto by the 19th century Irish piano virtuoso John Field (thus the Field in the title). In commissioning the piece, Artistic Director Mikhail Baryshnikov asked only that Gordon use a set, and Gordon came up with an inventive one. Executed with cheeky wit by Santo Loquasto, it unfolds from left to right like a Japanese screen: first a sort...
Ballerina Merrill Ashley has considerably more than a character to offer in her painstaking book. Today she is one of the glories of the New York City Ballet, a sunny allegro virtuoso. In his introduction, British Critic Clement Crisp likens her style to bravura pianism or flawless coloratura. As Ashley documents it, however, her career was not a prestissimo ascent. It took a decade of intense, disciplined practice to perfect her astounding technique and years onstage to learn how to present herself effectively. In the early pages, the author-dancer shows just how lost a youngster can be, even...