These extraordinary shifts in tempo were, for the most part, unanticipated.
With his very precise conducting, Mr. Frühbeck shaped each movement with an extraordinary flexibility of tempo, bringing out the faltering heartbeat suggested by the cellos and creating space for the delicate woodwind solos to unfold.
The next day held a similar tempo: extraordinary ocean scenery and plenty of not-in-Kansas-anymore moments (Bedouin women, roadside, repairing their own pickup truck; a shipwrecked dhow on a beach; minarets everywhere).
If there are any technicians in this company who can exemplify the "less haste, more speed" style needed to bring this staging into full dance focus, they are surely Ashley Bouder and Tiler Peck, dancers of extraordinary lucidity at any tempo.
He maintained his popularity through music which displayed an extraordinary variety of themes, structure, tempo and rhythm and an authentic, emotional connection that transcended mere craft, exemplified in his signature classic, "Oh, Pretty Woman," recorded on August 1st, 1964.
Here, though, each of the Etudes was set to an intensive pulse, keeping movement alive -- with extraordinary virtuosity and control -- through undulations of tempo.
But his and Bachmann's general strategy — find a route around the news media, so you can say your piece at your own tempo, on your own terms — was employed just a few months earlier, in less extraordinary circumstances, by Hillary Clinton.
"They were going: 'Tempo!
Barça quickened the tempo.
