One of the wonders of hearing this piece in this space, is how the quieter sections emerge with the greatest impact.
As played at City Center, there is an echo around the quieter sections of both the Ravel and Stravinsky scores, and on Wednesday there were a few passages where the dancers, atypically, didn't show us the choreography's musical point.
But the quieter sections (Brooks and Arlen in a haystack accompanied by Aly's plaintive mandolin) are a struggle due to the booming sound of the ironically named Acoustic Tent next door.
But the quieter sections, too, seem curt and peeled-back (one spell of maltreatment, in prison, is implied by nothing more than the scrape of a heavy lamp against the floor), and there is a rueful economy to the way in which the director tracks the passing of time: as Omar runs into trouble, his face keeps acquiring fresh cuts and bruises, and you wait for them to fade.
Bigger changes may be coming to the quiet section of LaGuardia Place where the center is located.
Occasionally — in the quiet section of the prelude from Shostakovich's Prelude and Fugue in D flat (Op. 87, No. 15), for example — Ms. Gulyak showed a capacity for delicacy and introspection.
Rather than use splicing tape to create the quiet sections between tracks on albums, Mr. Holzman recorded the empty room where the album was made.
The quiet sections were doubled from one to two sections, and new window shades for NOK 650,000 were purchased.
We recorded the loud sections deliberately kind of badly -- originally it was going to be like a handheld Dictaphone but we found a more elegant way of doing it -- and they get played back through the quiet sections as a kind of shimmer to the sound.
The 3rd Pioneer Battalion spent the next four months in a quieter section of the front.
