He was as famous in his day as a trainer of castrati as he was for his operas, and Fagioli gallantly argues in a sleeve note that learning to sing his arias is itself a lesson in technique.
Alpine Experience (00 33 479 062881) runs lessons in technique and ski guiding at Val d'Isère, with maximum group sizes of six.
Paradjanov, born in 1924 in Tbilisi, Georgia, to an Armenian family, had the benefit of the Ukrainian master's lessons in technique and, perhaps more important, in his spirit of ecstatic naturalism.
An American film short from 1949 shows a Brylcreemed politician giving an eager acolyte a lesson in electioneering techniques.
The ringside view encourages comment, making an evening here a lesson in culinary technique and conviviality.
In exchange for the volunteers' time, Mr. Hart, a voice teacher, provides a lesson in vocal technique during rehearsals.
When Balanchine created "Western Symphony" Ms. Reed made his satire of a classical adagio a lesson in strong technique and projection.
(If you're watching via DVR, it's educational to rewind a Burns film at high speed and watch the old photos scooting away from you, one after another. It's a quick lesson in his technique).
Q: Did you have to take lessons in broadcasting techniques?
The couple were given lessons in translation techniques, for which Everett proved to have a gift.
As Jonathan Spence points out in his classic book, "The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci" (Penguin, 1984), he even gave the Chinese lessons in special techniques of memorization.
