Playing by the authoritarian logic of state capitalism, in Russia and elsewhere, is familiar, even reassuring, he suggested.
Not much new elsewhere: the familiar overtures to both the Weber and the Beethoven operas, one speech, one award and an acknowledgment that descendants of the orchestra's founder, Ureli Corelli Hill, were in the audience.
But his schedule of performances at the Met could be scaled down sufficiently to give him time to take on an orchestral schedule elsewhere, people familiar with his thinking and that of the Met said.
There's a hint of the wacky novelty about the refrain, presaged by the canned birdy noises in the intro: "I've got two loves / And they go tweet tweet tweet tweet tweet tweet tweet tweet tweet / like little birds" But elsewhere more familiar and lasting Talking Heads tropes take root between harpsichord-like phased guitars and foot-stomping drums.
But elsewhere, when familiar Broadway selections ("Memory" from Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Cats") and pop songs ("The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," "A Time for Us") were turned into ersatz opera lite via Italian lyrics, plush arrangements and aggressive vibrato, you questioned Mr. Potts's discernment.
What amazed me most about the Alibaba IPO was not its predictable success, but that so few in the United States (and elsewhere) were familiar with Alibaba before 2014.
Elsewhere, a more familiar and casual type of address from political leaders tends to be preferred in an era of mass media.
Elsewhere, the more familiar black and white images add up to a signature of sorts, both breathtaking and serene in the ordered world they evoke.
An early-music group of venerable standing in New York and familiar elsewhere from its recordings offers its popular annual Christmas program.
It refers not to the myriad tiny plots, each farmed by a single family, that are characteristic of the Chinese countryside; but to much larger-scale operations of a kind more familiar elsewhere, such as Europe or America.
