Ms. Moore, on her own, played Jerome Kitzke's "Bringing Roses With Her Words" (2009), a theatrical piece that required her to walk onstage clapping and vocalizing, and to play a vigorous, if episodic, piano line embellished with a bit of percussion, as well as shouts, whoops, purring, babbling and laughter, before leaving the stage, still singing.
There are vigorous dialogues between the piano and the rest of the ensemble, which at first speaks in unified, tandem lines that give it a single voice.
Tippett's Neo-Classicism — not to mention the prominent trumpet writing in the Presto third movement — set the stage for Shostakovich's vigorous, virtually acid-free Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor.
The great cellist Mstislav Rostropovich was the beneficiary of Britten's Sonata in C for cello and piano, given a vigorous performance here.
Nolan Pearson, in addition to giving a vigorous reading of the central piano line in Hindemith's "Kammermusik No. 2" (1922) on Thursday, brought beauty and cohesiveness to Helen Grime's angular "10 Miniatures" (2009) on Sunday morning.
No-fuss, no-muss hard bop from the guitarist Bernstein and a few of his regular associates, including the vigorous veteran players Harold Mabern, on piano, and Jimmy Cobb, on drums.
Try working up from feeling down or working off energy or sublimating--elevating feelings by doing something like practicing on the piano --or playing vigorousportrt... whatever works well for you will be helpful, and some may be helpful to other people in group activities.
The program concluded with a vigorous rendition of Schumann's popular Piano Quintet.
Mark Zuckerman's "On the Edges" (1996), a solo piano work given a vigorous reading by Peter Vinograde, applied an almost ragtime sensibility to Bachian themes and suggested an otherworldly common ground between those distant influences.
The sharp accenting, brisk tempos and vigorous give and take that made the Piano Trio so illuminating did the same for the Quartet, which also had the benefit of being a better, or at least meatier, score.
