Word: virtuoso
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...MOST difficult tests of a good orchestra and its conductor is the accompaniment of a virtuoso soloist in a concerto. The weaknesses of the group are too often highlighted by playing with an outstanding musician, and its sloppy playing can detract from the best solo instrumentalist's performance...
...prerecorded tapes. Things perk up considerably with the first picture, "The Gnome," a succession of subterranean squeaks and giggles that resemble a band of tipsy trolls frolicking beneath Frankenstein's castle. As for "The Old Castle," it sounds like a caravan of balalaika players pursuing an Arabian shawm virtuoso...
...ones, make obvious preliminaries to leaps. He simply floats into confounding feats of acrobatics and then comes to still, collected repose. He forces the eye into a double take: did that man actually do that just now? Dance Critic Walter Terry says that "Baryshnikov is probably the most dazzling virtuoso we have seen. He is more spectacular in sheer technique than any other male dancer. What he actually does, no one can really define. His steps are in no ballet dictionary. And he seems to be able to stop in mid-air and sit in space." Patricia Wilde, who teaches...
...trying to outdo the others. Or they might do what Lynn Chang. Yo Yo Ma and Richard Kogan did last Saturday night during their performance of Beethoven's Concerto for Violin. Cello, and Piano. The "Triple Concerto" rarely appears on concert programs because of the difficulty of finding three virtuoso musicians willing to share the spotlight. But none of the three Harvard undergrads playing with the Bach Society tried to upstage the others. Instead they played with a keen awareness of each other's musical statements, matching and blending their expression and style into one voice...
Pianist Van Cliburn, 40, who has created some waves in the music world, reached a high-water mark last week. Before leaving his hotel suite for an evening concert in Roanoke, Va., the virtuoso began running water for a bath. While the tub filled, Cliburn went to his piano, started practicing Brahms' Second Piano Concerto, and quickly tuned out the rest of the world. In a dining room below, guests could not hear the maestro's music, but they were soon aware of the bath water that had flooded the pianist's quarters and started seeping across...