Like most sophisticated podcasts, "Origins" has high-quality sound design, which includes faint but lively background music.
On "Do Something," one of several prewar standards front-loaded in the set, Ms. McGarry explored a variable approach to phrasing over a smooth but lively background provided by the Hammond B-3 organist Gary Versace, the bassist Matt Penman and the drummer Clarence Penn.
But unlike most other opera companies, City Opera has cast the show with a whole roster of lively performers with backgrounds in musical theater.
She and her husband, Michoel, have five children, ranging in age from 2 to 12. "Nachum does a nice service for the Orthodox community," she said by telephone as her children were having a lively dinner in the background.
It recruited some lively performers with musical theater backgrounds and tapped Jeremy Irons and Juliet Stevenson, two accomplished actors with makeshift voices, as leads.
Rendered in a lively mélange of Hockneyish photomontaged backgrounds and bright, simple cartoonlike foreground figures, Wellington's compositions usually turn out to be quietly witty paraphrases of some classic French pictures -- the children on the lawn of the Luxembourg, for instance, are Matisse's dancing nymphs, in Bonpoint dresses.
THE SCRIPT -- As a slow but lively salsa plays in the background, Mrs. Ferrer says in Spanish: "No one knows Freddy better than I do.
According to the same commentator, the dialectical interventions formed a background to a lively vocabulary, a "hermetic" type of "argot", which contained "hilarious double entendres and indecent onomatopoeia", passing from "erudite beauty" to "obscene laughter".
A lively jazz band in the background guides the figures.
This Cajun barbecue joint keeps things lively, with zydeco music in the background and lots to look at.
Liv (Robin Wright Penn), his girlfriend of ten years, a melancholy, becalmed beauty of mixed Swedish and American background, has a talented, lively autistic daughter — a terrific gymnast who won't eat and can't sleep or calm down.
