Like Mozart's, his music asks for beauty of line, finesse of phrasing and agile command of fine detail-work.
A specialist in the Bel Canto repertory, which includes the work of Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti, Ms. Simionato was praised for her firm, agile voice; her smooth phrasing; and a vocal range so wide it encompassed the register of a soprano while retaining the meaty lower notes of a mezzo.
Ball says, "You identify gold nuggets, work with them, clarify them, integrate them, and continually feed them back". She refers to the process as "collective creation," borrowing a phrase from agile and design-thinking methodologies.
All that remains are the empty phrases and labels of Agile, not the reality.
I first heard the phrase "The Age of Agile" as the title of a talk by Professor Julian Birkinshaw of the London Business School in November 2016 at the Drucker Forum in Vienna, Austria.
Mr. Goode had canceled performances because of a hand injury last season, but he sounded in fine shape here, as agile as ever and with ideas about phrasing that made the piano line seem both lively and elegant.
"Her repertory is a treatise on variety and taste, spun by a voice of agile grace and knowing jazz inflection and phrasing," a Time magazine critic wrote in 1964, calling her an heir apparent to Ella Fitzgerald.
But the vividness of Ms. McDermott's playing -- in agile runs that were firmly colored and phrased, in bell sounds and in hymnlike strains -- suggested that Copland was thinking this sonata through its piano part.
Although such approaches can work for certain applications and may be cheaper, they work badly for complex, shifting tasks.Some of the catch-phrases and jargon of the agile movement—"individuals and interactions over processes and tools" and "customer collaboration over contract negotiation"—are frowned on by more traditional programmers.
As the love-addled Wintergreen, Mr. Garber employs his still agile tenor with a commendable appreciation of period phrasing and style.
