Word: virtuoso
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...night's heroics were performed by a tiny sergeant of the Army's Strolling Strings. Without flinching, she fiddled a mere two feet from the ear of Violin Virtuoso Isaac Stern, who would play Beethoven later...
...finally arrived? Not really. Simply a group of avant-gardists greeting the new year with a public television, cross-Atlantic extravaganza dedicated to George Orwell, author of Nineteen Eighty-Four and "the first media prophet and philosopher." That's the view of the program's creator, Video Virtuoso Nam June Paik, 51, who intends to show television as a "liberating" force, not fraught with the "negative aspects" emphasized by Orwell. To this end, he has enlisted the talents of a curious assortment of the old-and new-wave garde, including Performance Artist Laurie Anderson, 36, Composers John Cage...
...hadn't been for senior goalie Cheryl Tate's virtuoso performance, the score would have been even more lopsided. The co-captain made 42 saves, 21 in the second period...
...year later, Marsalis has issued a new jazz album, Think of One (title track courtesy Thelonious Monk), and, concurrently, a piece of classical virtuosity, three trumpet concertos (Haydn, Leopold Mozart and Hummel). And Marsalis just seems to be warming up. Remarked the classical trumpet virtuoso Maurice André": "He is potentially the greatest trumpeter of all time...
...first glance recalls Tharp's triumphant Push Comes to Shove (1976); that ballet began with Baryshnikov's sidling out in a vaguely Slavic tunic and a sassy bowler hat. No doubt about it, Tharp understands this Russian-American firebird better than any other choreographer. She sees the virtuoso and the man in exile, and above all she understands the star power...