Works by Zipoli were performed during an enjoyable concert at St . Pauls Chapel at Columbia University on Tuesday evening.
Tonight's outing for their new supergroup begins with one of the past decade's most ludicrous and enjoyable concert set-pieces.
At least the remaining five worked hard, playing an energetic (though not always enjoyable) concert with an Eminem-size hole in the middle.
Mr. Wilson's work, written in 1968 and revised in 1979, was part of an enjoyable concert given by the New Amsterdam Singers, a fine amateur choir, and their music director, Clara Longstreth, at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Manhattan on Thursday.
The thoughtful and enjoyable opening concert, at Galapagos Art Space in Dumbo, Brooklyn, stuck to works of the last 40 years, but the company also plans to delve into the verismo repertory with Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's charming opera "Le Donne Curiose," from 1903, in November, and Gustave Charpentier's 1900 hit, "Louise," in the spring.
At intermission inside Avery Fisher Hall, after a standing ovation for Mr. Ma and the orchestra, Wyatt Houston was won over and pronounced the concert "enjoyable".
When Charles Bruffy led the Kansas City Chorale and the Phoenix Chorale in an enjoyable a cappella concert at Alice Tully Hall on Monday evening, he seemed to be sculpturing in air: carefully molding each finely hued note he coaxed from his choristers.
The first half of the concert, while enjoyable, lacked a certain spark.
The rapt, devotional quality of the audience's laughter made it feel like a Phish concert, only enjoyable.
In the end, whatever this work's ambitions, this was a sort of old-fashioned pops concert, eminently enjoyable and in no need of apology.
The enjoyable "Little Night Music" concert that followed on Friday in the Kaplan Penthouse alternated works by Debussy and Kaija Saariaho, another Finn and the festival's composer in residence.
