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Despite their longstanding friendship, Violin Virtuoso Itzhak Perlman and famed Flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal have never played in concert together. But between rehearsals at Carnegie Hall for their separate performances on Gala of Stars, a public-television special airing this month, the two finally attempted a duet-a four-handed Flight of the Bumblebee on Rampal's 14-karat flute. "He's not too bad," said Rampal of his pal, though the performance was "not for musical purposes." Said Perlman, who just won four Grammy Awards: "We could have done better if I had been thinner. Then...
...kind of virtuoso performance Reagan had demonstrated his mastery of in the campaign: it was low-keyed, somber in places, and direct, as he called "for an era of national renewal," while warning that many of the problems besetting the nation, especially inflation, would not yield to quick solutions...
...while waiting for help, Ma decided to brush up on his Haydn. The dedication is typical for Ma; so is the hectic schedule (125 concerts this year) and the cheerful indifference to adversity. The silky beauty of his playing awes not only critics but other musicians. Isaac Stern, the virtuoso of violin and musical politics, says: "Ma is one of the greatest instrumental talents alive...
...Cooder: Borderline (Warner Bros.). Restored Tex-Mex, revised rock and resurrected blues by an easygoing-and funny-virtuoso...
...extraordinarily allusive imagination: forever unpicking its objects, forever recombining them. As the poet-critic Carter Ratcliff remarks at the opening of his brilliant catalogue essay on Cornell as a puritan, he was "a virtuoso of fragments, a maestro of absences. Each of his objects ... is the emblem of a presence too elusive or too vast to be enclosed in a box." The extreme examples of this were, perhaps, Cornell's cosmogonies-the "Soap Bubble Sets," made in the '40s and early '50s. The metaphor on which they rely is simple, even banal: a likeness between soap bubbles...