The device is by constantly juxtaposing the speeches and the discourse which these romanticRussian revolutionaries engage in with the tangle of their lives and with something even more important, which he shows through his imaginative use of children, which is that each stage of the life of a person is valuable for what it is, not what it later becomes.
Previously you could talk about four distinct piano styles at the school for the cognoscenti these were associated with Goldenweiser, Neuhaus, Flier and Oborin, though all of them would probably sound indistinguishably high-powered and romantic to non-Russian ears.