Sentence examples for less virtuoso from inspiring English sources

Ms. Centurión — a less virtuoso dancer than Ms. Hills, but still lovely — was all honey, blond and gold in hair, earrings, dress and shoes.

He was also responding to Glazunov's orchestrations of Chopin items, to many of the less virtuoso structural features of Marius Petipa's choreography and to the compositional precedent of Lev Ivanov's 1895 setting for Act IV of "Swan Lake," notably its "Un poco di Chopin" episode.

Had he been less a virtuoso we might know his music better.

With his records of Balakirev's Islamey and Rachmaninov piano concertos, Cyril's career seemed in a slightly higher gear than Phyllis's, but she was well able to hold her own, and, some critics would say that, although less the virtuoso than him, her musicianship was more profound and her tone more beautiful.

Jeff Brock says that Iyer looks less for virtuosos than for musicians whose playing is "intensely personal.

Even less famed virtuosos can convey the haunting qualities of some of Stockhausen's best-known works, such as Gesang der Jünglinge (Song of the Youths) - an electronic composition from 1955-56 which actually conveys human meaning instead of just technical know-how.

Mr. Crow came across as less of a virtuoso but just as crucial a factor in the music.

The wide-eyed, curly-haired protagonist, Adam Beckett (Zach Galligan), is a classical pianist with an ardent audience for his Carnegie Hall concert — an all-Chopin recital — but he's both more and less than a virtuoso.

Boseman's performance is never less than a virtuoso impersonation – onstage, he simply becomes James Brown – but it's never merely that either.

"There's no superlatives left". It was nothing less than a virtuoso performance by Woods, who rose at 4 30 a.m. so he could arrive at the course by 6. Forced to play 29 holes in all, Woods had 12 birdies and one bogey, none in the last 26 holes.

France has one of the most highly rated schools for organists, even if the high-profile stars of the past – such as Marcel Dupré, Pierre Cochereau and Marie-Claire Alain – have been followed by equally talented but less well-known virtuosos.