On the first night, Jurowski's conducting increased in authority after a rather ponderous opening.
There are echoes of Ravel, too, and Adams had prefaced his premiere with two works by Ravel – a rather ponderous account of Pavane pour Une Infante Défunte, and the complete Mother Goose ballet, which, despite some intensely refined woodwind playing from the LSO principals, didn't quite hit the necessary level of exquisiteness.
Both "Solitary," a solo performed by Mr. Bell, and "Stopgap," a trio, are terribly serious and rather ponderous.
In the often rather ponderous world of music journalism, Pitchfork isn't afraid to go for a gag or something a little out of the ordinary.
Her duet with her lover, Silvio, sung here by the ardent baritone Christopher Maltman, was rather ponderous, not helped by slow tempos.
Delegates asked technical and often rather ponderous questions about compliance with the tax code, small business rates, the road fund licence tax disc, and so on.
I only really knew about Lem because of Solaris, the masterful (and determinedly laugh-free) film by the great Andrei Tarkovsky, and the rather ponderous translation of the source novel that found its way to the UK in the 1970s.
Dubugnon helpfully scored it for the forces required for Sibelius's Fifth Symphony, which Salonen conducted with total authority, though his slowing of the momentum of the blazing finale seemed rather ponderous and self-indulgent.
His answer is to develop swifter, more lethal ways to fight, including pre-emptive strikes, although he acknowledged, "Big institutions aren't swift on their feet" in adapting but rather "ponderous and clumsy and slow".
She describes his "rather ponderous manner of speaking" and various odd motions he made with his right hand as he spoke — exactly the sort of close observations, Mulcahy said, that underlay all her performances.
Ian Inglis writes that the "rather ponderous" arrangement on "Who Can See It" limits its "entertainment" value but, like "The Light That Has Lighted the World", the song is an "unequivocal statement of who he is".
