"I'm very, very happy about having this group of pieces together here.
Mr. Biss played this brilliant 13-minute group of pieces with nimble technique and myriad colorings.
The Miller Theatre concert concentrates on a group of pieces, begun in 2003, that Czernowin has designated "Winter Songs".
A group of pieces for jazz septet, by the guitarist and composer Mary Halvorson, explored the border zones between genres with a great deal more zest.
Lively as it is, it's a familiar group of pieces that have often been seen, and it offers no surprises.
In addition to the two Vivaldi concertos, the second half of the program included a group of pieces by the French composer Robert de Visee played beautifully by Luca Pianca on the lute.
Modernism was by no means dead: Michael Weiss designed a spiffy new group of pieces for Vanguard Furniture -- saddle-stitched leather, brushed nickel hardware and ash wood, with echoes of elegant French Moderne at a mid-American price.
Part of the difficulty for computers — and humans — is that it is often hard to determine at any given time whether a group of pieces is being surrounded or doing the surrounding, and thus who is ahead.
In arias from Bach's Christmas cantatas, in traditional carols and in a fascinating group of pieces by American and German-American composers belonging to the Moravian Church, he was consistently relaxed, intimate, caressing.
At the same time, he did not play down the challenge of assimilating the material, most of which he has not sung with Ms. O'Hara and which includes a stylistically diverse group of pieces by Jerome Kern, Cole Porter and Weill.
