What resulted was a heightened appreciation of Rossi's innovative spirit, which combined the elegant shifting harmonies of the Italian early Baroque with a careful attention to textual detail.
"Full-on opulence and full-on techniques — it's a gift wrap moment," said Christopher Kane, referring to the crystals dangling from slim, super-light dresses and a faint fetish feeling emanating from elegant shifts fashioned out of plastic materials.
Here, a most elegant panne velvet shift captures the group's glamorous and easy attitude best.
They performed some pieces together at the keyboard, including "Twilight Rag"; then Mr. Hyman, one of the world's great specialists in early jazz piano, performed Johnson's music with well-practiced dynamic shifts, elegant and sometimes a bit too showy for the circumstances.
That's really all it can do; it has no functions other than addition because the mechanism is so simple and elegant, each paddle shifts a gear a certain amount corresponding to the numeral being added, and the aggregate of all the shifts is recorded up to 999.
Mr. Hamelin made the shift from elegant Classicism to Romantic steaminess easily, yet his approach to the two composers had qualities in common.
By 2000, the buzzwords in the industry shifted from "elegant deployment" to "robustness".
Ms. Wallen, who has branched out from slippers and blankets, showed elegant and fuzzy felt shifts in red and black and gray, with silver rivet holes at the neck.
I've never sat in a car thinking, "If only this was a nine-speed automatic", but the truth is, this was subtle and elegant at every speed, shifting deftly, making driving feel like flying.
Artfully slashed and layered shifts looked elegant for being predominantly in black jersey, but you could just as easily imagine one on a woman as she sprints across the street.
