O2 Apollo, Manchester, Sat; Hammersmith Apollo, W6, Mon & Tue JR Bobby Watson, the Kansas-born alto saxophonist, has been visiting the UK since the 1970s, when he was musical director of a particularly forceful version of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.
Wagner would abandon that style soon enough, and here he was saved by the dictates of form, which required that he end the work with a more forceful version of the music that opened it.
Farber criticized the lyricists for writing "so many cliches", and said that Milian's voice "suggests a slightly more forceful version of Janet Jackson's pant".
Upton and Ascher's crafty and forceful version draws a curtain between itself and previous interpretations of the play.
Three days later, Morgenthau, the ranking Jewish official in the president's inner circle, went to the White House to see Roosevelt with a more restrained but still forceful version of the document retitled "Personal Report to the President".
236 years later, Barack Obama presented his own forceful version of common sense in his third State-of-the-Union address.
Rather, both were hired because of their facility with the classics: van Zweden impressed audiences with a forceful, somewhat brutal version of Beethoven's Fifth, Nézet-Séguin with an idiomatic "Otello".
In this swift-moving presentation (95 minutes including intermission), playing through Sunday, 13 puppeteers out of sight above the stage combine with seven actors seated in semidarkness facing the action to render a forceful, visually captivating and clearly articulated version of Shakespeare's tragedy.
Ayten is a forceful creature.
Rousseff is a forceful presence.
