He has refined his mastery of the pitch, Cone said, and knows how to control the movement.
The result, according to Julien Jalal Eddine Weiss, an expert on classical Arab and Sufi music, was like "using African bongos in a Mozart sonata .Mr Weiss, a Franco-Swiss convert to Islam, has been based in Aleppo for the past two decades, refining his mastery of the qanun (the Arab zither) and playing with the masters of Arab classical music.
This exhibition presents him as a meticulous and obsessively curious observer of the external world, a naturally skilled draftsman and gifted painter, who strove constantly, as do all true artists, to refine his vision and the mastery of his medium.
Kim Yu-na won the women's figure-skating title with a blend of technical mastery and, above all, refined artistic sensibility that made it difficult to believe she was a teenager with the weight of South Korea on her bare shoulders.
From an early point, Mr. Camnitzer made clear that for him art was not about claiming mastery of a medium or refining an identifiable style.
Its sweeping strokes of blue, filled in with intricate blue and gold floral patterns, are the result of painstaking mastery and of a cultural sophistication refined over centuries.
He was an expert in all poetic genres current in his day, but his mastery was at its height in the lüshi, or "regulated verse," which he refined to a point of glowing intensity.
Instead of mastery or rote procedures, students are being actively challenged to investigate rich contextual problems; design, use and refine tools; model and construct mathematical processes and objects; and communicate mathematical ideas in the context of critique and debate.
Some mastery, some inaction!
I experienced his mastery.
