The American percussionist, composer and bandleader Paul Motian, who has died aged 80, was perhaps most famous for enhancing the work of a brilliant jazz pianist.
Britten and his librettist curiously fold elements of Christian moralizing into this pagan story, enhancing the work's alluring strangeness.
All four portray characters over many decades, and three of the performers play multiple parts, enhancing the work's sense of archetypes; as well as being themselves these characters are always also symbols.
Recent studies suggest that this twinning mode plays an important role in enhancing the work hardening and thus improving the mechanical properties.
Whilst before we were blind prior to a post-reduction X-ray, this "new" additional role of the ultrasound (very accessible, cost effective and safe) can now aid us in our decision making, thereby enhancing the work flow of this group of patients through the department.
Identifying the barriers to supervision, addressing these, and ensuring that the style of supervision is supportive, thereby enhancing the work climate are important short term strategies, that should be affordable through careful planning.
