While the band had been rehearsing thoroughly, they had been doing so with Guy Pratt – who has worked extensively with Pink Floyd, among others – playing bass.
But no one who has followed this conductorless ensemble since its founding in 1972 will be surprised by what it can accomplish by having a group of "core musicians" make the interpretive decisions, and by rehearsing thoroughly.
When military commanders precede their troops into combat, or StreetSafe Boston's workers break up gang fights and steer kids into school, you can bet they've rehearsed thoroughly.
But the outcome was much more a matter of Obama losing than of Romney winning — because it was only Obama's passive-unaggressive refusal to parry and thrust that permitted Romney to coast unmolested to victory on his perfectly prepared, professionally rehearsed, thoroughly focus-grouped, earnestly delivered speechlets.
"It's easy," he once told The Times darkly, "to play my own, rotten self". On television series such as "The Incredible Hulk" and "Mr. Belvedere," he played a wrestler, a role he had rehearsed thoroughly before paying crowds.
I also wonder whether the savage five-note up-and-down figure that recurs in several of the symphonies — notably, in the funereal brass melody at the beginning of the Third and in the stormy second movement of the Fifth — might be traced back to the music of Cardinal Brogni's "anathema," which the composer rehearsed so thoroughly in 1903.
One obvious solution would be to offer fewer premieres and rehearse each more thoroughly.
"With Miles we never thoroughly rehearsed anything, and no one judged one another," Mr. Shorter said.
"This was possible only because we rehearsed it quite thoroughly before we began shooting".
It sounded as though only certain choice passages, such as the end of Act IV, had been thoroughly rehearsed.
Last night, employing a phrase that sounded thoroughly rehearsed, she accused Sanders of an "artful smear": the charge that she has been bought by Wall Street.
