It touched on blues figures in its middle movement and big band jazz in its finale.
"It touched on something because it's personal.
It was a great script and it touched on all these things without getting maudlin".
Speaking to the Associated Press later in her life, she said: "It was popular because it touched on emotions.
It touched on subjects as wide-ranging as "fast food and 9/11", with music by Maria Callas, Rob Zombie and Björk.
The reason "Yes we can" worked in America was because it touched on uniquely American traits: optimism, confidence and incredible can-do.
It touched on so many issues that matter in my life, and in society generally, that the added question of what reality means became academic".
Certainly, it touched on only the surface of France's problems, doing nothing at all to redress a long history of indifference to the millions of French Muslim citizens still referred to mainly as "the immigrants".
Although the hearing didn't focus on a specific bill, it touched on two dueling proposals introduced in Congress in recent years.
"It touched on something so moving to him," Rosenberg said last week.
This was not Scholem's most acerbic riposte, though it touched on one of the central passions of his historical thinking.
