And so, while it's crisp and pleasingly emphatic, there's a sense that the performance is keeping a lid on the music's exuberance.
Its latest family production, "The Alice-in-Wonderland Follies: A Ballet Vaudeville," is a giddy, rollicking ride through Lewis Carroll's storybooks, combining classical and not-so-classical dance with music-hall exuberance and pacing.
After intermission he played Scriabin's experimental, boldly modern Fifth Sonata (1907) and captured all of the music's demonic exuberance in his breathtaking performance.
In these songs, the music carries the exuberance of hitting the road, while the lyrics are brought up short by current circumstances.
Mr. Maazel filled the music with frenetic exuberance, so much so that this festive 10-minute overture came across as positively momentous.
The dancers meld their bodies to Mr. Marsalis's score, with heel walks that accent the hips in serpentine shapes, and split jumps, mirroring the music's swinging exuberance.
There is a sound track of Coldplay, house music and collective exuberance.
As they led their respective quartets, both seemed completely enwrapped in their performance, drawing the audience inside their music with visible exuberance as they played.
There was always the music, filled with festive exuberance, celebrating sights that we on Saturday were not privileged to see.
You filled the campus with the glorious sound of music, the splendor and exuberance of dance, and the power of theater to both enlighten and entertain.
