He said orchestra members mopped themselves with wet towels during passages when they were not playing.
During orchestral passages when he was not playing, he kept looking at Mr. Dudamel.
Yet there were only brief passages when United produced the fluency for which they are known.
The bawdy drinking song alternates with fake religious choral passages when Adèle's watchful attendant checks in on the "nuns".
Joyce, some have said, was the first censor of "Ulysses," skipping objectionable passages when he read it aloud to ladies.
They gave everything to keep out France during the long passages when the host nation put them under pressure.
Though there are passages when Ms. Tharp ceases to resemble these lesser artists, it's odd how merely incidental they are.
This allows students to tackle passages that are not triggering but return to triggering passages when they are fully comfortable".
But there were also long, exquisite passages when the songs simply defied gravity, undulating mysteriously as Bjork sought rapture.
Despite her breezy tone, glints of despair kept showing through, particularly in those passages when it became clear that her immigrant parents enforced this humiliation.
There are also extended passages when the matronly Lepage moons around the stage in powder and mobcap to no obvious purpose, recalling decades-old performances by Lindsay Kemp.
