Mussel soup with cilantro and serrano chili cream and cinnamon-roasted pheasant reflect skillful marriages of tradition and innovation.
Mussel soup with cilantro and serrano chile cream and cinnamon-roasted pheasant reflect skillful marriages of tradition and innovation.
On the other hand, many items of folk literature, because of historic movements or overwhelming foreign influences or the mere lack of skillful practitioners of the tradition, become less and less important, and occasionally die out from the oral repertory.
Ms. Rosoff, who spoke at the museum about Mr. Brown's approach to art and life, calls his hay house installation "a genuine feat of trompe l'oeil, as skillful and illusionistic as the Western tradition can claim to be.
At Flying Cranes Antiques you learn about the Japanese tradition of jizai okimono, which had extraordinarily skillful 18th- and 19th-century metalworkers creating animals with naturalistically moving parts in bronze, silver and iron.
He was leery of professional musicians in general, preferring less slick (and frequently less skillful) performers who, to him, seemed closer to their traditions.
In some cultures nearly everyone can carry on these traditions, but some men and women are much more skillful than others and are listened to with greater pleasure.
