This playful work, lively, decorative and full of brisk humor, suggests the observations of a gifted child.
But Ms. Wallen's vital rhythms and inventive melodies keep her work lively, and the players — Alicia Choi and Heidi Schaul-Yoder, violinists; Eva Gerard, violist; Mimi Yu, cellist; and Hsiang John Tu, pianist — gave her work, like the others, a firm, warm-spirited and finely polished performance.
"People, this is not working," Lively says.
I hope it works, because Lively displays a melodramatic aptitude that meshes perfectly with the story's inspiration.
In contrast to Picasso and Matisse, he gives remarkably little sign of experienced life in his works, as lively as they may be.
You watch their work and see how much they derive from choreographers now dead, but you see too that this sense of heritage is what makes their works so lively.
Stein's posthumously published poem is an amazing work — a lively, imaginative modernist epic.
In the atmospheric "Glass Pieces, Philip Glasss's repetitive music lends that 1983 work a lively urban beat.
Tells how books, once the work of lively authors, are now "developed" by many specialists and editors.
Mr. Tomaselli is clearly trying to stretch himself in this new work, with lively if uneven results.
Richard Goode was the soloist in the Mozart, and he gave the work a lively reading that breathed and danced.
