Word: pleasingness
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Sunny and pleasing music continued in the second half of the program, which featured Josefowicz as the soloist in Haydn's first violin concerto. Since she has a technique that can handle the Tchaikovsky and Sibelius concertos, Josefowicz was not troubled by the simpler Haydn and focused on achieving beauty...
Laredo seems to be a better symphony conductor than a concerto conductor, since the Mozart offered him a chance to think like the concertmaster he used to be. The strings were together and the winds were together. If Laredo's choice of tempi was often less than daring, he made...
"It would be pleasing to hear that every government in the world has been overthrown," he said.
The greatest disappointment of all comes with the discovery that all the paintings in the exhibition have been removed from their permanent places in other parts of the museum. Endowed with only the most essential information, these paintings and prints in their original places were a part of a composition...
The Waverly, Berlioz's earliest catalogued work, is typical of any composer's early works: light, crowd-pleasing, conventional and devoid of individual style. Its sound blends the characteristics of the Classical and Romantic eras, but does not follow the Germanic style that preceded it. Overall, the Waverly had a...