Gilbert will conduct the ensemble of the Lucerne Festival Alumni in three concerts at the Metropolitan Museum (June 3-5) that combine the great concertos by Ligeti — for piano, cello, and violin, successively — with works by such brilliant disciples as Unsuk Chin and John Zorn.
Or so he was described at the Lyon Dance Biennial last month in France, where he performed with the company of one of his most brilliant female disciples, Madhavi Mudgal.
As regards the why of the Matt app, the staffer sent us a line from Matt's weekly newsletter — where he writes: "Working with a brilliant British startup called Disciple Media, I've launched this app to build a safe, moderated, digital community where my West Suffolk constituents and I can discuss the issues that matter to them".
Next, there is the scientific Voltaire, who returned to France in 1728 and eventually became the lover and disciple of the brilliant Mme.
He was in this respect a true disciple of George Bernard Shaw, the brilliant comic playwright whose dialectical brilliance was equally on display in his dramatic criticism.
Among his disciples are the most brilliant experimental flamenco dancers of today, including his daughter Belén Maya and Israel Galvan.
A disciple of Japanese martial arts and a keen archaeologist, he is described as "brilliant... and probably a bit arrogant for knowing it".
He was a brilliant observer of how economies work, so much so that America's Founders were his disciples.
Often a seeming disciple, whether of the critics Walter Pater and John Ruskin or of the painter James McNeill Whistler, Wilde nonetheless cut a brilliant and individual figure.
A superbly gifted therapist, a brilliant writer (his "Thalassa: A Theory of Genitality" is among the best books the first generation of disciples produced) and from all accounts a warm, sweet-natured man, Ferenczi began to practice what the patriarch saw as an "outlaw" form of therapy, and brought on his wrath.
