Something a little more festive came from the now defunct LCD Soundsystem.
In Lucerne, the atmosphere is more that of the ideal youth orchestra, a truly festive coming together of musicians that is independent of worldly concerns, such as job security, with which everyday orchestras have to contend.
The Haydn, triumphant and festive, came across well, whereas the Stravinsky sounded slightly ragged and the Mozart too uniform, as if a steam iron had smoothed the woodwind eccentricities or the eruptive inner-voice harmonies of the second movement.
Although the holidays are traditionally a time for festive coming together, most of the characters depicted in Paula Vogel's song-trimmed drama, which opened on Tuesday night at New York Theater Workshop, are in search of loved ones lost in the fog of war or separated from family by the cruel finality of death.
As many observe the holiday throughout our country as a time for giving thanks and commemorating a festive coming together of Native Americans and Pilgrims — the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation is under threat to its water source and land by government and private entities that value profit and business over people's lives and heritage.
But really, as any good 21st-century consumer knows, the true advent of the festive season comes with the onslaught of Christmas TV adverts.
There may be strings of lights, bunting and music in Amalia Pica's first UK show, but the festive mood comes with a pang.
Although some studios try to touch on holidays throughout the year, from St . Patricks Day to the Fourth of July, the vast bulk of the porn industry's festive content comes out between Halloween anDayew Year's Eve.
Yet their tearful recollections of festive woes came back to me.
They went out for the festive season, came back and weren't where they should have been.
