The pair, who open at the Oak Room on Nov. 1, treat ballads as timeless meditations on life experience, in which Mr. Charlap's piano reacts seismically to his mother's pensive interpretations in which volcanic emotions tremble without breaking through the surface calm.
Mr. Kalish's ruminative interpretation of Brahms's pensive Intermezzo in B minor (Op. 119, No. 1) set the tone for songs by Schumann, Wolf, Berg and Weill.
Ms. Kole, who said she was taking the middle road, delivered a pensive but forthright interpretation that showcased her voice's glowing middle register.
Demure and statuesque, this singer and her accompanist, Don Rebic, examine one gem after another in pensive, deeply sensitive interpretations that add up to one of the most romantically satisfying cabaret shows ever created.
Demure and statuesque, the singer and her accompanist, Don Rebic, examine one gem after another in pensive, deeply sensitive interpretations that add up to one of the most romantically satisfying cabaret shows ever created.
In contrast to the raucous, guitar-oriented original, the orchestral interpretation of "Give Up The Ghost" is pensive and somber.
The work enumerates three constants of Mancini's art: an almost exclusive interest in portraiture; a pensive vulnerability; and a preference for slightly bizarre settings, where offhand arrangements of objects both invite and frustrate interpretation.
Williams's moods usually range from pensive to wistful, but he ripped off his batting gloves and threw them onto the field, upset about Hirschbeck's interpretation of the strike zone.
Her revised interpretations of "Don't Cry Out Loud" and "Evergreen" (which Mr. Williams wrote with Barbra Streisand) are smoky and pensive, more approachable when stripped of grandiosity.
Then Victoria turned pensive.
