But at crucial points a different musical idiom asserts itself.
"For Now," the closing number in the Tony Award-winning musical "Avenue Q," asserts that everything in life is temporary — even George W. Bush is "only for now".
The greatest target of his wrath is Ben Elton; rebutting comparisons for the musical thing, he asserts that more people like Osama bin Laden than Ben Elton, because bin Laden 'has at least lived his life to a consistent code of ethics'.
Pianist and musical writer Paul Roberts asserts that this prelude, along with the two that immediately precede it, forms "the central arch" of Book I's structure, since the three pieces provide the most "dramatic contrast" out of all the preludes in the first book.
Terence Rattigan was brilliantly reclaimed by Trevor Nunn in the World War II drama "Flare Path" at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, in which the musicals star Sheridan Smith ("Legally Blonde") asserted her straight play chops as a former barmaid whose Polish aristocrat husband may or may not love her.
As an instrumentalist and a singer, Armstrong asserted a level of individuality in musical interpretation, recomposition and embellishment far more radical than any that had preceded it in Western music.
The conductor James Conlon has asserted that Hitler changed the course of musical history through censorship, displacement and genocidal policies that caused the deaths of creators like Hans Krasa and Victor Ullmann, represented here.
There was political in-fighting over the institution's future, but he gradually asserted himself and won praise from Spanish music critics for his choice of operas and his musical interpretation.
In the Mozart concerto, the orchestra was joined by the deeply musical British pianist Paul Lewis, who played with a pellucid sound that asserted itself against the ensemble more with its radiant warmth than with force.
They're cute musical teaching toys for television-weaned grownups in which every syllable is asserted with the emphatic cheeky clarity of a friendly clown teaching the alphabet.
