Crespin's voice was a hefty instrument, in later years not always under complete control and showing a tendency to wobble, but the sheen and the exquisite pianissimos lent it a luxurious quality ("Crespin's voice always wears mink," wrote Jeremy Sams).
Each musician had a hefty array of instruments: bass drums, tom-toms, blocks, gongs and whistles, among other things.
The point of these and many other new financial instruments was to charge a hefty fee and to furiously trade them, and no one was in a better position to do that than their Wall Street creators.
James Levine, presiding over a modern-instrument orchestra and what sounds like a hefty choir, leads a robust performance with a finely balanced solo cast: Kathleen Battle, Gosta Winbergh and Kurt Moll.
However, none of the instruments insures compliance at the individual level, and as a result hefty fines may be accrued by individuals even when they choose the socially optimal action.
Check out the hefty archive of music at www.musicaviva.com, which contains a wealth of music for stringed instruments from fiddles to dulcimers, keyboards, woodwinds and brass.
From Mr. Neidich, on bass clarinet, came two lunging soliloquies, hefty but tightly played, from a parallel sequence of "Games and Messages" for wind instruments.
Hefty fines seem inevitable.
