This lively performing-arts festival will feature two dance companies this weekend.
And much of Miller's lively score, performed by a versatile six-member band, more than ever has the feeling of incidental instead of integral music.
Far and away, my favorites were BEER BURIAL POLKA because of the humor in the clue ("Lively dance performed as a six-pack is being laid to rest?") and REIGN OF TERRIER because I am owned by a terrier and I know that they do, indeed, reign.
Strictly for kids, this version is lively and engagingly performed by a young cast.
They include a mournful Pr de, a dignified Allemande and a lively Rondeau, lithely performed with elegant ornamentation.
GAIL DUFFY beamed as her students, clad in an eclectic assortment of costumes, performed lively skits about outer space that conveyed facts about different planets.
A sextet from the Knights (usually a chamber orchestra) performed lively, folkish improvisations from a work they jointly composed to accompany an exhibition at the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami Beach.
In this poignant piece the lively abstract dances performed by Ms. Hayes, Ms. Bueschel, Ms. Haselwood, Mr. Nunley and a tiny cloth puppet created by Basil Twist become metaphors for a spirit that slips away.
"Silent Movie" was a lively and very well performed and costumed series of silent-film vignettes.
Perhaps it's unsurprising that the brilliant composer-pianist Marc-André Hamelin is the latest to borrow the catchy tune for his own lively arrangement, which he performed in its New York premiere at the 92nd Street Y on Wednesday evening.
The singers also played percussion instruments in Beatriz Bilbao's "Fiesta de San Juan" (2003), a lively work the choir performed here in 2007, and in several pieces — Edgar Zapata's "Menciona'o" (1980) and Otilio Galíndez's "Arestinga" (1959) — the choir was accompanied by two small guitars (four-stringed instruments called cuatros) and percussion.
