The vigor of this portrait is balanced by several other images suggesting the malaise of a creative artist, perhaps occasioned by his struggles with Stalin's regime.
What Mr. O'Dette brought to the music of all three composers was a carefully calibrated balance of delicacy and vigor.
Mr. Zacharias, conducting from the keyboard, gave them both readings that struck a healthy balance between elegance and vigor.
Ms. Hogan, who was born in Atlanta but also lives in Chicago, sang harmonies throughout Ms. Case's set with a restraint that balanced her friend's vigor.
The violist Paul Neubauer made the most of the spotlight that Ms. Tower gave him: his tone was rich and focused, and his interpretation was a fine balance of refinement and vigor.
At the opening concert, it sounded most confident when it played alone, as in an opening account of Beethoven's "Coriolan" Overture with a meaty burr in the double basses, and a closing performance of his Seventh Symphony that achieved an enviable balance of grandeur and vigor in the closing fast movements.
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In the "Psalms," Nelsons found the right balance between otherworldly serenity and earthy vigor: the winds in the second Psalm were flawlessly blended yet pungent in timbre, and the movement's penitential mood ("He brought me up also out of an horrible pit") came through in finely managed swells of dynamics and emotion.
We may take comfort in the strength and vigor of the U.S. democratic system, with its many checks and balances, but we should resist complacency, because each has its fragility. .
Composed in 1930, the Prokofiev piece might have been tailor made for the Belcea Quartet, a group that thrives on works that demand vigor, quick reflexes and a keen sensitivity to matters of balance and nuance.
Although even greater benefits might be realized if treatments are imposed before crown vigor and live crown ratio decline, the timing will need to be balanced against higher cost of thinning denser stands and the ability of managers to identify potential crop trees.
