He played magnificent solos, like a human voice and fast witty passages that sparkled above the orchestra.
Some conduct these scores as if they had answers, aggressively pointing out the witty passages or exaggerating mournful ones.
You can get it on Amazon, but no American publisher has picked up the book, a work of fiction, a kind of child's scrapbook of live experiences at freedom rallies, especially anti-Milosevic Serbian freedom rallies in Belgrade, interspersed with illustrations and highly erudite and witty passages of Balkan history.
Although a "witty" musical passage that springs a surprise on the audience and cheats it of its expectations certainly has the emotion-relieving effect that tends to produce laughter, a concert audience may occasionally smirk but will hardly ever laugh: the emotions evoked by musical humour are of a subtler kind than those of the verbal and visual variety.
Last year in the Book Review, Geoffrey Wheatcroft said the volume "contains a number of scintillatingly witty and clever passages... yet remains one of the most depressing books I have read for a long time".
Just how sorry can be seen from this volume of diaries from that last decade, which contains a number of scintillatingly witty and clever passages, and yet remains one of the most depressing books I have read for a long time.
The heart-on-sleeve romanticism and sensuality of the Second and Third Concertos give way to a leaner, more modern aesthetic, with curt, Prokofiev-like dialogue; witty, chromatic piano passages; and an orchestral lyricism tempered by the soloist's brilliant attacks.
Describing bodily functions with any degree of realism — as he did in the witty sonnet "A Channel Passage," graphically equating lovesickness and seasickness — could make you notorious.
In "Katrina Ballerina," Shaw's extravagant blasts alternate with witty call-and-response passages with Miller; there are hair-raising passages in "Joshua C".
Johari Abdul-Malimamimam of the Virginia mosque, said Mr. Awlaki's sermons were accessible, often witty explorations of Koran passages.
