Yet when the text turns elusive, Mr. Harbison's music is still striking for its urgency and precision.
Yet just when we hope for a precise rendition of this figure, for an argument about what exactly is distinctively novel about this social type, Lilla turns elusive and gestural.
This is a contemporary tale of love, hubris and misunderstanding as a war reporter takes his own baggage to Afghanistan, hoping to turn the elusive, unpredictable Astrid into girlfriend material, and the turmoil of political events into material for a bestselling thriller.
The concerto, completed in 1910 for the violinist Fritz Kreisler, is a dense, teeming work, by turns fascinating, elusive and, for me, confounding.
The new book is, as every speed-reading reviewer has noted, the same package as before — the wise if wooden professor, the cagey babe-scientist, the oft-naked assassin, and the ancient conspiracy newly brought to life in familiar tourist destinations, this time in Washington, D.C., rather than Paris, and turning on elusive Masonic mystics, rather than secretive Merovingian dynasts.
SXSW Music 2013 made headlines thanks to Green Day's first show since frontman Billie Joe Armstrong's stint in rehab, as well as a funk-filled turn from the elusive Prince and an outing from Dave Grohl's all-star Sound City Players.
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Perhaps this would be the elusive turning point the Yankees have sought for weeks.
Each works in a different style, bringing out unexpected colors in her dancing, by turns sensual, authoritative, elusive, and free.
But in a different way, Webern's restless music -- by turns ruminative, tormented, elusive, ravishing -- could have been enormously appropriate.
