But, at the other end of the scale, there has been a trend towards swift, interval-free productions that offer ticket-buyers the chance of being on the way home (or in a restaurant) by 9pm.
It took a few minutes to crest and subside, and Mr. Wilkerson passed through provocative intervals, swift chromatic passages and long tones, played with feeling.
You're as likely to see the entire brass section of the Halle Orchestra running across the road at the interval for a swift pint as you are a room full of drunken retired policemen.
But the visitors were caught out right before the interval when a swift exchange of passes opened up space for Andres Iniesta to slip home an equaliser.
SNFs were deposited onto PMMA disks and characterized using a Cary 50 Bio UV visible spectrophotometer (Varian Inc .. Images of l-alanine crystal growth were recorded in time intervals using a Swift Digital M10L monocular microscope.
Swifter rotation and longer intervals might be better.
On Armstrong's signal, one waterfall of would-be tacklers after another were unleashed — the Ones, followed by the Twos: swift, downfield flows soon met at staggered, eerily soundless intervals by pad-wielding blockers.
Beckford headed his first from close range after a swift break following a Forest corner, made it 3-0 afthe the interval with a clever chipped finish and added a third when he shot home at the second attempt.
Accrington were served a warning when Azeez's overhead kick was hacked off the line by Davies and Ardley's side would go ahead before the interval in the extended period at the end of a swift counter-attacking break.
QPR were brighter after the interval and came close to breaking the deadlock from a swift counter-attack after 55 minutes.
Barcelona were swift to regain their composure and almost restored their advantage seconds before the interval when Messi somehow failed to apply the final touch to Villa's cross inside the six-yard area.
