Their concerts generally offer a mix of standard repertory and challenging modern fare, attesting both to Mr. Levine's wide-ranging tastes and to the excellence of his players.
When the Bolshoi visited during the Soviet era, Western critics could condescend charmingly to the terrible limitations of its repertory, mainly a mix of standard 19th-century works and homemade but dance-thin 20th-century story ballets.
And while no one knows what mix of standard and high-definition programming will eventually be offered via digital television, it will be the superior picture quality of HDTV that will drive the digital transition in the short run.
The governor's annual address to the Legislature was a mix of standard conservative themes that dovetailed nicely with the tax-cutting and tough-on-terrorism philosophies emanating from President Bush's White House.
True, this popular Italian tenor became an international superstar with a mix of standard arias, Neapolitan songs and easy-listening adult pop material, lovingly prepared in recording studios and replicated in arena-style concerts with amplification and theatrical special effects.
Indeed, "Business Travel 2060", a report (download here) from AirPlus, a payments company, is manna from 36,000 feet.The report is a rather strange mix of standard futurology and more fanciful projection.
The idea they helped develop in the 1970s and 1980s deemed eccentric at the time was to break the portfolio into a mix of standard and "alternative" assets, as uncorrelated with each other as possible so as to spread risk.
A safe approach would be to use a mix of standard libraries and specific non-standard libraries which are being used regularly on the instance at a given time.
Musically, the stage represented an interesting mix of standard big-room and electro (Afrojack, Nicky Romero), and others, all in one of the event's most high profile spaces.
