There's still a sense that many of these performers have yet to settle thoroughly into their characters' skins.
No doubt when the program is repeated tonight, the orchestra will settle more thoroughly and convincingly into Daniele Gatti's very flexible tempos, and the soprano Christine Schäfer will get a better measure of the hall.
After allowing an early goal, the United States national team settled down and thoroughly dominated Guatemala, 3-1, to advance to next year's final Concacaf World Cup qualifying round.
Now Piper is older, thoroughly settled down but still as bloody naive, wandering around a woman's prison walking slap-bang into jokes, faux pas and pitfalls the audience can see coming five minutes beforehand.
So for the subscription series that began on Wednesday evening at Avery Fisher Hall, Alan Gilbert led works by Haydn, Schubert and Ravel — a thoroughly settled, mainstream selection, you might think, until you looked more closely.
Part of the fun, it turns out, is being reintroduced to figures you may have last encountered in a high school classroom and realizing how thoroughly settled in your memory bank they are.
When Murray Perahia started his superlative recital at Carnegie Hall on Sunday afternoon with Beethoven's C minor Variations, it was as if to show his recent concentration on Bach was thoroughly settled into the background -- but important there.
But both composers quickly slip the bonds of music history and settle into a thoroughly up-to-date style.
By 11 30 cast members from "The Boy From Oz," "Gypsy," "42nd Street" and "Thoroughly Modern Millie," had settled in, most of them on the third floor.
"It was an exciting venture and one I enjoyed thoroughly - especially towards the end of the season when we were more settled.
