Trained as a classical dancer, Wheeldon has developed that training into a intricately robust personal style and flaunts it here to tremendous effect.
(And how would you even define that?) But John Scott's is sure to rank high among the contenders and is perhaps the most lovable, with the superbly trained St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys holding forth in festive red cassocks before the church's intricately sculptured altarpiece.
But John Scott's is sure to rank high among the contenders, and it is typically the most lovable, with the superbly trained St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys holding forth in festive red cassocks before the church's intricately sculptured altarpiece.
Even more than with most of Mr. Wilson's work, the success of any production of "Two Trains" relies on intricately synchronized ensemble work, on a percolating give-and-take among the performers that evokes the savvy looseness of a top-flight jazz band.
The arrangements, by Mr. Marsalis, were impeccable in their way: struts, two-beats and shuffles, full of traditional-jazz polyphony and intricately written horn-section riffs, like train-whistle trumpets near the end of "Joliet Bound".
They depict pastoral scenes full of fascinating peculiarities, like improbably proportioned wildcats and peacocks, intricately rendered drawings of boats and trains, and in one illustration a full baseball team.
To achieve that in this sprawling urban amalgamation of an estimated 25 million people, where long commutes by train and bus are routine, Mumbai residents rely on an intricately organized, labor-intensive operation that puts some automated high-tech systems to shame.
He started umpiring military games in Germany after World War II, attended umpiring school in Florida, umpired some spring training games for the Detroit Tigers, then busied himself, until he died in 1992, intricately detailing baseballs with India ink.
Dubbed the "gel team", these shebab (young men) have been branded prima donnas by the older generation, more concerned with applying gel to their intricately styled coiffures and handing out their phone numbers to doe-eyed female admirers than with training and winning.
BRONX PARK -- Summer train show, with model engines chugging up rocky, wooded hillsides and winding among flowers and intricately designed replicas of homes of America's storytellers and artists, including Laura Ingalls Wilder's little house on the prairie, Frank Lloyd Wright's Romeo and Juliet windmill and the farmhouse from Grant Wood's "American Gothic".
