He's here on May 4 with a scaled-down band, a quintet, that will easily fill this blissfully unamplified performance space with high-spirited sounds.
Dixit Dominus sounds spirited and shapely, if not ideally pointed; the higher choral voices especially seem far back in the mix.
Even now, he can still sound spirited and emphatic, but his phrases are short and occasional and the words are slurred.
That is not as mean-spirited as is sounds in the context of 40m infections, because treatment need not begin (indeed, should not begin) until symptoms appear.
His innovative writing and the band's spirited performance still sound wonderfully fresh, partly because no one else ever quite managed his mercurial lightness of touch.
"I can still hear that strong, clear voice calling for me that it is now our time to stand up for the people he fought for," Rick Kahn, a former student of Mr. Wellstone's at Carleton College, said of the late senator in a spirited eulogy that sounded like a get-out-the-vote speech.
Alice was known to "Days" aficionados for her spirited, loving nature, her sound counsel, her family values, her annual Christmas tree decorating party and her homemade doughnuts.
To me, however, it just sounds mean-spirited, turning Jesus into the sort of person you wouldn't like, much less worship.
Dick Jauron, their coach, is a sound and spirited leader, but they play in the N.F.C Central, where they are looking upward at Tampa Bay, Green Bay, Minnesota and Detroit.
