While there is something wonderfully touristic about going to the festival to "do Bruckner" under the baton of diverse musicians, the Bruckner series may be less fascinating and unified than the Beethoven, because that cycle will be masterminded by one conductor, the dynamic Sir Charles Mackerras, working with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
Judging by the stops he's made so far, it will never be less than fascinating.
It's actually very similar to a climactic riff in "John Wick: Chapter 2," and, exactly as in that film, the effect, despite the momentary flash of wonder that it provides, is far less fascinating than one imagines any backroom meeting to plan it would have been.
Their personal story is no less fascinating than their experiences working on hundreds of movies, together and separately — among them "Spartacus," "The Birds," "Full Metal Jacket" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf". You might want to check your auteur theory at the door; there have been few more potent examples of the below-the-line group effort that movie-making entails.
This is a time-honored idea in a particular corner of the avant-garde where conventional elements like melody, rhythm, harmonic movement and phrase structure are regarded as less fascinating than timbre, texture, duration, volume and intensity, particularly when these qualities change slowly, if at all.
As it happens, much of what people choose to say -- about their plane flights, their desires for dinner, and so on -- is less than fascinating.
Chl-derived bilin-type compounds are, thus, economically and ecologically relevant, and no less fascinating than other natural bilins.
This is a working city, but that doesn't make it any less fascinating than those great 'living museums' further north.
It was less weaselly than stoat-like a whirligig of policiestoat-like as that appeared more fascinating than substantial.
A happy alternative to great orchestras playing banal repertory is less-than-great orchestras offering one fascinating piece after the next.
