An all-star ensemble _ Isaac Stern, Cho-Liang Lin, Jaime Laredo, Michael Tree, Yo-Yo Ma and Sharon Robinson _ conveys their dark, lush beauty without succumbing to the temptation of lugubriousness.
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But more often _ in Message in a Bottle, Thirteen Days and For the Love of the Game _ he wraps himself in a cloak of lugubriousness and self-importance, as if he's gunning to become the Mahatma Gandhi of overpaid actors.
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"Freedomland " has the social detail ( though none of the lugubriousness ) of a Zola novel, the jazzy, synesthetic rhythms of a Scorsese film, the slangy street moxie of a Mamet play, and the dark, sardonic humor of Wilder's classic " Ace in the Hole ."
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Yuri Temirkanov's interpretation of the Mahler First therefore owed little to tradition, which is not altogether a bad thing . ( One thing was traditional, the seating of first and second violins on opposite sides of the stage; this made a difference . ) Tempos were often bracingly fast; the third movement variations on " Frere Jacques " sounded like an exercise in grotesquerie, which is surely right, rather than an exercise in lugubriousness, which surely isn't.
