Virtuosity will out — and always in small, ordinary gestures.
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Would this crowd be cheering virtuosity if it was Phish?
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It's depressing, but that inspirational virtuosity will always be necessary.
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Though the dancing features no academic virtuosity, it's often forceful.
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It's almost traditional virtuosity, which Liszt also has, and Rachmaninoff.
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In Ayón's hands, the process became one of staggering virtuosity.
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Lee's virtuosity never flags, and it also never gets wearying.
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And Mr. Zimmermann aced that cadenza, a true test of virtuosity.
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This year's cohort has certainly picked up its predecessors' empirical virtuosity.
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They may not have matched Cohen's lyrical intricacy or Prince's virtuosity.
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The music isn't anti-virtuosic; it's just not interested in virtuosity.
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Hughes never quite reciprocated Locke's adoration, but his virtuosity was magnetic.
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We are working against the beautiful virtuosity of a dancing body.
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Bach's own virtuosity translates to a different effect on the mandolin.
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"We're surrounded by people regularly enacting acts of virtuosity," she said.
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Each time, we knew as he had: His virtuosity said things.
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And along the way, she never lost an ounce of virtuosity.
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The intellectual virtuosity on display is somehow both ostentatious and casual.
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ZACHARY WOOLFE 'SUR INCISES' "I like virtuosity not for the sake of virtuosity but because it's dangerous," Mr. Boulez said before conducting a performance of his fiery chamber work "Sur Incises" at Zankel Hall in 2008.
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Just as Paganini explored 19th-century violin virtuosity in his solo caprices, the composers who wrote these pieces for Ms. Koh explored the "meaning of virtuosity in the 21st century," as she explained in a program note.
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It was never enough for Mauer's virtuosity to shine on its own.
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CORINNA da FONSECA-WOLLHEIM Then clearly displays of sheer virtuosity excite you.
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Two centuries later, the role of virtuosity in music has become muddled.
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No Idle Hands is also a demonstration of tramp art's astounding virtuosity.
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The term is a familiar one in the annals of super-virtuosity.
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His white-hot virtuosity is tempered by coolheaded thinking and lyrical sensitivity.
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There is an owl-like virtuosity to it, silent, unassuming—but deadly.
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The first part of a song lets them show off their virtuosity.
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His virtuosity is fluid, natural; it's working in service of emotions and stories.
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He disparaged the Spaniard for a virtuosity not yoked to a consistent passion.
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For all his virtuosity, he has not pushed literature toward any formal frontiers.
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"There's a certain bold virtuosity to it," says Steve Henry, the gallery's director.
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This lightning shift between registers is just one example of Bennett's relaxed virtuosity.
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This is what virtuosity should do — leave you knock-kneed, perform the unthinkable.
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In "Chapter 3," the violence has been supercharged, and so has the virtuosity.
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This is a really very beautiful, very subtle object, sculpted with great virtuosity.
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These vocal bursts could easily come across as simply effects, or empty virtuosity.
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It wasn't just that he sustained his theatrical virtuosity that was so exhilarating.
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The opening 20 minutes register Ms. Bigelow's virtuosity as a choreographer of chaos.
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In live takes around a microphone or two, rural pride meets casual virtuosity.
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It lacks the instrumental virtuosity and stylistic experimentation that would define Prince's later work.
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What the show doesn't let us see is the first stages of this virtuosity.
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Mr. Hamelin conveyed its craziness while playing with scintillating colors and stress-free virtuosity.
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In contrast to the acting, the non-virtuosity of the singing hindered the production.
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Not because of lack of virtuosity, but because they're emotionally taxing, with little relief.
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You might assume that they'd be all impersonal grandeur and showy virtuosity, but no.
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Despite his virtuosity, his dancing has nothing adult about it: it's lightweight and flashy.
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An entire day of all that prowess, energy and virtuosity would have been astounding.
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Where Tchaikovsky's concerto dazzles with surface-level pyrotechnics, Mozart's calls for more understated virtuosity.
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In the first movie, Ms. Streep luxuriated in a mode other than technical virtuosity.
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The virtuosity sets in early, soon to be followed by the infectious dance tune.
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"Maria by Callas" is crushing; "Amazing Grace," a teeming potluck of virtuosity and heart.
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The amazing virtuosity of this singular year is matched only by an equally towering ego.
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Is it virtuosity, a deep knowledge of musical history, or just getting along with them?
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Siddiqui and Khan are now known commodities, sliding back into their roles with veteran virtuosity.
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One technical glitch on Tuesday set into relief the general virtuosity of timing and coordination.
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That was just one of many displays of virtuosity from an orchestra of remarkable depth.
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All spitfire energy, she showed a remarkable virtuosity that still left room for aching lyricism.
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Fugazi was never a band about virtuosity, exactly, but it wasn't opposed to the principle.
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It was a way of almost healing the orchestra from their own virtuosity and excellence.
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And yet he gives us real dance virtuosity and ensembles containing speed and elaborate geometry.
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The virtuosity really steps up in the third variation, first in violin, then in gamba.
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The experimental dance of that era, embodied in those pieces, set itself up against virtuosity.
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This was musicianly virtuosity, like the cadenza of a master violinist spinning out gleaming tone.
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For decades, the "Chicago brass" has been prized for its majesty, virtuosity and sheer power.
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The timepiece is intended to combine the house's luxury cowboy image with Swiss watchmaking virtuosity.
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And it's at this crucial time when virtuosity in a musical instrument can be attained.
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Piano transcriptions can be overly scholarly and serve as a pretext to showcase the performer's virtuosity.
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I'm still that way but I enjoy virtuosity as well, as long as it's portrayed properly.
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At this stage, I found the virtuosity with which Mr Avent knocked down possible solutions disquieting.
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Critic's Notebook You know that ballet is an art famous for beauty, musicality, virtuosity and expressiveness.
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The Bad Seeds are not a band that has ever treated virtuosity as its own reward.
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Most of the panels have only one character in them, and are subtle in their virtuosity.
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It includes lyricism and virtuosity, striking effects of through-the-body lines and symmetrical ensemble geometry.
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Her virtuosity is on full display in Nkame's 2308 prints — particularly the opener, "La Cena" (212).
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Rather, the virtuosity of his control conveyed a tension between expressiveness and reticence, assertion and discipline.
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Academy voters sometimes use technical virtuosity — as well as genre and "seriousness" — to rationalize their choices.
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Mr. Gordon has a virtuosity that's unforced yet polished; there's nobility, but it isn't old-fashioned.
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The virtuosity of ballet when combined with another virtuosic artist, it&aposs a really good match.
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Mr. Trifonov played with an uncanny balance of tenderness and flair: Call it soft-spoken virtuosity.
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Ms. Kopatchinskaja, who combines blazing virtuosity with ferocious instincts, did not disappoint in Prokofiev's Second Concerto.
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The choreography, like the dancers themselves, lacks the virtuosity that makes professionals so thrilling to watch.
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Even Mr. de Maistre's virtuosity could not lift them to a level above trivial, perky showpieces.
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There were times I grinned — literally grinned — at their virtuosity, without my heart ever truly quickening.
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Performed live, his songs morph into extended jams that spotlight Bruner and his trio's remarkable virtuosity.
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We're starting to see this proliferation of technique and virtuosity in the performance of these instruments.
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Despite Mr. Yen's impressive physical virtuosity, his stoic, often humorless presence tends to neutralize the emotional temperature.
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I can't help but marvel at the sheer virtuosity that these musicians bring to such mundane things.
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Prince's virtuosity was uncontestable, and perhaps nobody else could have played those parts in the same way.
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It was his online survey, conducted in 2009, that generated the first systematic overview of linguistic virtuosity.
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But what's the threshold for virtuosity, and how do you even isolate it from depth and insight?
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"Absolute Zero," in contrast, doubles down on piano virtuosity and musical intricacies: odd meters, polytonality, bustling counterpoint.
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Our reviewer, Jaimy Gordon, praised the "fire, virtuosity and spiritual imagination with which Morgan conjures" her subjects.
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"It's virtuosity and a big workshop," said Susanne Titz, director of the Abteiberg Museum in Mönchengladbach, Germany.
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Mr. Tao showed various ways in which composers have explored virtuosity at the piano over three centuries.
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What is obvious is how Ms. Okpokwasili's virtuosity — she can't tame her magnificence — overshadows the other performers.
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A performer of indisputable virtuosity and bite, Ms. Pinkins has seen perhaps more tumult offstage than on.
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All slack flow without definition and drive, the dancing provides no match or counterbalance for Gandini's virtuosity.
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Yet her virtuosity is mysterious, considering that she has only ever seen haute couture in a museum.
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But the most arresting moment, and a taste of Ms. Devieilhe's virtuosity, came without words or accompaniment.
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He will leverage his global vision and unique aesthetic virtuosity in further building an iconic French maison.
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There are never comments about their bodies, demeanors, or stage presence, other than those lauding their instrumental virtuosity.
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I knew Prince's hits, of course, and his virtuosity was legend, but I didn't consider myself a fan.
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He is uninterested in virtuosity and dance as a mystifying spectacle, presented at a remove from the audience.
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He launched into the cadenza, playing with a passion and a virtuosity I hadn't heard from him before.
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But even though this compositional virtuosity answers aspects of the music, Ms. Tharp's choreography never fits Beethoven satisfyingly.
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"Momentum," choreographed by Mr. Cornejo to music by Mr. Glass, is an unpretentious exploration of his clean virtuosity.
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"The piece asks for special virtuosity from the singers, for total investment all the time," Mr. Pichon said.
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Romeo — a taxing role — appears extensively throughout all three acts, with both heroic partnering and expansive dance virtuosity.
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At least in the performance on Thursday, Sibelius's stern virtuosity had little to say to Berlioz's hallucinogenic phantasmagoria.
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Mr. Veredice and Ms. Hobert exemplified the greater virtuosity of younger dancers, with more brilliant lower-body feats.
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Mr. Nilsson fused artistic and scientific virtuosity to blaze a new frontier in photography, especially within the womb.
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Fontana's predominantly twisted and asymmetrical pieces, such as "Crocifisso (O Cristo)" (1955–57), were clearly worked with vivid virtuosity.
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The game has caught up to them, and the struggle makes for a strange fit with their recent virtuosity.
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The 1966 win was unexpected, a happy coming together of "spirit, virtuosity and tactical organisation", according to Mr Winter.
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When Paganini published his 24 Caprices for solo violin in 1820, the technical limits of virtuosity were in flux.
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It is widely debated whether tourbillons actually deliver better time; generally, they are considered a symbol of watchmaking virtuosity.
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These immensely gifted young artists have not only different musical orientations and personalities, but also different kinds of virtuosity.
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Most of the productions at Letni Letna featured shifting moods and narratives; virtuosity was subsumed into larger theatrical visions.
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The duo wrote orchestral music for the Chicago Symphony and other classical ensembles, drawing on traditional instruments and virtuosity.
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Ari Aster's hyper-aware movie builds a scary mousetrap with Swedish bait, but it has more virtuosity than vision.
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Despite their distinctiveness, each conveys anonymity in tandem with their virtuosity, qualities accentuated by the pictures' heft and symbolism.
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It was no fluke — the virtuosity continued during the following song, performed with an earnest, almost Hendrix-like showmanship.
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He played at jazz-education festivals and conferences with his high school band, and rumors of his virtuosity spread.
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Part of what animates his practice is a belief that sheer virtuosity is an antidote to pity and marginalization.
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It is a remarkable cake-topper to a display of artistic virtuosity underscored by daring conceptual and aesthetic dynamics.
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Season 3 also made me suspect that writers Benioff and Weiss like to prove someone's virtuosity through their sexual skill.
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Because, there is no doubt: anyone who sees the Whites perform accepts their casual virtuosity, psychic entanglement, and pure heart.
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The chaste prose of her current trilogy seems almost like a reproach to the self-conscious virtuosity that preceded it.
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"We want performers to be persuasive, so that their virtuosity is delivered with panache, and fluency and ease," he said.
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With his contrarian bent, rejection of traditional virtuosity and a taste for the absurd, Satie seems to have prefigured Dada.
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It was, like much of the contemporary circus at Letni Letna, character-driven and compelling beyond the virtuosity on display.
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Instead, it blends in seamlessly: sketching out what has come before, all the while pushing through the bounds of virtuosity.
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Beyond Measures Exacting narratives composed by two acclaimed novelists capture layers of virtuosity and unexpected comedy in their intricate arrangements.
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Her mix of hidden virtuosity and tender emotion complemented the power of John Kriza, her frequent ballet partner, as Billy.
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He embraced electronic drums and drum machines, learning to work with and alongside them, but also maintained his jazz virtuosity.
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For all of its cinematic virtuosity, its lack of a protagonist gave little for the audience to connect with emotionally.
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Ms. Childs, now 19933, has long been famous for her choreography's blend of dance minimalism, sprightly virtuosity and geometric patterns.
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Nevertheless, his virtuosity was celebrated again and again by fellow band members as well as by Lars Ulrich, Metallica's drummer.
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A satire of people who are too online, the film takes a while to stop showing off its own virtuosity.
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Partly that's due to the straightforward virtuosity of his playing, and partly to his compulsion to transcend and blend styles.
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In Bowers's work, on the other hand, the underlying political message seems to only be strengthened by her technical virtuosity.
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"These special effect backings, the largest paintings ever created, were breathtaking in their artistic and technical virtuosity," the authors write.
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But if you ask his teammates, Middleton's workaday virtuosity is the biggest reason the Bucks have lately been making some noise.
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At age 53, she has firmly established herself as an essential contemporary painter whose virtuosity is passionately admired by younger artists.
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In his 19th season, Beltre still plays as he always has: with absolute gusto, with a virtuosity less polished than enthusiastic.
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His work still refuses to settle into a comfortable category, remaining a gelatinous melange of kitsch, academic virtuosity, and unsavory sensuality.
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On one hand, the musicians playing this style are often world class, studying their instruments to an extreme level of virtuosity.
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Yes, each did what she or he does best — singing, with octave-stretching virtuosity (Chenoweth) and sonorously reciting immortal verse (McKellen).
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By now, this quartet's virtuosity is a given, even when joined by five more percussionists, two sopranos and a piccolo player.
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A guest guitar solo by Michael Severson leaves no doubt as to the role that prog-like virtuosity can play here.
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He lacked the charisma or virtuosity or originality (any would suffice) to carry a star solo, much less a whole show.
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Virtuosity This is another so-bad-it's good movie from the 1990s starring actors who went on to much better things.
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Beloved gay pop isn't always wrapped in rainbows, but in exuberance, rawness, poise, virtuosity — the audacity of radiating absolute emotional freedom.
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But it's all about virtuosity; every pause and transition gets a conspicuous musical flourish, and the animated video flaunts every one.
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Another thread that runs brightly through the book concerns virtuosity, and Chopin's place in a music scene dominated by stage animals.
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She glides from history to the present day, from scene to analysis, with a relaxed virtuosity that filled me with admiration.
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Ms. Spektor's eclectic songwriting style and virtuosity as a pianist initially suggest music that should exist on pop's more esoteric fringes.
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But as in the past, the orchestra's virtuosity can sometimes seem to exist merely moment-to-moment, for its own sake.
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In The Nation, Dan Simon summed up the bifurcated quality of his candidacy: For all his overdetermined virtuosity — an accomplished pianist!
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His performance ranged from urgent cris de coeur to languorous meditations, but he delivered both with the same blue-collar virtuosity.
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It was written for Kirill Gerstein, with a blend of staggering virtuosity and tenderness that fits him like a bespoke suit.
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The first movement, especially, went at an easygoing lope, and Mr. Ehnes played cleanly and displayed ample virtuosity of a relaxed sort.
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Kidd's a tough role to cast, because his combination of intense virtuosity and abject horniness is a heavy lift for any actor.
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With the cumulative experience of Bel's three pieces in Crossing the Line, however, the non-virtuosity of the work became less appealing.
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The illusion of rehearsal has endlessly rich possibilities in theater; Mr. Neenan merely sketches a few uncoordinated possibilities of glamour, virtuosity, musicality.
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The replay, two nights later, was settled by Peter Osgood, a center-forward of such virtuosity that he scored in both games.
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Unlike Osborne's play, a conventional narrative, "Revolt" unfolds in a series of fragments that recall the form-bending virtuosity of Caryl Churchill.
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She and Ms. Streisand were born a month apart, and this sort of sustained virtuosity feels special among singers of their stature.
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Certain superstar types, in this kind of situation, have an ability to throttle back, to pass the months in a cruising virtuosity.
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Where they're similar, however, is in how they both took their audiences on unusual musical journeys that challenged the meaning of virtuosity.
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His virtuosity with paint enables him to seamlessly render his foreground subjects in sharp detail, while the backgrounds are looser and dreamier.
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Schubert, the obvious composer in the genre, is here with his reflective set of six pieces, and Rachmaninoff, too, demanding greater virtuosity.
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Here, juggling becomes flights of inspired poetry, musical choreography with strong dance elements, crazy-comedy surrealism, breathtakingly dexterous virtuosity, darkly absurdist drama.
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Once there, he would execute feverish four-limbed virtuosity with fists over the knoblike keys, called batons, and feet on the pedals.
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He could play in convincing vintage styles and sustain multileveled counterpoint, then demolish it all in a whirlwind of genre-smashing virtuosity.
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But virtuosity can involve more than pyrotechnic display, as Mr. Tao made beautifully clear in David Lang's "cage," which opened the program.
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The Vienna Philharmonic plays for him with astonishing virtuosity: strings of tactile fullness; tangy winds; bursts of ideally round and peppery brasses.
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The piece seemed made for the Calidore Quartet, drawing on the ensemble's deep reserves of virtuosity and, above all, irrepressible dramatic instinct.
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It's an actor's showcase, in which Finney shows us both the virtuosity of the workaday thespian and the demons that drive him.
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Throughout the show, his work is shown to be decidedly clunky and lacking in comparison to the finesse and genius virtuosity of Michelangelo.
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On one level, Ligeti used these pieces to explore the nature of virtuosity, the avant-garde musical equivalent of Serena Williams's slashing serves.
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Mr. Currie brought stunning virtuosity and tireless energy to the solo part, which required him to dash constantly among groups of instruments onstage.
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Think of musical virtuosity, and the qualities that most likely come to mind are speed, rhythmic complexity, and extremes of volume and pitch.
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That virtuosity has been even more salient at these Olympic Games, where sports like gymnastics have so emphatically embraced acrobatic force over grace.
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But Post is indeed different from other white rappers, most of whom try to prove their bona fides through virtuosity or political solidarity.
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Mr. Neidlinger's virtuosity manifested itself early, first on the cello, which he played proficiently before his teens, and then on the upright bass.
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I want to keep grooving on the virtuosity of the directing, keep loving the (male) characters, the camerawork, gripping story and mysterious light.
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Hiromi is on tour alone in support of "Spectrum," her new solo-piano album, which puts her energy and virtuosity on open display.sonyhall.
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This kind of play was ideal for star shooters like Curry, who has an assassin-precise virtuosity when it comes to three-pointers.
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The playing is nimble and articulate, bursting with intricate virtuosity and informed by jazz, Celtic music and waltzes, as well as by rock.
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Then, without leaving the stage, he has to change gear immediately into top-speed virtuosity, with full-throttle sequences of jumps and turns.
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This freakish and sexily opulent piece of skull fuckery vibrates with virtuosity, projecting a mesmeric unease that plunges far below its material circumference.
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The virtuosity of the dancers, the specificity of each living movement dazzled me, but what really struck me was the sense of improvisation.
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Kreisler's "Tambourin Chinois," a popular encore piece, showed off Mr. Vengerov's virtuosity in more traditional technique but suffered from coordination problems with the orchestra.
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But though his artistic works exceeded any reasonable definition of virtuosity, Prince, after all, managed his achievements from the confines of a human body.
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The best offense in the NBA against the best defense; the glitz and pomp of the Warriors against the workmanlike virtuosity of the Spurs.
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Thomas's virtuosity is on full display in this work, which achieves surprising depth through simple vertical red marks over only a few different blues.
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Mahdavi's virtuosity with color sometimes overshadows her way with form: the lamps looked as though they might levitate off their six-pointed brass feet.
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It is not a work to be punctuated with rowdy cheers and foot-stomping ovations, despite the uncanny virtuosity of Mr. Yazbek's benchmark score.
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Qiu Ying was a painter celebrated for his stylistic versatility and technical virtuosity during the middle Ming dynasty, in the early to mid 220s.
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In the case of Parker's songs, the melody is complex and requires incredible virtuosity — which is to say, years and years of careful practice.
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Critic's Pick A sparkling show at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., reintroduces the Florentine sculptor who set the bar for virtuosity.
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An exercise in vehicular virtuosity—chase, pass, ram, escape—the movie is relentless, mischievous, almost perverse; at times, you're invited to enjoy Weaver's torment.
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But in practice, the musical demands assimilation from its Puerto Rican performers, then capitalizes on the glorious virtuosity of their capacity to resist it.
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Few have ever matched the virtuosity of Taisuke, quicksilver swift on the floor but boasting the strength and flexibility of a gold medal gymnast.
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But while Powers never seems out to impress or obfuscate, his conspicuous intelligence and virtuosity have also won him a reputation as difficult, even inaccessible.
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Fisher's lab at Nijmegen focusses on pathologies that disrupt speech, but he has started to search for DNA variants that may correlate with linguistic virtuosity.
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Are there two types of countertenors, one searching for the purity of the boy soprano, the other for the power and virtuosity of the castrato?
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The Necks explore motion within stasis and freedom within boundaries, applying detailed, subtle virtuosity and the stamina of nonstop playing to summon a rapturous concentration.
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Golden State's greatness was garish and strident and honestly a little obnoxious; the virtuosity was monotonous at times and somehow all too pure to take.
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The virtuosity of "Esplanade," with its daring floor-skimming slides and perilous catches, is veiled and like the other dances on the program, seemingly simple.
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With that encouragement — and in spite of homophobic mocking by a teacher — Gianni begins his rise, one grounded in technical virtuosity and boldness of vision.
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This gently dignified piece, with childlike simplicity and few extremes, all but dares its soloist to achieve majesty at a whisper, to only suggest virtuosity.
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Unlike Kubrick or Peele, though, Aster isn't interested in psychological complexities that can make a character's terminal fate meaningful and turn directorial virtuosity into vision.
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What I remember more than any virtuosity was seeing the gleaming pride in the eyes of the White family at the talents of this child.
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There is no attempt to enlist virtuosity to transcend the instrument, to make a piano sound either happy or sad according to a recognizable code.
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His team had not just beaten Liverpool for talent, not relied on Neymar's virtuosity or Mbappé's breathtaking speed; it had beaten them for effort, too.
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Jesse Shapiro of Brown University—still under 40, but we are not allowing double dipping—delighted in some of the same empirical virtuosity as Mr Levitt.
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The incendiary Latin funk of "Oye Como Va" showcases the band's virtuosity, and allays any fears that the show would merely coast on Starr's storied past.
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The menacing machine that turns on its human creators is a staple of both B-movies like Virtuosity and pop blockbusters like Avengers: Age of Ultron.
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His recent pieces seem to tamp down on the dancers' virtuosity and sensual pleasure, to be about a Cuban body struggling within a dour, oppressive conceptualism.
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This novel is impressive for its moral complexity, and for the energy and virtuosity of its language: a strange, pleasing music that lingers in your mind.
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But Monk maintained a rough piano style and wrote tunes to reflect it; his virtuosity worked on a level that was more tonal, and more physical.
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Bad Brains' groovy, warp-speed attacks would introduce a new set of virtuosity and flow to a genre often seen as being full of slipshod compositions.
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Warhol was an artist-designer of tremendous virtuosity, and the temptation to demonstrate this by putting comparative works side by side must be hard to resist.
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Snyder "glides from history to the present day, from scene to analysis, with a relaxed virtuosity that filled me with admiration," our critic Parul Sehgal writes.
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Prince and David Bowie are often held up as models for what Hynes could achieve, based on his virtuosity, his charisma, his ambiguous but potent sexuality.
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Nguyen's narrative style—restrained, spare, avoiding metaphor or the syntactical virtuosity on display in every paragraph of "The Sympathizer"—is well suited for portraying tentative states.
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Because when the evening hewed more closely to truly musical comedy, it showed just how funny virtuosity — especially that of the multitalented Ms. Wang — can be.
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For decades, vintage-style blues and the flesh-on-strings virtuosity it requires have been shunted toward nostalgia, preservationism and the die-hard realms of Americana.
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The incredible subtlety of these images, which confound reproduction and require close looking, oblige one to bear eye witness, not only to violence, but to artistic virtuosity.
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While most women are making their voices louder, Cat Power is doing what she's done with grace and casual virtuosity for two decades now: looking quietly inward.
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The Hungarian composer Bela Koreny, whose "Cinema I" was conceived for the Clarinotts, said that the players' virtuosity allowed him to bend the music in many directions.
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The noise and virtuosity of the ending, while effectively concluding the action and raising the intensity to heart-attack levels, also sends the viewer's thoughts spiraling backward.
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Recorded in an eleven-hour session, Grave's debut, Planetary Prince, is a manic explosion of virtuosity, but one that never strays into the realm of self-indulgence.
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His development, in those first years, scanned as a series of growth spurts; he seemed, even game by game, to have picked up some sudden new virtuosity.
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Empire Brass embraces the classic brass quintet configuration — a pair of trumpets, French horn, trombone and tuba — and has long been known for its virtuosity and showmanship.
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Reading these stories, one feels honored to be in the presence of Johnson's witty philosophical mind, and, not incidentally, stunned by the graceful virtuosity of his sentences.
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On opening night, I admired the virtuosity of the director's technique but wished that he had paid more heed to the desperate inner lives of the characters.
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"Liberated from the thick layers of yellow varnish and the coarser overpaints, we can discover the Van Eycks' sublime virtuosity in abundance," says the Royal Institute statement.
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Mr. Gordon's "No Anthem" was trembling waves for a small ensemble; Kaki King's guitar pieces relaxed you into their strumming modesty before unexpectedly whipping into dizzying virtuosity.
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A multigenerational epic, tracing half sisters separated by the trans-Atlantic slave trade, "Homegoing" recalls the work of Eleanor Catton and Garth Risk Hallberg in its virtuosity.
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"For a young, naïve, innocent guy from Australia to be confronted with the virtuosity of what Harry delivered from the stage was sort of gobsmacking," he said.
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AT THE DRIVE-IN When this band broke up in 2001, its music was a punk-hardcore whirlwind of frantic virtuosity, torrential verbiage and barely sublimated fury.
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There are few surer guarantees of quality in classical music than the combination of Mr. Ax and Mozart, and Mr. Ax offered his usual elegant, understated virtuosity.
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In that period, their status as techno luminaries was unequivocally cemented, and the music they gathered in their album Borderland reflected an hard-earned sense of mature virtuosity.
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It is rare to say this about contemporary paintings, but they are rendered with a romantic sense of swooping virtuosity that is close to de Kooning and Gorky.
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Golden State has 75 games left to put it together; chances are, by the end of those, they'll have progressed to the almost boring stage of nightly virtuosity.
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Scouts and coaches laud his intelligence, his sense of timing, and his command of a frame that others might have inhabited with knob-kneed awkwardness instead of virtuosity.
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Frank Zappa's work with the Mothers of Invention contained a lot of chaos and withering negativity — but also a lot of virtuosity, which was not a Dada thing.
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Some people might applaud the virtuosity of opposition players, or lose themselves in "the patterns and rhythms of football without caring about the score," but that wasn't fandom.
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Her preference is to lend pieces to exhibitions, or sell them to museums, where the largest possible audience can consider their improbable journey and marvel at their virtuosity.
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I have never been so impressed by Mr. Trifonov's virtuosity — the most musically comprehensive kind, which is what it took for him to play this work so magnificently.
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It cannot, however, retain a position of preëminence simply on the basis of technical virtuosity; it should also be serving living composers, reshaping the repertory, attracting new audiences.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads PARIS — Apparent at the Foundation Louis Vuitton's exhibition of mostly delicately colored drawings by Egon Schiele is his virtuosity as a draftsman.
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Written as an engagement present, Previn first violin concerto, full of lush strings, Hollywood harmonies and wiry virtuosity, was dedicated to Mutter (Its subtitle is even "Anne-Sophie").
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His younger Russian colleague Daniil Trifonov, who the next night played his own piano concerto with the orchestra, demonstrated how virtuosity can be enhanced by subtlety and nuance.
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Mr. Ponty, a French violinist, is known for his flashy virtuosity and his venturesome original music, a fusion-era brew of European folk song, funk, postbop and rock.
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Eleven performers will participate, adopting Selwyn's lyrical style, which mixes a refined virtuosity with emotional theatricality, and creates a sense of abstract character and community among her dancers.
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The performance by seven of Forsythe's longtime dancers evolves from a distillation of ballet's earliest steps into a stirring example of his ability to awe with inventive virtuosity.
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There was a sense of both Rossini's virtuosity and the emotions that fuel it from the platinum-tone tenor Bryan Hymel and the coolly sparkling soprano Marina Rebeka.
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On the face of it, this violin-and-piano duo looks unlikely: Mr. Kavakos is serious, contemplative; Ms. Wang, more renowned for rhythmic funk and hair-raising virtuosity.
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To Rangers fans who had spent the past couple weeks watching their team lose in all manner of ways, Hamels' day was a welcome comfort, virtuosity as stress relief.
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The confidence and virtuosity required mean that—to a surprising extent for a production line in a totalitarian state—individual artists are able, even encouraged, to develop personal styles.
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Decades later, the same tools Glover would wield with canniness to reboot the genre with its own novel authority, Gunn was using with even slicker virtuosity at the time.
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Nolan has delivered a visceral, suspenseful, at times jaw-dropping historical war movie, the lone disclaimer being that he sacrifices character development in his steadfast focus on technical virtuosity.
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His virtuosity is fluid and natural — he's not a show-off The breadth is complimented by the vibe, which is casual and conversational despite Ocean's ambition and prodigious skill.
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In the 1960s, Mr. Buchla's instruments represented what became known as the West Coast philosophy of electronic music: more experimental and less commercial, breaking away from tradition and virtuosity.
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His dad wanted to be in a band, so, inspired by the virtuosity of Rainbow's Ritchie Blackmore and the progressive battering of Rush's Alex Lifeson, Jones began to practice.
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On the other end of the spectrum were Angelin Preljocaj's "Gravité" and Mourad Merzouki's "Vertikal," both pure dance works that demanded extreme technical precision and virtuosity of different kinds.
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These powerful paintings are unlike much of the work with which we are most familiar: they are stylized, simplified, spare, and absent of her usual technical virtuosity or detail.
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The vegetarian (nay—VEGAN!) recipe I have shared is dedicated to my sassy, unabashedly expressive "friend" from the farmer's market who I am hoping will appreciate it's meatless virtuosity.
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Sorrento's villainy sets up a battle on two fronts — clashes in the Oasis mirroring chases through the streets of Columbus — that inspires Mr. Spielberg to feats of crosscutting virtuosity.
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In a classical landscape crowded with talented musicians, Ms. Jansen stands out not so much for her virtuosity — though she can make sparks fly — as for her eloquent listening.
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The lean, straightforward trio format and the tricky but frisky repertoire made an ideal showcase for Mitchell's prodigious, playful virtuosity and Reid's double duties of propulsion and melodic counterpoint.
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The International Evenings of Dance used to feature too many sets of 32 fouetté turns (the most renowned piece of ballet virtuosity) each evening; this year there were none.
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Violin virtuosity in the good old-fashioned sense here, with Brahms's Violin Sonata No. 3, Enescu's Violin Sonata No. 2, Ravel's Violin Sonata, and pieces by Ernst and Paganini.
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There are no shrinking violets in Mr. Ferver's manic imagination; here, he aims his razor-sharp wit and choreographic precision on the lives and virtuosity of four queer performers.
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And in every innovation — more flowing drapery, more dynamic movement, more lifelike faces and hands — Verrocchio set the bar for virtuosity that his students tried to ape and exceed.
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All of these are linked in their persistent effort to eliminate artisanal competence and other forms of manual virtuosity from the horizon of both artist competence and aesthetic valuation.
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She twirls, grins and gyrates until the chairman breaks into applause, taken aback by the virtuosity of her theatrics: "This is the most amusing farce of the year!" he exclaims.
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"They're all virtuosic in their own rights, but everybody just has such incredible taste and that's a very rare thing, where virtuosity matches up with real musical tastes," Moore says.
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In a rare moment of virtuosity and good-heartedness, some small corner of the interwebs came up with the #tipthebill challenge, and it's restoring some of our faith in humanity.
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This version of Grupo de Rua made its New York debut in 2010 with "H3," which introduced audiences to the company's affecting brand of unadorned theatrics and virtuosity without swagger.
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I feel like that'd be a great way to create some sort of technical virtuosity, but I don't think it's a way to inspire someone to synthesize new cultural ideas.
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The fire, virtuosity and spiritual imagination with which Morgan conjures this weary, seen-it-all, demotic black prophet — like so much else in her book — are nothing short of genius.
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This is team basketball at what might be its highest point of realization, a harmony of individual and collective virtuosity, truth and beauty in synchronicity, and honestly blah blah bleugh.
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It, too, is a celebration of the body's beauty and virtuosity, with an original score by Alex Menzies and permission granted to the dancers to be both silly and serious.
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"What Marcos has written, really, is something for collective virtuosity," said Mr. Fitch, the production's director, whose credits include an ingeniously staged "Le Grand Macabre" with the New York Philharmonic.
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On April 19, Vera Ondrasikova from the Czech Republic presents "Guide," an audiovisual experience featuring lasers, and Paweł Sakowicz from Poland performs "Total," a satirical look at virtuosity in dance.
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In the strongest of them, the effect is truly striking: a straitened virtuosity that could arise only from a keen sensibility, a blunt honesty, and an impatience with the superficial.
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The almost ominously immaculate quality of her playing was well suited to Mr. Adams's dark fantasia, which offers virtuosity while staying — intentionally, I think — wary of its, and any, thrills.
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In their honesty and gravity, his photographs portray a world of virtuosity and struggle, where political and racial boundaries were transgressed and the direction of American popular music dynamically altered.
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The program contained selections from his transcriptions of Bach's partitas for solo violin, bluegrass standards, arrangements of pop songs and Mr. Thile's own compositions — full of whimsy and breathless virtuosity.
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In the same vein, but with a much different subject, he was planning to slow down "Trio A," a work defined by its anti-virtuosity and refusal of the spectator.
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She even enlarged it: In one repeated jump, the sideways quiver of an ascending foot in the air showed, with marvelously musical precision, the virtuosity that this style can attain.
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You marvel at, and think about, the sites instead of the virtuosity of his filmmaking, and listen to the people he interviews, what they say and what they pointedly don't.
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Jane Moss, the artistic director of Lincoln Center, said that Mr. Fischer had become a New York favorite for his virtuosity and his expansive ideas of what concerts can be.
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The tension of this predicament — the need to push forward meeting the need to hold still — pervades Searcy's style, which is one of casual virtuosity, expansive focus and ambling centripetal force.
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Yet the most masterful demonstration of ring generalship on the entire UFC 211 card came from Joanna Jedrzejczyk in a performance of such virtuosity that it really deserves its own article.
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For those fearing that the show would coast on Starr's bountiful charisma and storied past, the incendiary Latin funk of "Oye Como Ya" allayed any anxieties by showcasing the band's virtuosity.
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The only part of the NFL that is redeeming or redeemable is the game, really: the aweing collective effort and the equally awesome individual virtuosity, the intricacy and also the violence.
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In the heyday of PC gaming in the 1990s, nothing embodied the ecosystem quite like space flight simulations: Complex, technical combat that brought Red Baron-esque virtuosity into the starry abyss.
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It is a novel about the real implications of a wholly unreal black performer telling musical stories to white listeners with outrageous appetites for black-American suffering and black-American virtuosity.
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The big ovations go to "Rubies" and "Diamonds," with their spectacle and virtuosity; but hundreds of ballet devotees will tell you that it's the poetically mysterious "Emeralds" they love the most.
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It all adds up to a work that defies normativity pretty much in every way, as she moves with a kind of vulnerable virtuosity from one illuminating entry to the next.
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It preserves intricate interplay between the two soloists in a number of places but generally shares the wealth of virtuosity and abandon with the group's other gifted violinists to thrilling effect.
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In excerpts from the 2002 chamber opera "One," Mr. van der Aa's technical command proves perfectly suited to the astonishing virtuosity of Barbara Hannigan, the contemporary-music diva of the moment.
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But in their free skate program, set to Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata, Ms. Papadakis and Mr. Cizeron expanded the idea of virtuosity with the way they completely tuned in to each other.
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The show, driven by Toshi Reagon's soulful blues improvisations (performed live, onstage), is a celebration of tap as a communal experience, a vehicle for virtuosity, and an expression of joy. ♦
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Paying less heed to the technical virtuosity that had thrilled audiences in big Broadway theaters, she now emphasized phrasing and styling to project a song's emotions in smaller, more intimate settings.
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In, around and through the "aspirational and eschatological rap-gospel masterpiece" (Greg Tate) of Kanye West's "Ultralight Beam" runs Jafa's lovingly edited montage of black sociality, virtuosity, vulnerability, sadness and beauty.
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A MINUS Blood Orange: Cupid Deluxe (Domino) Four arresting pieces of intelligent funk-lite set up six merely accomplished pieces of intelligent funk-lite before Dev Hynes's virtuosity saves the day.
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He's lost in a revolving door of virtuosity at his position, and every so often we should all acknowledge just how awesome Dragic is at all the difficult things he does. 12.
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I think classic metal is the most like opera of all the pop forms because of the way it prizes male virtuosity, the themes having to do with demons and the theatricality.
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His 2013 album Virgins built upon that breakthrough, with Hecker mashing an Icelandic woodwind ensemble and the keyboard virtuosity of Kara-Lis Coverdale into the mix like meat into a sausage grinder.
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Because he never really aimed for sheer virtuosity, he ended up carving his own niche as one of the era's most inventive guitarists, chasing down new textures rather than perfecting established forms.
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In Ratking's early days, his rhetorical virtuosity and forceful delivery earned him comparisons to Eminem, but on "No Mountains" that dense, brute-force style gave way to more complex and supple verses.
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More than 100 works on paper from a number of New York collections, many of them never shown publicly before, show Fragonard's virtuosity with materials, from chalk to wash. Oct. 253-Jan.
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Here and throughout, Lee allows the actors to fill in their characters, letting them add pointillist detail to their portraits rather than smothering them in close-ups or self-regarding directorial virtuosity.
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Critic's Pick Considering Michelle Dorrance's virtuosity as a dancer — which in her medium, tap, is really a type of musician — perhaps it's not surprising that she also sings and plays the bass.
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It features two symphonies — one Classical (Mozart's No. 25), one Neo-Classical (Prokofiev's No. 1) — as well as one of the grandest of the Romantic odes to solo virtuosity, Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto.
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Too mannered for realism and too thin for fable, it spins its wheels in a social and intellectual void filled only by Wakefield's voice-over musings and the shadow of Doctorow's virtuosity.
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Dark and death-obsessed as they are, so too do they possess an unmistakable jouissance — a kind of poetic YOLO expressed through wordplay — as well as a Dickinsonian compression and linguistic virtuosity.
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A year earlier, "Fingertips Pt. 220," a mostly instrumental number that showcased the 13-year-old prodigy's virtuosity on the harmonica, reached No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 and R&B charts.
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"DAMN." is a remarkable feat for Mr. Lamar, who pushes past the club anthems of his last album to expose his deepest vulnerabilities while continuing to stun us with his lyrical virtuosity.
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But he came from a later generation, one that had grown up on punk iconoclasm as well as metal virtuosity and that was far too self-conscious for the old rock machismo.
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Like Virtuosity, the film is set in 1999 Los Angeles and its characters use a head-mounted device called a SQUID (Superconducting Quantum Interference Device) to jack into the recorded lives of others.
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Virtuosity and variety are the name of the game on Tuesday when the violinist Jennifer Koh performs short works for solo violin written by more than 30 composers in response to Paganini's Caprices.
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Following one of the book's most terrible and tragic moments, the Swallow Man produces a wonderful piece of artistic virtuosity that borders on the supernatural, and he asserts that its effects will last.
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" Later, with less romanticism if equal virtuosity, she describes the cruel cycle of afflictions endemic to poorer neighbors: "I can remember being repulsed and being held by the gaunt unhealthiness of their faces. . . .
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In the Prokofiev, she dispatched the tangles of passagework, pummeling chords and arm-blurring bursts of octaves with excitingly effortless virtuosity, while also highlighting the music's moments of lyrical richness and poetic musing.
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When he became executive director of King's civil rights platform, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, in 1960, Mr. Walker imposed discipline and professionalism, leading with a virtuosity that some felt flirted with cynicism.
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If Tony Williams is the biggest root influence on jazz drummers today, then more of them should honor his bombastic virtuosity with the same sense of joy and freshness that Justin Brown does.
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Letter of Recommendation The language of jazz can be so lofty — so full of chord changes, musical virtuosity, "feel" and "pocket" and other ineffables — that it can seem, to the uninitiated, like homework.
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Matthew Yglesias: "Battle of the Bastards" is an exciting episode of television, especially from the standpoint of technical virtuosity, but as a piece of writing and storytelling it strikes me as borderline disastrous.
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But as an operatic pit band, that Philharmonic virtuosity can tip over into seeming overcharged and overdetailed, as if "Aida" were an orchestral tone poem with some singing way, way in the background.
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In "Anthem," Ms. Djordevich pushes back against those edicts by embracing "theatricality, virtuosity and sass" through a mix of various dance styles and repetitive movements that grow in complexity before dissolving in chaos.
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As our reviewer, Namara Smith, put it, the novel is less about ballet "than the costs of early virtuosity — the feeling of being propelled by a force you don't understand and can't control."
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Previous editions of the Festival have concentrated on specific repertories, but these concerts will be as much about the intangible qualities of space as about the virtuosity and style of the musicians themselves.
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It found its most thoughtful expression in "Brightness Falls," which is broader in scope than "Bright Lights" and its closest rival, among McInerney's novels, in the virtuosity and near-perfection of its execution.
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During that time, playing with the saxophonists Albert Ayler and Sonny Rollins, he defined as well as anyone the blurry line between the scratchiness of free improvisation and the virtuosity of the jazz tradition.
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But after a few minutes, he appeared to lose patience and cranked up the virtuosity — dancing, shredding on guitar, sliding from the depth-sounder bottom end of his vocal register into an otherworldly falsetto.
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Part of the impact, undoubtedly, came from her femininity and her youthful insouciance — a woman carelessly executing the male master strokes for her own mental reference — but her new and authentic virtuosity was unmistakable.
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Silas Farley, the best known of them (he's often eye-catching as the tallest and happiest man onstage), seizes a moment of expansive virtuosity; Alec Knight, also tall and happy, displays a terrific jump.
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The ballet itself exhilarates; the way it fuses the music of Vivaldi and Corelli with latter-day classical dance virtuosity crosses historical borders with exuberant imagination: the baroque is remade in modern American terms.
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Shot by the distinguished Mexican cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, the movie has several jaw-dropping long takes (or apparent long takes) that don't stop the action with their choreographed virtuosity but only enhance its acceleration.
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A parallel example of a soloist's hollow virtuosity fluttering atop an elegant dance-like group refrain is the alto aria from Bach's church cantata "Whoever may love me will keep my word" (BWV 74).
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Brown's music is a cross-pollination between the slicked electric textures of 1980s R&B, the warm grooves of Golden Era hip-hop, the thrashing power of rock and the effortless virtuosity of jazz.
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Tables and chairs that once delighted viewers with their technical virtuosity and sleek good looks "are about the past," said Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art.
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Only one drama this decade, in fact, managed to pull off old-school, longform seasons of TV with the same consistent finesse and virtuosity as similar shows with much smaller seasons: The Good Wife.
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Unfortunately, Virtuosity had little to do with the technology other than a VR-made super villain (Russell Crowe) who gets fabricated into a real world criminal to do battle with a human cop (Denzel Washington).
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But in dealing with such weighty and dark themes, the book suffers from an inconsistency in tone—jarring transitions, from virtuosity and snark to heavy handedness and moralizing, make Roy sound unconvincing as a narrator.
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There is a tendency, in sports, to ascribe everything that seems easy to the virtuosity of the performers: to Alexander-Arnold's natural vision, to Robertson's accuracy, to a coolheadedness that Salah just happens to have.
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Chilean tenor player Melissa Aldana wields her unmatched virtuosity in service an emotive artistic vision, as opposed to being just showy and exhibitionist, like other young players tend to be on the male-dominated instrument.
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ANTHONY TOMMASINI On Monday at Roulette in Brooklyn, the trumpeter Peter Evans and the percussionist (and electronics specialist) Levy Lorenzo played a continuous hourlong duo set that was packed with technical virtuosity and textural variation.
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Shifting his color palette for each setting of Muddy's life, Turk captures the legendary musician's proud originality with his own dazzling virtuosity on the page, incorporating materials including old newspaper clippings, printer's ink and paint.
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It seems to have been first applied musically to a Portuguese dance, but by the High Baroque it typically designated a simple melodic and harmonic scheme used for variations building to dizzying heights of virtuosity.
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But I am personally of the opinion that the halftime show is the real institution here – rarely do we ever get the chance to witness such titanic levels of talent, musical virtuosity, and masterful choreography.
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Their achievements have set off a wider debate in Italy about what constitutes literature in a country where self-referential virtuosity is often valued over storytelling, emotional resonance and issues like sexism or gender roles.
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When Carrie finally has a great date, the director, Susan Johnson, films the actors in an unbroken take so lengthy it's unclear whether we should admire the unforced banter or the camera operator's virtuosity. 4.
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On Wednesday at David Geffen Hall, Mr. Grosvenor displayed a musicianly side of his virtuosity, giving a crisp, lithe and bracing account of Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the New York Philharmonic.
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Their accomplished resolution, their dazzling technical virtuosity, their clichéd fixity as finished objects, tied to their overwhelming acclaim, make it difficult for me to implicitly enter the pieces and join them — and thus them join me.
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It's a lifestyle that doesn't foster much allowance for a healthy work-life balance, a venture in medical virtuosity that ends up eating away at your time, money, emotional state, and, in some cases, family life.
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Claustrophobic and exhilarating at once, with moments of sublime beauty nestled inside thickets of dark virtuosity, "Pavilions" is an extraordinary musical experience and a pianistic masterpiece I would unhesitatingly place alongside those of Bach and Liszt.
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So when the violinist Jennifer Koh commissioned 32 short works for solo violin as responses to Paganini, from as many composers, the project, titled "Shared Madness," seemed like a good test of where virtuosity stands today.
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But all this beauty — the sensuality of the camera movements, the slowness of many of the scenes, the lovely hush that descends over the final act — is more than just a matter of style or virtuosity.
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But Absolute Life Transformation, the strange little Doom wad mentioned earlier, takes some of Eternal's wildest ideas—namely the architectural virtuosity and penchant for abrupt shifts in tone between maps—and pushes them into the stratosphere.
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On their fourth album, "Ordinary Corrupt Human Love," released on July 13, this San Francisco metal band sounds almost tender: Layers of delicate, jam-ready arpeggios organically evolve into displays of intense, all-systems-go virtuosity.
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Up close, the quartet seemed to deal only in disorienting extremes, like the alternating alarms and chirps, both chilling and playful, in "Abyss of the Birds," a lengthy solo played with inexhaustible virtuosity by Ms. Kim.
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"His tremendous virtuosity as a craftsman made him delight in difficulties which up to then had seemed beyond the reach of sculpture": this much of Rudolf Wittkower's praise for Bernini also applies, word for word, to Serra.
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This MacArthur Award-winning tap dancer (a label she acquired last year and that can still cause double takes) is a choreographer with a growing ability to spread her virtuosity across an ensemble and through extended compositions.
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The fantasy at the core of that sales pitch is not Cam Newton's mastery or Aaron Rodgers' calm or Odell Beckham Jr.'s virtuosity, and it's not even the ambient politics of J.J. Watt's stolid country strength.
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Some of this qualifies as part of golf's appeal—the broader pastoral gentility and all those elaborate decorum rituals are stretched dangerously thin over the usual psychotic competitive focus and the high-pressure virtuosity of individual sports.
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It, too, was a mess, but there were twenty- or sixty-second stretches of technical virtuosity that made it a gripping listen, and one song, "Deja Vu," that ranks near the very top of his entire catalog.
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The artifacts include "Hackers" (on Saturday and Tuesday), with a pre-fame Angelina Jolie, and star vehicles for Denzel Washington ("Virtuosity," on Thursday, Friday and Sunday) and Keanu Reeves ("Johnny Mnemonic," on Friday, Sunday and March 12).
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Protomartyr prefer emphatic talk-singing over arrangements that are mostly spare with the occasional burst of metal-inflected virtuosity, while Preoccupations lean toward New Wave, with many-layered synths sometimes taking the place of endlessly reverberating guitars.
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In this way, her story reflects that of another eminent 20th-century pianist, Mary Lou Williams, whose compositions, arrangements, piano virtuosity, organizing and mentorship made her one of the most versatile — and crucial — figures in jazz history.
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"Ella" is to Ella Fitzgerald performing scat; on Thursday, it was a happy vehicle for Ms. Figgins and Mr. Monteiro, fizzing away excitingly through a wide range of dynamics and moods in response to Fitzgerald's gleeful virtuosity.
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This acoustic quintet has spent over a decade translating individual virtuosity — the frontman Chris Thile is widely recognized as one of the world's best mandolin players — into folk that has the intricacy and precision of chamber music.
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As they do every year at the close of the Metropolitan Opera's season, to their regular audience's delight, the Met players put on a stellar display of their own virtuosity, as stunning in whispers as in shouts.
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There is no denying the sheer virtuosity of the result, but the cast spend much of "Orlando" galloping from one set to the next, leaving the characters little room to breathe and project a sense of atmosphere.
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Lizzo's real-time virtuosity and full-time exuberance are welcome correctives, along with her willingness to reclaim funk, soul and gospel, to fill her recordings with live-sounding instruments and to balance self-aggrandizement with campy amusement.
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As introduced by Munro (David Paisley) and performed with music-hall virtuosity by his fellow soldiers, these narratives come to represent British bravado in the face of disaster, the equivalent of whistling a happy tune when afraid.
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But unlike in "Lady Macbeth" and "Aida" — and unlike in the "Wozzeck" I heard this ensemble play as the orchestra of the Vienna State Opera a few years ago — here virtuosity was the means, not the end.
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This was in part thanks to the presence of the night's other newsmaker, Mr. Debargue, who was raging in one moment, then daringly swinging the next, before turning to a more familiar standard of luxuriant Romantic virtuosity.
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Track 8, the "Butterfly" Etude in G-flat major, shows how Friedman converts this virtuosity into sublime wit: We are dancing away until that moment of rubato at the end, where one note is suspended in air.
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ARTEK, MAY 5 This early-music group offered an enticing program, "Stylus Fantasticus: The Genius of Biber," at St. Ignatius of Antioch Church on Manhattan's Upper West Side, highlighting the unrestrained virtuosity of the violinist Cynthia Freivogel.
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Directed with senses-saturating virtuosity by Alex Timbers, and starring a ravishing Karen Olivo as a dying Parisian vedette, this ne plus ultra of a much maligned form, the jukebox musical, found an unlikely elegance in excess.
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The searing guitar virtuosity heard on early hits like "280 or 503 to 250" and "Make Me Smile" was enough to impress even Jimi Hendrix — who, according to legend, rated Kath as a better axe-man than himself.
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Now, some 40 years on, in a show of new work at Metro Pictures, the virtuosity is greater than ever, or at least subtler, and Ms. Sherman is still sole actor, director and costumer in a continuing drama.
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But her performance of 16 of these new pieces at National Sawdust on Tuesday showed just how much disagreement there is among composers, not just over what constitutes virtuosity, but also about whether to use it at all.
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Watching a team defined by pyrotechnical improvisation and quicksilver virtuosity get pinned, helpless, beneath the rubber sole of San Antonio's biz-casual loafers, can—for someone suitably grandiose and dumpling-addled—feel almost like a sort of death.
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Mr. Allen has become one of today's most exciting tenor saxophonists not by trying to spotlight his own virtuosity, as so many bandleaders feel compelled to do, but by defining a new way of playing in a group.
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And the virtuosity of those rotations — the men turn, upside down, on either both hands or one, so unexpectedly and so fast that you can't quite see what they're doing or how — is a touch of theatrical magic.
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Some may find that Hass has grown too comfy in his effusive style and his old lefty politics, but to me it all sounds like mastery, like singular virtuosity attained on a very popular instrument — common American speech.
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Many critics have noted that this return to "painterly capacity" is particularly notable in black artists, and, strange indeed, that they should be the gateway—the permission needed—to return to the figurative, to the possibility of virtuosity!
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While China has excelled at individual sports that demand intense discipline from an early age, the country has not done as well at fostering group sports, where skills like teamwork and improvisation count as much as personal virtuosity.
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With his sick new ax in tow, and my developing virtuosity (mostly thanks to Rob, the chill 20-something guitar teacher who gave lessons in the local mini-mall), Jason and I were heading toward a fruitful collaboration.
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But the virtuosity required of an improviser who needs to anticipate and react to a flickering stream of images and actions must have been widespread in those days, an art form as precarious and gripping as Keaton's daredevil stunts.
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There's a political point to all this whimsy—by elevating girly imagery to the realm of "serious" painting, von Hellermann pokes fun at the macho conventions of a tradition composed largely of men pairing technical virtuosity with weighty subjects.
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The youngster is a reverent preservationist, playing the familiar licks and enacting the familiar exertions: the scrunched face, the eyes squeezed shut, the neck craned back, all the better to advertise emotional transport and the demands of technical virtuosity.
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But as good as she was, the dancers and marching band and majorettes she brought with her — part black-college halftime extravaganza, part Fela Kuti marathon; workers to her queen — might have been even better, their virtuosity reinforcing hers.
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He dispatched this concerto with his customary virtuosity and commitment, but for all his double-octave flash, it was his tender voicing of the cluster chords that halo the melody of the slow movement that lingers in the ears.
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"I will always remember his immense imagination, his ability to conceive new trends for every season, his inexhaustible energy, the virtuosity of his drawings, his carefully guarded independence, his encyclopedic culture and his unique wit and eloquence," Arnault said.
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Fans of British film will recognize the plot from the classic British comedy "Kind Hearts and Coronets," which gave Alec Guinness a chance to display his own virtuosity as a raft of British gentlefolk falling prey to an ambitious relative.
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So, rather than be defensive about the possibility of being replaced by a machine translator, I am aware of the remarkable feats of which machines are capable, and full of admiration for the technical complexity and virtuosity of Google's work.
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Such novel work would, at best, be seen live: even the most high-tech speakers are no match, and one of classical music's advantages over its genre rivals is the joy of watching the astonishing virtuosity of its best musicians.
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"Logan" did snag an adapted screenplay nod, but otherwise, movies like "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" and "Blade Runner: 2049" (admittedly a disappointment, financially speaking) were limited to bids related to their technical virtuosity in areas like sound and music.
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In this ebullient, overstuffed outpouring of notes, which all but exploded the traditional form, Mr. Staier finally unleashed the full range of his virtuosity, veering perhaps toward some mix of the sanguine and choleric temperaments of old: an utter joy.
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Because if we're not—if things like costly vinyl records, or the intimidating need for expertise, or musical virtuosity are meant to keep people out—then we should all really look at what we believe any of this music means.
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Da Drought 3 is not a great album in the way that such things are often imagined, as carefully sculpted products with some kind of focused concept, but rather it is a feat of pure athleticism, a display of virtuosity.
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Such is the lads' own portrait gallery, which depicts the townsfolk of Ballyturk, whose doings Mr. Murphy and Mr. Murfi's One and Two act out again and again, with jaw-dropping virtuosity, in what feels like an eternal soap opera.
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This high-powered Canadian company, which specializes in Celtic music, song and dance, brings its percussive virtuosity to Brooklyn in this On Stage at Kingsborough program highlighting three forms: traditional Irish step; tap; and Ottawa Valley, a brisk, high-stepping style.
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The evening opened with young George Li's crisp account of the exuberant First Concerto; Alexander Toradze brought weighty virtuosity to the daunting Second; and the amazing Daniil Trifonov won a predictably huge ovation for his dazzling account of the popular Third.
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But where past records found West battling a more tangled interiority, Jesus Is King, despite its occasional bright currents—a reunited Clipse, saxophone virtuosity via Kenny G, and an Auto-Tuned Fred Hammond (!!!)—is an album of simple Christian platitudes.
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"The Soviet style was very much embedded in the culture of Russia—the relationship to ballet, the ideas of risk, originality, and virtuosity," Elizabeth Booth, a lecturer at the University of Greenwich, who writes the blog Rewriting Russian Gymnastics, told me.
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A satire of overamped gamer culture that is itself too overamped to be much fun, "Guns Akimbo" takes a while before it stops showing off its virtuosity — shots that turn cartwheels, frantic cutting, an onslaught of graphics — and finds a groove.
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The 75-minute program, played without intermission, ended with Ms. Lee, who brought a winning mix of stylish grace and incisive virtuosity to Tchaikovsky's "Variations on a Rococo Theme," with Mr. Francis drawing supple and radiant playing from the orchestra.
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Whether he's weighing the meaning of Oprah's foray into the poetry world ("Spring Fashion Modeled by Rising Young Poets," read one headline in O, The Oprah Magazine) or questioning the notion of virtuosity, Orr writes with generous reasonableness and accessibility.
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So while this exemplary exhibition reveals a singular artistic achievement and works not just of stunning virtuosity but of genuine emotional gravity, it can also feel a bit like a chamber orchestra of Neros tuning up as Rome starts burning.
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Highest note in Met history and all, Thomas Adès's score was a force of wild virtuosity and ever-mounting anxiety; diction and characterization did fall by the wayside, but neither so much as some critics would have had you think.
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You might even call the French artist the Jeff Koons of his day: possessed of a virtuosity so extreme that it becomes its own subject, seducing every class of viewer, while mirroring the self-regard of the wealthy and privileged.
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Lamar's performances evoke a haunted, transcendent act of awakened consciousness and composed virtuosity that b(l)end the conventions of goth rock and European classical music, opera and the avant-garde, and spirituals and free jazz, yielding something that is singularly his own.
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Front Row Center BERN, SWITZERLAND — Patricia Kopatchinskaja would rather be known for the passion and virtuosity of her violin playing than for the fact that she often performs barefoot — or that sometimes she hums along with the orchestras while accompanying them on stage.
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He certainly demonstrates an Avedon-esque virtuosity with black-and-white values; selections from Soth's Songbook series, shot with a Hasselblad camera with a digital back, are so hyper-detailed that they almost pull details out of life that aren't normally there.
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Unlike their first releases, Lords of Hypocrisy and Mythical and Magical demonstrated considerable growth in terms of the band's guitar playing, storytelling, and the overall richness of their sound, bringing in the guitar virtuosity of Mark Knopfler alongside hypnotic backing female vocals.
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Many have since roughed up the field, none more so than Red Priest (as Vivaldi was called), which trades on astonishing, all-out virtuosity on violin by Adam Summerhayes — including "beer-fiddling," as he terms it — and on recorders by Piers Adams.
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Ms. Rainer defined the Judson generation with her "No" manifesto ("No to spectacle, No to virtuosity, No to transformations and magic and make-believe" and no to much more, in 1965) and her seminally anti-sensationalist, anti-phrasing dance "Trio A" (1966).
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Distrustful of the idea of genre, which flattens differences among artists, and of the cloying playlists devised by streaming services ("Best Morning Ever"), Ratliff organizes his chapters around themes that cut across the entire musical continuum: speed, slowness, stillness, loudness, density, virtuosity.
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Potrykus, wandering with Sean into disturbing psychological territory and absurd humor, displays a bold dramatic virtuosity: most of the movie features Sean alone, punctuated only by increasingly troubled visits from his cousin Cortez (Amari Cheatom), yet the dramatic tension remains high throughout.
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Echoing Basquiat's series on jazz musicians such as Miles Davis and Charlie Parker, each of these athletes possessed formidable command over his craft yet limited control over the construction of their celebrity or the profits and wealth generated and extracted from their voice and virtuosity.
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It is true that these players and these teams do not play basketball with the zipless efficiency and virtuosity of NBA teams, and that the games in the NCAA Tournament are strictly speaking a total fucking mess of post-teenage overage and under-qualification.
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His spellbinding virtuosity and urgently dynamic live shows have made fans of fellow musicians from Keith Richards and Robert Plant to Josh Homme and Win Butler, and built him a following that's crossed over from the world music community to the jam-band circuit.
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It's in the earlier works that I see what I'm always gratified to see: technical virtuosity, rule-breaking assertiveness that doesn't succumb to smugness, meaningful story-making, and a consistent willingness to take risks — with Recognize My Sign, I get to have it all.
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But even an initial brush with "Improvement" is an experience of hypnotic vocal virtuosity — the cast makes its way through an enormous quantity of words with choral synchronicity and stunning clarity — and emotional weight, rueful humor and a pleasant sense of bathing in idiosyncratic charm.
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Josh Groban: Bridges (Reprise) Josh Groban, the most successful pop-classical singer of our time, walks a delicate tightrope between sex appeal and respectability, between vocal virtuosity and fun approachability, between the sanctity of his calling and the glitz of selling millions of records.
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Mixing comedy and musicals with strong doses of eroticism and political satire, the genre leaned heavily on the virtuosity of the show girls, or vedettes, like Ethel and Gogó Rojo, who sold out shows with their ability to simultaneously sing, dance, act, and charm the audience.
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It gets the idea across, but it's not much more than a shouting match, and it's nowhere near the fusion of virtuosity and significance conveyed in the challenge dance between Mr. Glover and Mr. Hines in "Jelly's," a duet for a man and his younger self.
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A sure-footed storyteller, enjoying his own virtuosity without showing off too much, he's attuned to pain and absurdity but fundamentally approves of and takes pleasure in humans and other animals, landscapes of all kinds and many of the countless signifying shapes the world can take.
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But the book's subject is less the ballet itself than the costs of early virtuosity — the feeling of being propelled by a force you don't understand and can't control — and the dangerous intoxication of the perfect, weightless moments when everything but "air, motion, height" falls away.
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I believe that the lack of architectural presence in the article is not an oversight by the reporter, but rather an oversight by the tech community and our own profession for a willingness to perpetuate the myth that all we care about is formal, egocentric virtuosity.
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Lavery continues to impress with his forthright virtuosity," the dance writer Don McDonagh wrote in The Times in June of that year, and two days later, reviewing another performance for the paper, Clive Barnes said of him, "A newcomer this season, he seems a very sound cavalier.
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When she becomes a teenager, and the occasional object of ridicule for her facial contortions and rocking body at the keyboard, her vision is temporarily restored under hypnosis by Dr. Franz Mesmer — after which her virtuosity wanes, leaving her torn between her artistry and her sight.
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A.T. Max Emanuel Cencic, countertenor; Armonia Atenea; George Petrou, conductor (Decca) Flamboyant virtuosity and a toffee-smooth voice encompassing inky low notes are the weapons of choice for this countertenor on an album of dazzling arias by Nicola Porpora, a Neapolitan opera composer and rival of Handel.
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There are sequences, however, when their virtuosity — especially Ms. Munyaneza's — becomes an end in itself, showing too much relish in the wow effects she makes with clicking vocalism and off-kilter movement, as if she were a movie actor adoring the close-up in a powerful monologue.
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This abundance isn't an empty show of virtuosity but rooted in Sjon's belief in the power and obligation of old-fashioned storytelling (there are homages to great storytellers throughout; one character is named Halldora Oktavia, after the Icelandic novelist Halldor Laxness and the Mexican writer Octavio Paz).
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"I think the reason they're successful is because they've developed a virtuosity," said Justin Vivian Bond, the queer performance artist, for whom Mx. Hopkins worked as an assistant one summer when Mx. Bond was curating the Spiegeltent Cabaret at Bard's Fisher Center for the Performing Arts.
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Its musicality is a matter of efficiency rather than of revelation; some of the music's most singular changes of orchestral color and tone pass by as if unnoticed, and a few touches of Ice-Capades-like virtuosity (sudden spins and catches) seem tacked on without musical cues.
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It's no surprise that while she is celebrated in Europe, she has never been fully on the radar here in the United States: There is even to her virtuosity a restraint, an inwardness, that separates her from the sunny showboats who tend to become American stars.
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AT 533 MINUTE 1910 SECONDS In his first appearance after winning the Gilmore, a celebratory talk and recital at the Greene Space on Thursday night, Igor Levit opened with understated virtuosity: the Chaconne from Bach's Partita No. 217 for violin, transcribed for the left hand by Brahms.
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He was closing in on age 27, which made comparisons to self-destructive 27 Club stars like Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, and Jim Morrison inevitable, particularly given that he was at the height of his virtuosity and quickly becoming the most famous rapper in the world.
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Fantin-Latour painted a great number of such flower paintings over his career, as we see with the much later, but stylistically consistent, "Roses" (1889), a painting that demonstrates his talent for the balanced composition of bouquets as well as an exceptional virtuosity in capturing glass textures.
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In updating the traditional assumption of the artist's genius and virtuosity, he has raised the stakes, so to speak, in ascribing to Soutine religious and spiritual powers that seem to transcend earlier beliefs of pagan magic, notions that would be regarded as absurd within the still positivist interwar worldview.
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If traditional virtuosity contains an element of surprise, Christopher Rountree's "because I left it there" delivered it with a deceptively simple, folk-like score that Ms. Koh played while reciting a quirky, wistful monologue about an offering of frozen yogurt left to melt unappreciated on a front porch.
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The fine violinist Benjamin Baker, 258, joined by the gifted pianist Daniel Lebhardt, brought virtuosity, refinement and youthful exuberance to a daunting program that included Britten's Op. 22015 Suite and Elgar's rhapsodic Sonata in E minor (from 1919), along with an inventive premiere by Tonia Ko for solo violin.
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That's because director Sam Mendes' tale of World War I heroism is, basically, old wine in a new bottle -- a familiar war story, filmed to look like one continuous shot, an act of supreme technical virtuosity that would be a gimmick if the story didn't hold together so well.
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In "Happiness, as Such," she pulled off a wonderful act of virtuosity, an epistolary novel in which a young man, Michele, is the subject of a series of letters written to, by, and also about him, by his mother, his sisters, a friend, a former girlfriend, and assorted others.
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Minh Phan's Thursday-night dinners in Historic Filipinotown are a deal — $49993 for a three-course meal — but they also remind you that Ms. Phan is running a fine-dining kitchen with finesse and virtuosity, even though Porridge and Puffs disguises itself as a casual grain-bowl restaurant.
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Across more than 60 years as an acclaimed American poet, Mr. Wilbur followed a muse who prized traditional virtuosity over self-dramatization; as a consequence he often found himself out of favor with the literary authorities who preferred the heat of artists like Sylvia Plath and Allen Ginsberg.
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Much of it is rooted in folk music, particularly pieces by Haydn, Brahms and Liszt; some is contemporary, including a handful from Gyorgy Kurtag's "Jatekok" and an arrangement drawn from Thomas Adès's "The Exterminating Angel"; and the whole lot is balanced by works demanding the utmost virtuosity, above all Liszt's Sonata.
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This is not to discredit Schapiro: it was as customary in that period for an artist to display virtuosity in the visual language of the New York School as it was for any European artist in the 19th century to go to Rome to polish their articulation of classical form.
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Despite all the attention Ms. Wang gets for pyrotechnic virtuosity and, I have to say, bold fashion, she is a remarkably unpretentious partner when she plays with peers like the violinist Leonidas Kavakos (they will share a Carnegie recital in February) and, in the case of Friday, the percussionist Martin Grubinger.
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Now, it doesn't have much to do with bain-maries or santoku knives, but André Previn died yesterday at 89 and you should take a moment today to read his obituary and admire his virtuosity at the piano, captured here in a performance on "The Andy Williams Show" in 1965.
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It was that he kept sharing the virtuosity of others: the Detroit power singers Steffanie Christi'an and Thornetta Davis well after midnight, the Brooklyn United Marching Band blasting through Curtis Mayfield's "Move on Up" at the crack of dawn, the guitar shredding of Viva DeConcini for nearly the whole thing.
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SNL cast member and now-boyfriend Pete Davidson offered to smoke pot with her as a response but, instead, she quickly jumped into a Streisand-esque show tune, "What Will My Scandal Be," making her throwback vocal virtuosity the main attraction, and playing everyone from Shakira to Rihanna in another impressions skit.
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Like the original viennoiserie, which were painstakingly elegant pastries designed for the Hapsburg court in imperial Vienna that eventually became indispensable to the city's sidewalks, their decadence is matched by the virtuosity of their construction and their element of surprise: They are, then as now, as much for beholding as for eating.
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Alfonso Cuarón's astoundingly beautiful black and white film centers around Cleo (Yalitza Aparacio), a live-in nanny and housekeeper charged with the care of a middle class family of four (and their Good dog!) in Mexico City, but Roma is wildly ambitious, and captures the scope of the human condition on screen with virtuosity.
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Midkiff, who was once in a bluegrass band, doubled as soloist, and his mellow virtuosity elicited youthful yelps from the upper galleries of the hall: Midkiff also teaches music at Patrick Henry High School, in Roanoke, Virginia, and the previous evening his students had given a committed performance on the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage.
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They were quiet and unambitious, minor, I thought at first, still-lifes and modest landscapes, interesting mostly for having so little to do with everything else we had seen; the painter had spent his whole life in this city but seemed indifferent to the examples it offered, to the virtuosity and gorgeousness it prized.
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Courtesy the artist; Corvi-Mora, London; and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York Those days are done: here is blatant virtuosity, hiding in plain sight, and the restraint has shifted to the narrative itself, which now offers us only as much as we might need to prompt our own creative projections—no more, no less.
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Within days, I was obsessed, binging through past seasons during the week to tide me over until Season 23's latest episode every Friday night, when I could obsess over the sudden downfall of Valentina, lament the unrelenting defeatism of Nina Bo'Nina Brown, and marvel at the buoyant virtuosity of dynamic duo Shea Couleé and Sasha Velour.
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As Dewey — who impersonates his roommate, Ned (Spencer Moses), a substitute teacher, to land a job at the exclusive Horace Green prep school — Mr. Brightman never makes the mistake of trying to upstage his young co-stars; he gets down with, and brings out the best in, them in a performance as notable for its generosity as its virtuosity.
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Last year she performed 235 times (that would be an average of once every 36 hours), including spots on Keith Urban's and Sugarland's tours; notched her first top 20 hit with "Criminal"; released The Continuum Project, an outside-the-box remake of John Mayer's Continuum album; and torched the CMA Awards stage with her guitar virtuosity.
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" The first novel-length portrait of Roth's indelible alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman, is "one of Philip Roth's best short fictions," exhibiting bursts of "exceptional virtuosity," wrote our reviewer, Robert Towers, adding that the "rich promise of its style and inventiveness is in part betrayed by miscalculations of tone and structure, by a cleverness that sometimes bites its own tail.
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Mr. Friedman's jaw-dropping virtuosity (an excellent rebuttal to the idea that technique is "better" these days) can be heard in Track 5, the Etude in C major, and maybe even more obviously in Track 4, Etude in G-flat major — the way he tosses these things off, the sense of delight, the pleasure of piano playing.
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Reggie (Regg Roc) Gray, whose charisma and virtuosity made him the leader of a group that would eventually include Sam (Sam I Am) Estavien, Calvin Hunt, and about fifteen others, perfected a movement that he called "pauzin," a variation on Jamaican Bruk Up that requires continuous start-and-stop movements—movements so quick that they look strobe-lit.
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Creating characters who frequent night clubs or work in them, Micheaux used the advent of sound to document an extraordinary array of black artists—including opera singers, jazz bands, blues musicians, comedians, primordial twerkers, swing dancers, and tap dancers of easygoing virtuosity—whose work wasn't often seen by Hollywood's audiences but whose talent dwarfed that of many white celebrities.
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There, in 1951, a young couple, Mildred and Hubert H. Everist Jr., and their dreams of beauty and innovation met with Richard Neutra, the mid-century architect who virtually embodied the California Dream in his sleek, low-slung homes, with their huge windows framing the lush growth of the hills and glamorous lifestyles of his clients with cinematic virtuosity.
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But the breadth and virtuosity of the work in The Sky Is a Great Space — organized by Connie Butler of the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and Ian Alteveer at the Met, and supported by Foundazione Merz (run by Marisa's daughter Beatrice) — rightly asserts Merz's place in art history far beyond the bounds of Arte Povera.
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A new iteration of its production "Entre Tú y Yo" ("Between You and Me") comprises three works: a revised version of "La Ronde," which explores facets of the duet form; "Refugiados," created 173 years ago from poems by refugee children; and "Soleá," a semi-improvised solo by Barrio that impresses not only for its virtuosity, but for the thrilling internal drama she shares.
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Behind all the formalism and eccentric virtuosity, there's personal history from a writer who has rarely put himself into his own fiction before: the family legends and tragedies that Moore has blown up to mythical size to preserve them from the void, and the streets and buildings, lost and soon to be lost, whose every cracked stone is holy to him.
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" The Ghost Writer, 234 The first novel-length portrait of Roth's indelible alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman, is "one of Philip Roth's best short fictions," exhibiting bursts of "exceptional virtuosity," wrote our reviewer, Robert Towers, adding that the "rich promise of its style and inventiveness is in part betrayed by miscalculations of tone and structure, by a cleverness that sometimes bites its own tail.
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Rounded out by the organist Jared Gold and the drummer McClenty Hunter (doubling on jingle bells), Stryker's Eight Track Band plays the tune at the same sauntering, medium tempo that Hathaway used; even without Hathaway's munificent voice or the boisterous horn section of the original, the tune's infectious, syncopated melody and the low-key virtuosity of this quartet's members are enough.
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Each year, as a graduate journalism professor at N.Y.U., I enjoy watching my students discover Talese's virtuosity with language as he exuberantly riffs with sentences that last more than 100 words, structures scenes in movielike fashion and, most important, demonstrates that a gifted and patient reporter can create a memorable portrait even when for weeks on end he is denied an interview with his profile subject.
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What he did during last year's postseason was poised virtuosity, with the second-highest usage rate of his career, averaging an insane 34 points per game and competing one-on-five in a Finals that could've been more competitive had his epic 51-point, 8-rebound, 8-assist Game 1 ended with a questionable call going the other way, or George Hill making a free throw, or J.R. Smith knowing where he was.
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Thomas draws significant influence from Glenn Gould, a Canadian classical pianist and composer, famous not only for his virtuosity as a 20th century classical musician, but also for his unexpected departure in 1964 from the world of live performance to embrace the studio as the future of music—one of controlled experimentation and a means of removing music from the confines of the ephemeral into that of the spatial, existing anywhere, anytime.
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I hadn't thought of her as having any kind of regional sound — she feels more like a creature of the internet to me — but as Jon noted, she and her brother make most of her music together in his bedroom at their childhood home in L.A. Her weirdness combined with her clear virtuosity, Jon said, called to mind another California oddball who worked closely with a sibling, often in his bedroom: Brian Wilson.
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Jon "Bones" Jones, for example, arguably the greatest UFC champion of all time, a much, much better fighter than Brock Lesnar could ever hope to be, and the man headlining the UFC card Lesnar is playing second fiddle for, spoke about the "millions that [return] added to my purse," since Jones gets the bulk of his paycheck from percentages from pay-per-view sales, which Lesnar's presence will drive up in ways Jones' virtuosity never could.
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The violinist Joseph Mayseder — the subject of the recently published book "Virtuosität und Wiener Charme" (Virtuosity and Viennese Charm), by the current Philharmonic violinist Raimund Lissy — also sat in the orchestra for the Ninth and many other notable performances such as the premiere of the Third "Eroica" Symphony under Beethoven's baton in 1805 and the founding concert of the Philharmonic in 1842 (where he played solo violin in the Mozart concert aria "Non temer, amato bene").
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The simple answer is that Tiepolo is in Stuttgart to at last get his due: Described during his time as the best of all living Venetian painters, he has not had a full-scale retrospective in Germany until now — in spite of the fact that one of his finest painting cycles, his fresco schemes for the Imperial Gallery and grand staircase of the palace at Wurzburg, is one of the greatest feats of painterly virtuosity that anyone has ever pulled off.
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