Word: pleasingness
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But when Trane died in 1967, leaving Tyner to fend for himself, the mellow piano player turned vicous. He stayed that way right through the early portion of the 1970s. Albums like "sama Layuca" and "Song of the New World" lost that pleasing sound that he had created with Trane...
But within the last two years Tyner has apparently reversed himself. At least two of the four sides of "Atlantic" sounded like the Tyner of Coltrane days. The arrangements were a little silky on "Fly Like the Wind" but the music was sweet. "Trident" again was pleasing, and "Vocal Point...
Jennifer Marre's Julia stands out from the rest of the cast with Elizabethan integrity. Her singing is competent, her spoken Spanish sassy, but her forte lies in the elegant enunciation of Shakespeare's lines with a pleasing hint of an English accent. Her waiting-woman Lucetta (Annie Fine) has...
Benign Magic. The result of these efforts requires patience from a modern audience. There is relatively little dancing in this version, and it seems tame. After Balanchine, one expects this immortal bird to fly in the open grand jetés Makarova does like lightning. Instead, she uses a gentler jump...
TECHNICALLY, the most impressive aspect of Patienceis Linda Beyer's magnificent costumes. The contrast, for example, between the trailingly ethereal black and white gowns worn by the poetically enamoured female chorus and the multicolored Victorian dress they don near the end underscores the drama of their conversion from transcendental to...