slitheriness

Updated: May 5, 2025

Schilsky was barely able to cope with the difficulties of the score; he exerted himself desperately, laboured with his head and his whole body, and surmounted sheerly unplayable parts with the genial slitheriness that is the privilege of composers. When, at last, he crashed to a close and wiped his face in exhaustion, there was a deafening uproar of applause.

Henry Handel Richardson - Maurice Guest