With Peter Basquin on piano, he will play what he called a challenging program: a world premiere by Tamar Muskal, a New York premiere by Matthew Van Brink, the world premiere of his own flute arrangement of Debussy's Cello Sonata, a Bach partita and other works.
Mr. Gilbert began his tenure as music director in 2009 with a challenging program, featuring a premiere by Magnus Lindberg, Renée Fleming singing an early Messiaen song cycle, and Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique".
"That's given us a stability and ability to plan a challenging program," Mr. Karp said.
It's often preferable to do well in a challenging program than to be exceptional in an average one.
The physics major is a challenging program.
"We wanted a challenging program that would have teeth," said Shinn.
A challenging program in which different types of superconducting magnets are developed to meet specific requirements is in operation.
"This is indeed a challenging program," he said of the Master of Finance degree, which was launched at MIT Sloan in 2008.
It might not appreciably change your chances if you have four A.P. courses or five, provided you have taken a challenging program.
Mr. Previn, who spends some time with this student orchestra every year and has made recordings with it, chose a challenging program.
Michael Noonan, Ireland's finance minister, struck an upbeat tone, saying in a statement that the report "illustrates the ability of the Irish state to implement a challenging program effectively".
