These were lucid, flexible performances that built through the evening, more powerful in their totality — the full, breathlessly inexorable span of the "Davidsbündlertänze," for one — than as miracles of vivid color or moment-by-moment drama.
The city's memories of him were largely eclipsed by the subsequent, epic New York career of Arturo Toscanini, but the effect of Mahler's rigorous yet flexible performances was electric.
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Mr. McAdams closed the program with an energetic, rhythmically flexible performance of Bernstein's Symphonic Dances from "West Side Story".
In the Doris Duke Theatre, the Pillow's more flexible performance space, Jessica Lang Dance presented a program of five works.
In a focused yet flexible performance, the sopranos Mellissa Hughes, Sarah Brailey and Jane Sheldon; the mezzo Abigail Fischer; and the contralto Kirsten Sollek illuminated both the claustrophobia and the ecstasy at the heart of these medieval visions.
Kirill Petrenko leads an intense yet flexible performance with a consistently superb cast, including the commanding bass Anatoli Kotscherga (in his Met debut), the velvety mezzo-soprano Olga Borodina, George Gagnidze, Ildar Abdrazakov, Vladimir Galouzine and Misha Didyk.
120, No. 2) is closer to a true duet, but the contours of the piece still emerged only in Mr. Kissin's precise yet flexible performance, particularly in a noble second movement.
Down in the basement, the 600-seat Zankel Hall, which opens in September, will provide a flexible performance space for recitalists and chamber ensembles, and the varied offerings of its inaugural season, weighted toward contemporary works, could not be more intriguing.
BRIC House, which is under the direction of Leslie Greisbach Schultz and occupies an old vaudeville theater into which the city has poured $41 million, also contains a flexible performance space where it will be possible to see dance and music from emerging and established artists largely for under $20.
Designed by the architect Thomas Leeser, the 1919 Strand Theater will now have a street-level presence, a contemporary art gallery, flexible performance spaces, a glass-walled television studio, an artist studio, a public lobby with a cafe and a media broadcasting center.
