The bright, buoyant first half – the titular Laughter – is all musical joy and physical exuberance, featuring commedia dell'arte in its most traditional iteration.
Instead, he captures much of the manic, musical joy of Kendrick's recent instant classic To Pimp a Butterfly, an album made for the headphone experience.
"We're here to interrupt your regularly scheduled programming with raucous moments of musical joy," Jess Brown, a trumpet player, told me.
Tonight promises to be a cheese-packed variety hamper of musical joy, courtesy of the 26 finalists vying for the honour/economic ruin of hosting the contest next year.
Kinshasa Symphony and Choir This astonishing Congolese orchestra, formed in the crucible of one Africa's most horrific conflicts, represents one of the great stories of hope, talent, hard work and musical joy flowering in the most devastating of situations.
Even at the height of his fame and technical expertise, he still played with the imagination and abandon of that ten-year-old on a homemade creation; there have been few musicians who so embodied the sound of musical joy, of playful engagement and exploration.
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But hidden within the sprawl of Phoenix -- and adjoining Scottsdale, Tempe and Mesa (collectively known as the Valley of the Sun) – are little clusters of artistic cool, musical joy and botanical beauty.
And with Levine now conducting the always splendid Met Orchestra, the evening is a musical joy.
"Right from day one, reading the script, it was 22-minutes of pure laughter, pure musical joy," said David.
Smith told NPR that he saw cash mobs evolving, but his vision for the next step was more of a mash-up experience, combining the musical joy of flash mobs with the feel-good shopping of cash mobs.
