Two very different novels by two masters of the form.
In 1995, two mismatched detectives, played by two masters of the laconic, Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, investigate a ritual killing in the Louisiana bayou.
The side-by-side comparison made possible by these twin sets not only illuminates the very different stylistic choices made by two masters of the melodramatic form, but also suggests how rapidly tastes evolve in popular culture.
Its season-opening program is definitely in the latter category: songs by two masters of eclecticism, Leonard Bernstein (from such works as "Songfest" and "Arias and Barcarolles") and William Bolcom (from the opera "McTeague," the song cycle "I Will Breathe a Mountain," and the ubiquitous "Cabaret Songs").
Aug. 1 at 8 30: Stefan Asbury and the conducting fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center lead its superb student orchestra in music by four masters of the American scene: Charles Wuorinen, John Corigliano ("Troubadours"), Joan Tower, and William Bolcom ("A Whitman Triptych").
With surprising ingenuity, the exhibition curators mix and juxtapose paintings and drawings by four masters of European Modernism who rub shoulders not only with each other but also with superb examples of Greek and Roman art, mostly from the Getty Collection.
There they were, side by side, two masters of the mound, working fast, working expertly, Ramiro Mendoza and Dan Cunningham, reliever and groundskeeper.
In a version of the game in which bowlers must take batsmen by surprise, Sri Lanka has two masters of spin and deception, Muttiah Muralitharan and Ajantha Mendis.
"Who Shot Sports" is an immersive, often dazzling survey, at the Brooklyn Museum, of sports photography by some hundred and seventy masters of the insufficiently respected genre.
The conservatism of Qing period painting was exemplified by the Six Masters of the late 17th and the early 18th century, including the so-called "Four Wangs," Wu Li, and Yun Shouping.
The organic metaphor and talk about character have been replaced by one master metaphor: that of national identity.
