But credit most of all Mr. Corigliano, who is a master of his materials.
Also, he is a consummate master of his materials".
Shaver is an absolute master of redeeming materials that are aesthetically intractable.
And Dominic Lieven, a master of the material and a fine writer, tells it rattling well.
He is the master of consumption, material and sensual, and by now the very epitome of decadent fin-de-siecle Vienna.
Before long, we sense that Boyd is not entirely master of his material, in the sense that the meandering plot seems to have taken charge of the author, rather than vice versa.
Mr. Kudelka is a master of his material in a work that explores, with density and richness, an unexpected score: Beethoven's triple Concerto for Piano, Violin and Cello, Op. 56, conducted with typical vividness by the company's music director, Denis de Coteau.
"Could we cultivate and recreate these authentic realms within the construct of performance?" Transcendence is, of course, what every performing artist seeks and what every audience member wants to feel: that moment when the performer is ego-less, subsumed by the art form, yet also entirely the master of the material.
Of the "Four Freedoms" proclaimed by Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, Mr Kennedy thinks that freedom from every sort of fear was what the Americans valued most; and their achievement in this period was that after enormous sacrifice and anxiety, they made their wish come true.Mr Kennedy is master of his material in a double sense.
Preparation has both direct effects -- making you the master of the material you're presenting -- and indirect effects.
