With a roster of 41 choristers and 27 orchestra players, Mr. Tritle set the tone for this reverent, vibrantly realized performance of Bach's daunting score in the first Kyrie chorus.
The audience listened to the Emersons' climactic performance in reverent silence; contrast that with the bronchial barrage that invariably greets spoken drama.
Mr. Viscardi projects a certain barroom charisma, but his monochromatic performance is too reverent.
In the midst of the half-time capering a small girl plucked seemingly at random from the audience serenaded the entire arena over the PA system with, not just a chorus, but every single word of Rolf Harris Two Little Boyss, a performance received in reverent silence and applauded thunderously at the end.
In addition to performance footage and the usual reverent testimonials, one engaging sequence of the film shows Gergiev perusing a few pages of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, showing how thirty lines of music have to be crafted into not only a single, coherent sound, but a sound that will live and catch the ear.
Younger performers were more reverent toward the songs.
(Mendy is tormented by guilt every time he feels sexual arousal but doesn't think twice about becoming a drug runner.) Their performances and Mr. Vardy's ability to be reverent when he wants to be are the film's strengths.
The performance was clean, careful and understated, verging on reverent.
Rita Wilson's performance on this debut CD is tasteful, classy, and reverent -- a songwriter's dream.
In City Opera's reverent new production, Lauren Flanigan tempers her volatile style to deliver one of her most elegant performances.
In my own case, it might have been easier to sing her live for the first time in a performance with sets and costumes so I could've really wrapped myself around the drama and portrayed this very reverent woman in a manner I found comfortable.
