Perhaps those from the broad acres placed modesty before artistic greatness, as they might very well do.

Equally dead, at least in major concert halls, is the old avant-garde idea that the proof of artistic greatness is the ability to shock.

Since the early days of cinema, filmmakers have grappled with a fundamental problem: how to achieve artistic greatness on a budget.

But this is the risk he must take if he wants to strive again for artistic greatness.

History overflows with tales of patrons who have fostered artistic greatness.

But it might apply equally well to artistic greatness in dance, sculpture, poetry, fiction, theater, painting-any form of aesthetic achievement.

This is music that was written for a specific purpose, intended to give pleasure and to showcase its soloists rather than achieve artistic greatness.

Music directors envision a platform to artistic greatness.

Angry homeowners are suing Misty left and right and her dreams of artistic greatness have been ruined.

These, however, are footling matters in a biography of one whose artistic greatness and human fineness are amply documented.