"He is not a showy actor.
Graceful, with an almost gymnastic energy on the podium, arms wide-stretched to embrace the full orchestra, Gražinytė-Tyla is never showy, a team player but with natural authority.
Mr. Dawkins said he disliked his nickname, taken from the title of his first album, because he felt it typecast him as a high-energy, showy kind of player and gave short shrift to his affinity for the slower kind of blues.
would throw the tone; indeed, after twenty years, it was good to be reminded that the finest work comes from Robert MacNaughton, the shyest and least showy of the players.
They hook onto a young player, the showier and more ballyhooed the better, and give him their hope and devotion.
Poulenc's sonata for clarinet and piano was given a properly urbane performance by David Shifrin and André-Michel Schub that showed Mr. Shifrin to be a delightful and talented player, not an especially showy one.
Knowing that star players often dress in showy get-ups during their podium appearances, Hibbert packed something a little different — a brass monocle on a string.
And they also serve as the players, enacting, in an especially showy and colorful scene, the play that is the thing wherein Hamlet catches the conscience of the king.
(D'Angelo's longtime bassist, Pino Palladino, is probably the greatest living electric-bass player, unless you prefer rackety and showy. If you want rhythmic and melodic grace and a tone somewhere between a bassoon and a very responsive rubber band, Palladino is your man).
He explains why defensive players, who were once thought unimportant and whose roles are anything but showy, have great new value.
