Mr. Jarvi opened his program with Ravel's "Ma Mère L'Oye" Suite, a set of five graceful impressions of Mother Goose stories.
The rider keeps continual, light contact with the horse's mouth; and the intention is to convey an impression of graceful, collected action.
Its main themes include the nature of graceful behaviour, especially the impression of effortlessness (sprezzatura); the essence of humour; the best form of Italian to speak and write; the relation between the courtier and his prince (stressing the need to speak frankly and not to flatter); the qualities of the ideal court lady (notably "a discreet modesty"); and the definition of honourable love.
Nevertheless, the Zorros and rancheros and graceful hacienda life made an impression on others through the Mexican film industry, said Ms. Sanchez Korrol.
He was liquid and graceful in his bird-song impressions, as he had been in the first movement, moving from note to note with complete ease.
Barack Obama's whole tragedy is that this graceful, cerebral, ethereal man, who gives the impression that he acquired the presidency by accident and now doesn't know what to do with it, hasn't thrown anyone anywhere but has regularly been thrown, not least by the Israeli prime minister.
Among other things, "Composition 361" conveyed the impression of a great beast given to disarmingly graceful movements, like a hippopotamus in water.
His palette of silver and gold mixed with red, turquoise or purple also helps to create the impression of decorative and somewhat Middle Eastern imagery -- graceful Persian texts or Byzantine mosaics -- converted pure molecular energy (Smith).
The graceful objectivity of Joshua Tuason's dancing made a particularly fine impression in two pieces by Lane Gifford, performed by Lane & Co.: "Off White" (a trio suggesting one woman's jealousy of, and separation from, another male-female relationship) and the dance sextet "Bi-Coastal".
In 2000, when he joined the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in his teens (the youngest performer in its history), he made an immediate impression: both subdued and intense, alert and unfathomable, quietly graceful and utterly focused.
Many avant-garde players make a big first impression and then quietly disappear, but others are making graceful transitions into later life, generating as much heat today as they did when they initially arrived on the scene.
