He met Tchaikovsky's already strenuous demands, as enhanced by Fitzenhagen, with his usual flair and aplomb.
Mr. Gergiev made strenuous demands on the players, taking some of the trickiest tumbling and thumping at a blistering pace.
The over-all effect would be more impressive, but the strenuous demands of the dance might require unimpeded breathing.
In response to the strenuous demands made by the United States Government and industry, the Indian government has repeatedly attempted to subvert the law.
But as Bach also said, it was composed "for music lovers and for connoisseurs, in particular," and it makes strenuous demands on both listener and performer.
Re "Plodders Have a Place, but Is It in a Marathon?" Oct. 23: We at New York Road Runners stress the strenuous, demanding nature of the marathon.
Days before the Copenhagen climate conference – where scientific reasoning will make strenuous demands on everyday life – we have all been reminded that the frontiers of technical knowledge are not in fact advanced by automatons, but by fallible human beings.
Obvious in retrospect (though not likely to be repeated often, given its strenuous demands on performers and listeners alike), the program made for an extraordinary journey, from the relatively conventional sensibility of a prodigious student composer in the First Symphony to the unfettered one of an indomitable master in the Fourth.
But this was its fourth New York concert in little more than a week, those being merely part of a larger tour, and you had to wonder at times whether a certain weariness had set in, even for players accustomed to Mr. Gergiev's strenuous demands.
Its goal is to find simple ways of deciding whether an athlete whose heart is huge has a dangerous condition that can lead to sudden death or whether the enlarged heart is a normal adaptation to strenuous, demanding exercise that allows people to perform at elite levels.
