No one plays this eccentric, eloquent instrument more beautifully than Savall.
Or so says Jordi Savall, a courtly 64-year-old Catalan whose lifelong study of the viola da gamba has led to the rehabilitation of an eloquent instrument that has been neglected for more than 200 years.Dating back to the 15th century, the viol looks something like a lightly-built cello.
Street art, by definition, should be by the people, for the people: in Egypt it has proved a strident yet eloquent instrument of protest.
This is what happens when The Common Man is put in contact with Werner Herzog: he stops checking the baseball scores and suddenly becomes an eloquent instrument of philosophical truth.
For many, Gielgud and Olivier were opposites, Gielgud with his eloquent voice, an instrument for the ages (of man and of Shakespeare, Olivierr with his impassioned sense of the dramatic, physical as well as emotional.
He spoke in eloquent bursts, using his voice like an instrument, his hands and eyebrows rising and falling to accentuate each note.
For its Stradivari Anniversary Concert on Saturday, the Library of Congress drew a set of notably mellow and silver-toned, Antonio Stradinstrumentsed instruments from its collection and placed them in the eloquent hands of the Toronto-based Cecilia String Quartet.
And in "Tilings," Jin Hi Kim, an eloquent, eclectic advocate for the komungo, an ancient Korean fretted zither, vividly translated her instrument's characteristic slurs and wobbles for a Western ensemble of woodwinds, strings, percussion and cimbalom.
Art Farmer, an eloquent jazz musician who was a master of the fluegelhorn, the trumpet and an instrument of his own creation called the "Flumpet," has died.
Eloquent and beautifully crafted rather than radical, MacRae's music gleams and shudders, with many low instruments – alto flute, bass clarinet, contrabassoon – making their presence felt, now ominous, now mellow and rich.
Paul Jacobs, an eloquent, versatile young organist (and the chairman of the Juilliard School's organ department), gives the instrument a thorough workout with Bach's "Clavier-Übung," Part 3.
