Word: highlight
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Pundits on both sides of the aisle said Republican attempts to highlight the president's sexual misconduct in the course of local and statewide campaigns backfired...
...Masquerade, house committee officials said, is the highlight of the year in Adams House...
Whalen performed, with typical perfection, generally swanky-sounding lounge pieces. The highlight of these was "Danny Diamond," a song about a transvestite cabaret performer who was exposed and murdered, in which Whalen wraps haunting tones around the sliding guitar rhythms and creaky trumpet riffs...
...second half of the program, mezzo-soprano Paula Rasmussen, tenor Richard Clemont and bass Nathan Berg joined Christine Brewer along with the Handel and Haydn Society Chorus. The work, Beethoven's Mass in C, was definitely the highlight of the evening. Written in 1807 on a commission from Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy II, this was Beethoven's first setting of the Mass, and was a complete failure in the prince's eyes. Perhaps he did not appreciate Beethoven's extensive text painting (creating musical pictures of the text), and his application of personal feelings to the various parts of the mass...
...first, however, the signs seemed to point elsewhere. Opening with Sonata No. 3 in E Major by J.S. Bach, Shaham was quick to highlight his remarkably fluid sense of a musical line and his impressive control of dynamics and tempo. However, the work was fairly unimpressive as an opening to a virtuoso's concert, and Shaham often failed to infuse the more lyrical sections with enough musical vitality and frequently attacked the quieter parts too aggressively. On a positive note, the choice of an early work did reflect the rest of the programs excellent selection of music from all genres...