In the middle of each rush of cars, what might be a distinguished string of facades becomes an aesthetic dead zone.
Pat Kavanagh, a British literary agent whose hauteur, business acumen and abiding aura of mystery kept her distinguished string of writers and publishers fascinated, died on Monday at her home in London.
One of our very distinguished string faculty, who has an x-ray like vision into the working of the technical and musical preparation of her students, has a particular question I have often heard her ask.
(Tommasini) JEANNE MALLOW (Tomorrow) Though this violist comes from a distinguished family of string players (including her grandmother, the violist Lillian Fuchs, and her great-uncle, the violinist Joseph Fuchs), she has built her career on her own, with notable performances and recordings.
It was this quality that kept a string of distinguished writers and publishers fascinated.
"Old World — New World," the newest in the ensemble's long string of distinguished recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, focuses on that Bohemian composer's late string quartets, along with his "American" String Quintet and "Cypresses," a quaint, charming early cycle.
Now Mr. Schreier has returned to the Philharmonic in a new guise: as the latest in a string of distinguished conductors, mostly imported from Europe, who have conducted the orchestra's annual performances of Handel's oratorio "Messiah".
But local talent was also cultivated, and when he signed the Mississippi-born singer Tyrone Davis (no relation) the young arrangers and producers Willie Henderson and Tom Washington were put in charge of the string of distinguished hits that ensued between 1968 and 1971.
However, while these positions were held by a string of distinguished composers, they were all foreigners.
May 12 2015 The distinguished adventurers of the string-quartet world make their next New York appearance at Brooklyn's Roulette, participating in a concert of music by the American composer Mary Kouyoumdjian, whose family fled Turkey a century ago, in the aftermath of the Armenian genocide.
TOKYO STRING QUARTET The distinguished ensemble, in the midst of a series at the 92nd Street Y, performs quartets by Haydn, Toshio Hosokawa ("Blossoming"), and Brahms.
