These four men brought beauty out of adversity, and in the process they remained unfailingly generous to other musicians, regardless of color.

Dvorak remained unfailingly generous to American musicians of all kinds.

My knowledge of modern dance is only slightly more advanced than my mother's, and the company members were unfailingly generous with me as I began working with them.

With the help of unfailingly generous librarians and archivists, I looked and looked.

Randall was celebrated as an actor and an impresario, a devoted family man, an unfailingly generous friend and co-star and a comedian of unique gifts.

He was unfailingly generous to young hacks, and a master craftsman with many apprentices.

Affron is "unfailingly generous to his subject's art and indomitability, all the while . . . expertly devastating the fairy tale in which she wrapped herself," Richard Schickel wrote here last year.

Unassuming and a even little rumpled, he is unfailingly generous and polite, with courtly, old-fashioned manners, and almost comically humble and self-effacing.

And the director, unfailingly generous in his refusal to embarrass his characters, is equally generous in sharing his sensual enthusiasm with the audience.

We have also lost a close friend who was an unfailingly generous and warm-hearted man.