The overture to Janáček's bleak, prison-set opera From the House of the Dead brought intensity, especially from the two solo violins at the start, and apt sound effects from a percussion player shaking his chains, but the piece itself seemed to tick the Czech box rather than fit with the rest of the programme.
Where Mr. Zender resorts to literal sound painting, it's often vivid and apt, like the combination of harp, marimba and strings tapped with the wooden part of the bow, in a passage about frozen tears.
"Lily came by her obtuse optimism honestly, and it later served her well," Ms. Moffat writes about Lily Forster, in a deftly understated tone that, to Forster's devoted readers, will sound apt and familiar.
Mr. Blank was arrested Thursday evening, again at the park, and again for using a "sound production device without a permit," just a few hours after what turned out to be Mr. Laursen's prophetic and apt assessment.
Walt Whitman's words sound surprisingly apt as America's forces gather in the Gulf to do battle with Iraq's.
Paul Lewis should perhaps not have had the lid of his Steinway fully open for Mozart's Piano Concerto No 12 in A; the piano sound was apt to become boomy at full tilt, adding a hint of murkiness to what was otherwise a light-footed performance, Lewis's flowing yet thoughtful playing producing sparks of brilliance alongside a vibrant orchestra.
The Israeli analogy is true and apt.
That they died together is fortuitous and apt.
The review of Dave Kindred's "Sound and Fury" (March 19) notes that the book opens with an apt quotation from Edith Wharton.
Starting with its apt name, and continuing with its stripped-down sound and forthright outlook, Big Drill Car is a band that likes to keep things simple and direct.
Having pushed gargantuan dance names like Eric Prydz and Steve Angello in their earlier days, and now the likes of Deadmau5 and Carl Cox, it's the big names - and big sounds - that Cr2 are championing, and Nile Rodgers pedigree and recent crossover into a more commercial dance sound seems an apt fit.
