The wry, gray-bearded Ulay is the most vivid supporting player in "The Artist Is Present," and his reunion with Ms. Abramovic is touching and sweet.
The Grand Theft Auto games offer a lush and graphically vivid universe where players control characters and complete violent heists and other criminal missions for crime lords.
Sprinkled throughout the report were vivid quotes from major players.
But Hanno Müller-Brachmann, a late stand-in as soloist, matched the players for vivid expression all the way.
E. O. Wilson, the renowned Harvard evolutionary biologist, has lauded digital games for their ability to immerse and challenge players in vivid, virtual environments.
For nearly a decade, as Major League Baseball has tried to solve its doping riddle, its investigators have repeatedly encountered vivid tales of star players using banned substances.
His kinetic, demonstrative conducting style is suited to music this vivid, and the Juilliard players, augmented by the Dessoff Choirs, responded with the lush textures, enveloping shimmer and vigorous sensuality that Ravel's score and its underlying story demand.
Most vivid among all those players, though, was Eric Cantona, a Frenchman who in the five years that he played for the team (starting in 1992) did the most to reignite the legendary flame of the Busby Babes.
Their music stands had little crosses on them, conveying the sense of being in a graveyard, but the music could not have been more alive: the brass was ominously vivid and, together, the players preached a dark sermon.
Mr. Spano and his players, with vivid contributions from the hefty chorus and the soloists (Christine Brewer, soprano, and Brett Polegato, baritone), gave the composer's ecstatic evocations of waves and gusts a real physical presence and argued persuasively that it should be a repertory staple.
