Mr. Stewart, 37, doesn't have a squared-off anchor physique or an anchor's height (he's 5-foot-7) or a deep anchor voice, but he has fine comic timing (which includes a good repertory of eye rolls and suppressed giggles) and lots of self-deprecating charm.
Criterion's yeoman work on behalf of classic cinema, as well as that of other companies (including Flicker Alley, Olive Films, and Warner Archives), makes many movies widely available that wouldn't often be seen in any city that lacks a good repertory house — and many that, even in New York, don't come around often.
Virgil Thomson, the American critic and composer, patronizingly called it "a rattling good repertory melodrama".
They had a good little repertory company in the summer.
During the 13 months he was in post, he made some good repertory choices – the Royal got its first Mark Morris ballet, for instance.
"I proposed the 'Bell'Italia' theme," Mr. Fisk said, "partly because Italy is important in the development of the guitar, but also because we're always looking for good repertory, and for works by composers who are important in the history of music, beyond the guitar.
NEWARK — I'm not a big fan of gala opening nights, which tend to be all about fancy dress, floral arrangements, celebrity guests and a feel-good repertory that extends from canon fodder to bonbon.
While a good portion of its repertory subsists on a certain manic jitteriness, there is little daring about it.
(Chinen) The Music of Horace Silver (Friday and Saturday) Harold Mabern, a pianist with a succinct and soulful take on modern jazz, should make a good captain for this repertory nod to Horace Silver, who hails from roughly the same generation, with a similar aesthetic compass.
She has commissioned a biography (from critic Jan Parry), and she is determined to get the repertory into a good shape, so that when she hands it over to Charlotte "she can take pleasure in it".
There is the Dizzy Gillespie connection: Jon Faddis, the band's director, was Gillespie's protégé and has played a good deal of Gillespie's repertory, which includes some of the most important jazz-Latin crossovers.
