He is credited with introducing greater use of ballon, precision batterie, and a variety of virtuoso pirouettes. |
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The main theme's bristling energy was brightly complemented by virtuoso scalic passages. |
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A superbly idiomatic collaboration between a virtuoso conductor and a stellar soloist! |
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The last movement is a brilliant virtuoso movement that uses the whole range of the keyboard. |
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Astaire was a virtuoso dancer, able to convey lighthearted adventuresomeness or deep emotion when called for. |
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It's a virtuoso performance full of muted notes, plucked resonance, bristling clusters, elliptical melodies, rolled chords and tremolos. |
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Now here is a brilliant group of musicians, each a virtuoso in his own right, with strings of academical achievement behind their music. |
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The luxurious tunes are kept taut and alive, while all sections of the orchestra are on virtuoso form. |
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Having released his fourth studio album in September, the Kentuckian virtuoso continues to redefine the role of the cello in contemporary music. |
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For a couple of hours most evenings this tousle-haired young musician tickles the ivories with an eclectic but always virtuoso style. |
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It's also a virtuoso display of theatrical pyrotechnics, though acting, in the thespian sense, doesn't get much of a look in. |
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Her beautiful looks and elegant acting were matched by rich tone, expressiveness, and virtuoso technique, which can be heard in her recordings. |
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The musicians from the Laureate trio staged a virtuoso performance at a concert marking the launching of their new album on Monday. |
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Capone's usual partner was Jack McGurn, a sleek, handsome virtuoso of the tommy gun, architect of the St. Valentine's Day shootings. |
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Most contemporaries cannot identify with the pious monk and virtuoso repenter who bored his superior with six-hour monologues about his sin. |
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The 8pm concert ends with a virtuoso showpiece for clarinet and piano, Weber's Grand Duo Concertante in E flat. |
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There is some fine virtuoso writing here too, and the performers certainly rise to the occasion. |
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Not surprisingly, he is particularly attracted to a luscious surface and to virtuoso effects. |
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We turn great housekeepers into supervisors, virtuoso shelf stockers into salespeople, and managers into leaders. |
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All this music needs is a virtuoso with technique to burn and a grand array of tonal colors. |
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This is all very solemn and portentous, but it's impossible to shake the feeling this is a virtuoso example of preaching to the converted. |
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Less virtuoso jazz than indulgent jam, the movie offers a pale imitation of intellectual engagement. |
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It is six minutes of nonstop playing requiring rapid passage work, double-note trills in one hand and virtuoso octaves. |
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He made something veiled and mysterious of the central fugue, and his virtuoso pedalling in the work's later stages was impressive. |
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In general, however, the fantasia became a potpourri of themes from operas compiled by virtuoso pianists as display pieces. |
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He's a virtuoso of the narcocorrido genre, accordion-driven, blood-lusting ballads that lionize the exploits of Mexico's drug cartels. |
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He's an extraordinary fiddle player with a virtuoso technique married to musical mind that won't take anything for granted. |
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Johan becomes a virtuoso of classical music, a driving force who cannot be ignored. |
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It is not enough to see the painting as a virtuoso manipulation of historical styles. |
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This virtuoso short story collection is emotionally uncompromising and stylistically daring. |
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It also excludes music for virtuoso display in the large concert hall, even though only a few instruments may be involved. |
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The next week they toured Europe with a Bartok third quartet that had virtuoso fiddlers agape with admiration. |
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Is it a study, which is unusual for copper, or an exercise in virtuoso brushwork, for which it seems unusually small? |
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The title makes obvious reference to basketball, a sport of virtuoso movement. |
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Walker began his musical career as a virtuoso pianist, with composing and teaching work coming later. |
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Something else they share is that neither is recognised as a virtuoso showpiece for the pianist. |
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We dined by oil lamp under a thatched cabana and listened agog to virtuoso folk musicians. |
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The hyperinstrument project is designed to use technology to give extra power and finesse to virtuoso performers. |
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He was a virtuoso fabulist, whose literary hoaxes and counterfeits verged on pastiche. |
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The virtuoso has further plans to explore ways of blending flamenco with classical music. |
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A virtuoso pianist, he taps not only Cuban rumba and yanqui jazz but digs deeper into his African heritage. |
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Nils Petter Molvaer, an electric jazz player is a virtuoso trumpet player who endows his music with exotic elements and broken rhythms. |
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This ranks among the most spectacular music of its age, with its thrilling textures and virtuoso vocal lines. |
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The change in tone is unwelcome and does much to undermine many of the virtuoso moments that have come before. |
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The virtuoso tour de force begins with a flourish, the piano arpeggios answered by bold chords in the woodwind trio. |
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Here, virtuoso Jacques Zoon makes Mozart's music sound as fresh and warm as a doe sipping from a clear mountain spring. |
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I heard a nightjar, and our nightingale gave us a virtuoso performance but still, no cuckoo. |
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Such virtuoso, highly finished bronze groups can be seen as the last gasp of the great tradition of Florentine art. |
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With them, the concerto moves from the virtuoso star turn to distinguished collaboration. |
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The band is stirring both critical and popular acclaim for their soulful, virtuoso playing and thrilling live performances. |
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A frieze of colored glass, mirror glass, and decorative leading ran around the room, culminating in the virtuoso display of the double doors. |
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The sensuousness of the metal is reinforced and enhanced by his decorative curvilinear line that creates a virtuoso effect of dramatic splendour. |
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Given that this isn't even his field, it was a virtuoso performance of clarity and deduction from first principles. |
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Gluck learnt to play the violin and keyboard instruments, but his later appearances as a virtuoso were on the glass harmonica. |
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Abandoning a promising career as a virtuoso pianist, he became an influential teacher. |
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He has been trained in Belgium and has mastered the virtuoso balancing act his employment requires. |
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The slow movement is lovely, and the finale is treated as a virtuoso showpiece. |
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The paradoxes of citation and prosopopoeia common to the virtuoso and to the writer are threads that run through chapters six through eight. |
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Not unexpectedly, this building displays John Wardle's architectural dexterity and virtuoso skill. |
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The virtuoso pianist has not spoken since being found soaking wet, dressed in a dinner suit, in Sheerness, Kent, 11 weeks ago. |
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This virtuoso new novel is a real contender for the Women's Prize. |
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Blanchett achieves this through a level of nuanced physical and aural orchestration that brims over with virtuoso counterpoint. |
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Anthony Garcia travelled to Mexico in 1994 where he studied with several maestros, participated in master classes with virtuoso guitarists and received many awards. |
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The composer's upbeat arrangements, jazzy and virtuoso, added a convincing tango beat to some of the Yiddish songs not originally conceived as such. |
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He's probably the only recorder virtuoso to use vibrato to signify irony. |
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One could find parts of a symphony and an overture of German or Austrian origin along with Italian opera selections, quadrilles, and virtuoso items. |
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Is language or symbolic representation the crucial demarcator of the human, and what have humans sacrificed in order to acquire these virtuoso accomplishments? |
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The scene of the Titianesque Veronese's Resurrection is confused by the artist's virtuoso tricks of perspective, foreshortening and flying draperies. |
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The first concert for the year, on March 26, features virtuoso pianist Harold Brown, who has travelled the world performing solo recitals and playing with symphony orchestras. |
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Notable live highlights were show-stopping performances from the likes of Courtney Pine, who amazed with his virtuoso display of circular breathing. |
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A splendid conclusion to the CD is provided by the Op 16 Capriccio, where the opening launches a virtuoso piling up of passagework that has irresistible panache. |
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The present compilation combines aspects of both the flamboyant virtuoso and the profound spiritualist that together formed the personality of Franz Liszt. |
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Russell Crowe may have turned in a virtuoso performance, accurately capturing the confusion and paranoia of being in mental turmoil, but let's face it, so what. |
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Complex solo lute and keyboard works became virtuoso showpieces, culminating in the brilliant sets of variations in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book. |
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It was copied by Rembrandt, Rubens, and Sandrart, all of whom responded to the painting as an image of the noble virtuoso as well as to its formal distinction. |
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A century before Mozart, the virtuoso violinist and composer Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber was appointed to the music staff of the archiepiscopal court of Salzburg. |
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The more research she did, the more fascinated she became with the complicated 18th century child prodigy, virtuoso, hyper-prolific genius and failed priest! |
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He uses his virtuoso calligraphic skills to create works that call up everything from illuminated manuscripts to German Fraktur wedding certificates. |
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The execution of these scenes in scagliola is a triumph, but it is scarcely less astonishing than Mr Kennedy's virtuoso inscription around the rim. |
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It was a show of epic length with an overstocked lake of new members, all virtuoso players who blazed through the hits. |
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He is a virtuoso of action, as he demonstrated in his very first film, The Surgarland Express. |
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The second disc spotlights the virtuoso performers of the Peronist years, when the bandoneon players Anibal Troilo and Astor Piazzolla reigned supreme. |
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What results is a kind of mashup concert, a virtuoso mixed-media DJ set tuned to a keen emotional pitch. |
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The art of ornamentation may be said to have been at its zenith between the 16th and 19th centuries, when it was regarded as essential to virtuoso technique. |
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Small of hand as he was broad of mind, Schnabel was the antipode of the brilliant virtuoso who tosses off cascades of notes with unerring accuracy. |
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These virtuoso transcriptions of Gershwin songs should hold no terrors for lovers of romantic repertoire, though the writing is full of subtle underminings. |
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In between, there are virtuoso showpieces, hilarious buffo send-ups, and elegiac romances, all enhanced by imaginative instrumental accompaniments. |
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Unlike the other Scottish Colourists, he was initially less influenced by Post-Impressionism and Fauvism than by the tradition of virtuoso brushwork stemming from Manet. |
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Since his death an attempt has been made to minimise his importance and even to deny that he is a real poet and to describe him as a mere virtuoso and skilful metricist. |
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A guitar virtuoso, heir to the lutenists of old, friend of Beethoven and Rossini, Giuliani composed concerti, chamber music, and songs, as well as guitar solos and duets. |
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In between the Berlioz offerings came Beethoven's Violin Concerto, enthrallingly played by young Ukrainian virtuoso Valeriy Sokolov. |
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Similar to a Yiddish shnorrer, a Pumpgenie is a virtuoso in the art of tapping all acquaintances for money and never paying it back. |
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Vivaldi is reputed to have been a first rate violinist, his published scores springboards for flights of wild virtuoso extemporization. |
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The band, below, was founded back in the 1960s by Mingiedi, a virtuoso of the likembe. |
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After 1955, virtuoso Astor Piazzolla popularized Nuevo tango, a subtler and more intellectual trend for the genre. |
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Ancidetemi pur, variations by virtuoso lutenist Kapsberger, were performed on the larger chitarrone. |
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Franz Liszt was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, teacher and Franciscan tertiary. |
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Samuel Ramey used to interpolate a spectacular virtuoso cadenza at the end of the song. |
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Wagner's wife Cosima, the daughter of Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer Franz Liszt, was among the audience. |
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During the Classical era, some virtuoso soloists would improvise the cadenza sections of a concerto. |
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The symphony came into its own as a musical form, and the concerto was developed as a vehicle for displays of virtuoso playing skill. |
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Ricky Scaggs is also a virtuoso of sorts, playing both traditional and neotraditional bluegrass. |
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The virtuoso playing of Bert Jansch was widely influential, and the range of instruments was widened by the Incredible String Band. |
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Once again the Peruvian tenor is clearly at the top of his game as he tackles an exhausting array of virtuoso arias and scenas. |
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With its perambulatory obligato horns and virtuoso orchestral writing Imagin'd Corners is in every way a showpiece calling card. |
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And the exhibition disregarded the art-craft duality to include Josiah McElheny's virtuoso installation of conceptual glasswork. |
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Well, that was a virtuoso performance by Chris Christie yesterday. |
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He spent whole days and nights on his knees praying, yet he could have won Strictly Come Dancing with his virtuoso Brazilian tango, the maxixe. |
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Though a capable rather than a virtuoso player he won the praise of the leading conductor Hans Richter, for whom he played at Covent Garden. |
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Among the guests slated to appear are 60's pop superstar Trini Lopez, comedian Shelley Berman, film star Terry Moore, and virtuoso guitarist Del Casher. |
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Catherine is accompanied by early music expert David Miller who plays the vihuela and Led Zeppelin's favourite oud virtuoso the Lebanese Abdul Salam Kheir. |
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The film is topped off by a virtuoso machine-gun montage where the three expert voices, both interdictory and sympathetic, literally cancel each other out. |
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It isn't that Adams is a virtuoso of many talents. It's that he has a combination of many often mediocre abilities that combine to create a formidable talent stack. |
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Such is the content of the Prince in which the writer, from the princehood of his imagination, offers advice on how to conquer and rule like a true Machiavellian virtuoso. |
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She was surrounded by excellent players, such as explosive drummer Dave Walsh, virtuoso tenorist Paul Booth and the exceptional bassist Zoltan Dekany. |
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He was a mouse-wheel virtuoso, scrolling and zooming with ease. |
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This dynamic group features flamenco guitar virtuoso Michael Hauser, guitarist Dan Elsen, flutist and veteran jazz artist Chuck Armstrong, and bass player Tom Dades. |
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Virtuoso piper Jarlath has fused world music and traditional music to create a mesmeric and powerful sound. |
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