11. The attention to detail throughout is a great compliment to the expectations and attention of the audience. 12. They sometimes seem to operate on two simultaneous planes of reference, in fact, and they pay children the great compliment of not dumbing everything down for them. 13. Walker took that as a great compliment and as an understanding of who she was and what she wanted to be. 14. When the composer Harold Shapero told me the first theme in my concerto reminded him of the Bartok Third, I took it as a very great compliment. |