In any case, Mr. Rattle and the orchestra gave the Chamber Symphony, in its 1935 orchestration, a voluptuous, stirring reading.
Here it was nothing less than creation and faith, with Mr. Maxwell's stirring text, read by Ms. Michelson, bookending the dizzying sweep of her choreography.
And Wieseltier closed with a stirring reading of Walt Whitman's "Passage to India".
When you copyedit diplomatic documents with one eye on the screen and one eye on your stirring newborn; read speeches aloud on a conference call while breastfeeding; and write grant proposals at 3 a.m. next to a teething toddler, you lose your sense of boundaries.
The Rev. Sidney Lanier first tried to revive his dwindling congregation on the fringe of Manhattan's Theater District by summoning actors to the pulpit to read stirring passages from the Bible and great literature.
"I was always reading while feeding a baby, reading while stirring things at the stove, and going once a week to the public library with books at one end of the pram and the children in the other".
If the non-execs want advice, they should read the stirring letter to the FT this week from Sir Simon Robertson, lauded investment banker.
Ignoring the musty-smelling pages, I read without stirring from the couch, heresy on a Saturday afternoon, given the amount of things I thought I needed to get done.
After having read Holmes' stirring words, go back and read that pamphlet again.
That was never true for a moment of this intensely concentrated and probing reading, stirring memories of Rudolf Serkin in this hall long ago, with the arc of the first movement unerring yet everything given space to breathe.
