Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tonight's lecture, "Sex, Love and Joy: Contrasting Perspectives," explores whether the purpose of life is the pursuit of pleasure. It includes a response by Joseph B. Martin, dean of the Faculty of Medicine...
Starting with the downbeat of the first movement of the symphony, though, critique becomes superfluous. Under Cortese's expert, if nervous, direction, the orchestra sailed confidently through the misty opening, the playful hints of the "Ode to Joy" theme to come, the fiery and furious scherzo, the graceful sweeping themes in the violins, the lyrical woodwind solos. The opening movements were filled with as much mystery and grandeur and promise as they ever were...
...movement and the final movement was much more luxurious than Cortese's probably would have been; Ozawa somehow hovered over the orchestra, distilling each phrase into crystalline clarity and infusing his boundless energy into the performers. The Tanglewood Festival Chorus and superb cast of soloists carried the "Ode to Joy" theme to breathtaking heights of expression, and the audience, riveted, thrilled in every moment...
Tomorrow, she'll be watching the game from the bench, a task that she takes no joy...
...line about Teletubbies to her brisk version of Makin' Whoopee. And the best performance came from vocalist Joe Williams, 79, who sang a swinging, confident rendition of one of his signature songs, Every Day I Have the Blues, and, a few minutes later, did a small dance of joy...