The fine singing and the glowing playing of the orchestra were weighed down by the staging in the final scene.
When you slip a CD into the slot and press the glowing Play button, the music begins.
There is not a trace of strain in the music, and the clear-textured, glowing playing that Mr. Muti drew from the orchestra was suitably genial and effortless.
When users click the glowing play button a gong sounds and the witch starts stirring a cauldron containing a bubbling green brew.
Throughout, the glowing wood plays a double role, suggesting Western floors as well as gleaming silks in striped or checkerboard patterns.
Each ball represents a musical triad, and, with a touch of the hand, they glow and play corresponding chords.
The only way an American can be sure of getting through the day without being exposed to Glow's playing is to avoid movies, TV shows and commercials, radio commercials, phonographs, jukeboxes, disc-jocke shows of all types, Jazz, pop, mood-music.
But with the Italian league trying to recover its footing after a national match-rigging scandal, and Germany still enjoying the glow from playing host to last year's World Cup — and perhaps more importantly the revenue injection brought with it via new stadiums around the country — it could be ready to make the leap to become a top draw again.
Fused into a single, hypnotically syncopating fabric, these colored shapes twist, turn, hover, glow and vibrate, playing off the gridded infrastructure the way the horns play off the rhythm section of a big band.
Mr. Spano drew glowing, incisive playing from the orchestra.
