James Levine, one of the work's finest interpreters, who last conducted "Wozzeck" at the Metropolitan Opera in 2011 (and is scheduled to lead it next season), also captures the Wagnerian resonances of the music while bringing lucid textures and disciplined execution to his performances, like the expert interpreter of contemporary music he is.
The conductor Ingo Metzmacher matches the straightforwardness of Mr. Stein's staging with a performance notable for lucid textures and precision of execution — the orchestra is of scarcely more than chamber dimensions — yet the cumulative impact of the jam-packed score is strong.
Mr. Echols makes a fiercely persuasive case against the execution of prisoners not lucid enough to understand what is being done to them.
(Especially memorable: a man with crickets Scotch-taped all over his body). Mr. Echols makes a fiercely persuasive case against the execution of prisoners not lucid enough to understand what is being done to them.
And a perfect harmony is reached in some of the miniature manuscripts of Iran, Muslim India, or Ottoman Turkey, which, in their lucid colours and fine details of execution, recall both the perfection of the calligraphy that surrounds them on delicate paper and the subtlety of the stories or poems that they accompany or illustrate.
To the Editor: I found "Executions Should Be Televised" to be a well-constructed, lucid argument in favor of the televising of executions.
That said, the performance of "The Firebird," except for some occasional careless execution, especially in the brass, was lucid, urgent and exciting.
The book is about what it is like to face one's imminent execution — it was admired by Sartre, among others, as a lucid statement of the existentialist situation — and, in this respect, it is a stranger and stronger book than "Darkness at Noon".
Lucid letter followed lucid letter.
