Brett Polegato, a baritone, and Christine Goerke, a soprano, make first-rate soloists, offering crisp diction, expressiveness and beauty of tone.
They also dry and pulverize it to make first-rate pungent garlic powder to use in dry rubs, to season your pizza dough, and so forth.
Marlborough, Repton (where the former archbishop Geoffrey Fisher was a headmaster), Rugby (home of the "Christian gentleman" and Harry Flashman) – all these ghastly Victorian foundations produce strapping men who'd make first-rate leaders of cannon fodder in the trenches, but in later life they treat their own feelings with brutal disdain, much as they'd handle servants demanding a wage rise.
These experts point, for example, to one middle-aged American who has worked for the United States military bio-defense program and had access to the labs at Fort Detrick, Md. His anthrax vaccinations are up to date, he unquestionably had the ability to make first-rate anthrax, and he was upset at the United States government in the period preceding the anthrax attack.
Still, he said, when promotions make "second-rate" hospitals seem like "the cat's meow, that's not fair".
In the past, ignoring such demands merely meant being paid to stay at home instead of making third-rate televisions, refrigerators or trucks.
John Carey, chairman of the Booker jury, whose $114,000 International Prize is to be announced next month, said, "We became increasingly aware of the huge role translators play in making first-rate fiction accessible to a global audience".
For twenty-five years, Mode, under the leadership of Brian Brandt, has been making first-rate recordings of avant-garde repertory that most record labels won't go near: Xenakis, Scelsi, Feldman, Christian Wolff, John Luther Adams, Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, and forty-one volumes to date of the music of John Cage.
It appears to me as if these movie studios have been making second-rate movies for some time, more as a hobby as far as I'm concerned.
Next Thursday the Bank of England is widely expected to make its first rate cut since March 2009, taking the base rate from 0.5% to just 0.25%, while NatWest has warned customers that negative interest rates could be on the horizon.
Signs of a strong U.S. labor market may prod the Federal Reserve next month to make its first rate hike in nearly a decade, analysts said.
