What lifted this performance was the fresh and charming work of Mr. Dorn.
Then again, it's perhaps pointless to worry about meaning at all in this skittish, charming work.
The most unabashedly charming work is "He Understood Zen Well Enough for a Moose" (2000), by Christopher H.
Because this was by far the most charming work of art I came across in its contemporary gallery.
If "Olivo e Pasquale" is not as revelatory as Mercadante's sparkling "Due Figaro," last year's American premiere, it is still a charming work.
It's a shame, because the leads (Billy Gardell and Melissa McCarthy) are wonderful, doing unfeasibly delicate and charming work amidst the hammier, sub-comedic blows of all the others.
One charming work is "Musical" (1974), in which three foot-long metal "needles" hang from a board and are drawn by magnetic impulses to strike horizontal metal wires.
The Martin was tart, frisky and buoyant, with pert, charming work from the soloists, who also included the oboist Richard Woodhams, the bassoonist Daniel Matsukawa and the French-horn player Jennifer Montone.
Whoever approached whom, Templetown's first designs for Wedgwood proved so popular that in 1783 he wrote a (rather gushing) letter praising her "charming" work, and "expressing a wish to be indulged" with more of her designs.
