Mr Berezovsky helped to pay for Mr Yeltsin's re-election campaign in 1996, befriended Mr Yeltsin's daughter and son-in-law, and had ready access to the Kremlin until the two men fell out stormily in April last year.
Tobias's music is extremely varied, at times stormily so, and I wondered whether this exuberance of imagination had anything to do with his Tourette's.
For a dancer prone to transforming herself — into a tough James Dean in Mr. Gutierrez's "Last Meadow" or a stormily sensuous force in his recent "And lose the name of action" — her plans for "Wonder" sound just right.
39) that began stormily and melted into a graceful but assertive account of the choralelike central section, with its layers of sparkling filigree.
"In a way, the room's unpredictable rise and fall corresponds to the way that music, at its best, can destabilize our sense of balance," the music critic Jeremy Eichler wrote in The New York Times, "pulling us away from the present, from our daily concerns, and sending us calmly — or stormily — adrift".
As interpreted by Alexander Lonquich and Cristina Barbuti, the opening of the Mozart had stormily aggressive passages and quicksilver volume shifts that made the work almost seem, as Mr. Widmann had promised, the descendant of contemporary music rather than its precursor.
But it was one of the judges, Carmen Callil, who stole the headlines from Mr. Roth when she stormily withdrew from the panel in protest over its 2-to-1 decision on the winner.
His only concessions to rightwing populism were his stormily applauded annual party conference verses.
Schumann's overture is marvellous and the SCO played it nimbly, stormily, with a finesse and dark urgency in the lower strings that energised the whole ensemble.
The heart beats, I sit, I eat, I talk, I open doors But in the everyday I am waiting for the imagined but stormily cargoed stores Of joy and hope a letter in your upright hand tips out and restores.
