Under Mr. Reineke's relentless streamlining, the tunes became paramount, and you were reminded that musically Mr. Sondheim is on the highest level beside Leonard Bernstein, Cole Porter and Richard Rodgers.
His passion for technique and production is the only thing more relentless than his tunes.
The band, without a singer, finished up the first half with Duke Ellington's "Hot and Bothered," a galloping tune with relentless twists of melody.
The new tunes were relentless in their drive, careering from tightly woven verses to horizon-scanning choruses, with a lot of sharp details in between.
The songs abound in pummeling rhythms, relentless dance meters, klezmer clarinet tunes, country fiddling, clanking chimes, stretches of clattering din and passages of bittersweet lyricism.
Fortunately it features relentless afrobeat percussion, which makes any tune outstanding.
You really do believe that the year of delays has been down to the band's endless fine-tuning rather than their relentless interview commitments, so hair-splitting are its tiny decisions.
While he says he does his best to tune out his mother's relentless chorus of "get a job, get a job," Barchus sees a potentially larger victory at stake.
Bottom-Line Bulletins We are constantly fine-tuning our operations in our relentless effort to make your sickness pay.
"Narst" is all grimey synth-strings and mutant UK Funky percussion, a relentless march, a fearsome battle cry of a tune.
