There was the placid sound of movement in the water.
"When the quintet came out on 1949, it was a very placid and peaceful sound, coming on the end of a very frantic and frenetic era known as bebop," Mr. Shearing said in a 1995 interview on the Web site newyorkcritic.org.
Mr. Almazan, placid and serious, immersed in sound, the kind of musician who's more fascinated by text than context, was born in Havana, the son of the bass player Rafael Almazán.
In the slow movement he spun a ravishing simple melodic line with the right hand over placid chords in the left that sounded as if plucked on a harp.
If being back means hitting technically proficient shots with increasingly ordinary effort, if it means a relatively calm putting stroke, if it means sound course management and a placid existence because his marital and adultery scandal no longer comes up on or off the course, then Tiger is back.
In these pieces, placid discords conjured eerie overtones, wobbling beats and the sounds of instruments not present; Mr. Hastings added electronic static, his sounds rising above, then receding below, a wash of white noise.
In the placid glow of Solange's record, Lil Wayne sounds more himself than he has in years.
There's loads of swarthy vibrato in Dumay's solo lines, as if a gypsy singer would only declaim her song in capital letters – but that sounds at odds with the rather placid backdrop set up by Kent Nagano.
To the masses who had assembled around campfires, on lawn chairs, behind cameras, the event was unmissable not just for the unparalleled sight and sound of a shuttle interrupting the placid dark of a Florida night.
Tuesdays through Fridays at 8 p.m.; Wednesdays and Saturdays at 2 and 8 p.m.; Sundays at 3 p.m. Tickets: $60 to $95. BRANTLEY ++ 'FIDDLER ON THE ROOFromrom the moment it sounds its first word in David Leveaux's placid revival, the voice of Harvey Fierstein (who has replaced Alfred Molina in the central role of Tevye) makes the audience to prick up its ears.
