With its scampering opening passage throwing up the same problems, Mozart's overture to The Marriage of Figaro wasn't perhaps the ideal choice of encore, but at least here we found out how vital the strings could sound when they really dug in.
What if the price of having a vital, well-financed string of newspapers included rare, but inevitable, sexual predation of minors?
He was never able to dominate his opponent and on his only chance to break, in the fifth game, he snapped a string on the vital point.
Law enforcement officials say the surveillance program has provided vital evidence to support a string of arrests and indictments around the country since late summer -- in western New York, in Detroit, in Seattle and, on Friday, in Portland, Ore.
Two of the works -- "Omaramor," for solo cello (1991), and the second movement of "Last Round," a vital 1996 work for double string quartet and bass, which closed the concert -- are fantasies on Gardel's "My Beloved Buenos Aires".
Public programs get cut, of course -- the sequester is already in place -- and as finance for those programs is cut, so too are the chances of effective legislation on a string of other vital issues: immigration reform, infrastructure renewal and even modest gun control.
October 10 2014 Leading off a fabulous week for string quartets is this vital young group, the Metropolitan Museum's new string-quartet-in-residence.
Reviewing a performance of Mr. Layton's work in The New York Times in 1960, Eric Salzman wrote, "Billy Jim Layton's String Quartet is as vital, as startling, and as overwhelming as if nobody had ever written a quartet before".
Of course, pulling on our heart-strings is a pretty good way to give our purse-strings a corresponding tug – vital for a charity that cares for 16,000 dogs a year at its re-homing centres and whose policy is never to put a healthy dog down.
The ensemble closed the program with a vibrant reading of selections from John Adams's "John's Book of Alleged Dances" (1994), an amusing collection of rhythmically vital and enduringly catchy character pieces for string quartet and electronic sound.
