Word: lilt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Salsa retains the two traditional types of Cuban ensembles: the conjunto, a descendant of street-festival bands, and the charanga, a miniature symphony orchestra with the bright lilt of flutes and strings...
...careful pacing and calm control so that it moved with inexorable continuity. At the movement's highpoint, Lefkowitz displayed dazzling virtuosity in the intertwining, unbelievably intricate Kreisler cadenza. The audience was fascinated and broke into applause after the first movement. The third movement Rondo picked up a light, Viennese lilt that occasionally became reminiscent of a Bohemian dance. The orchestral exposition of the Concerto, which opens so sweetly and delicately, was meek and hesitant. But by the Rondo the orchestra had warmed up to its full spirit...
When I came here I was very much fascinated by the freedom here, all these opportunities, all these choices," Hadzilacos says, with a sarcastic lilt to his voice. "The change came through the influence of other Greeks and what happened in Greece...
With a large cast and many bursts of jumbled activity, the main challenge in the play is to the director. David Giles meets it, handling pace and actors with more than breezy authority that gives the entire evening a refreshing, spontaneous lilt. "Martha Duffy...
...really a lullaby at all, rather a hymn to the father who rarely babysits, and actually one of those rolling hills, green fields country songs with throwaway guitar lines. "Was a Sunny Day" seems obligatory, cute and Caribbean in music and tone -- even the phrasing approaches the West Indian lilt -- but its salvation is that it's not another attempt at reggae...