spontaneity

“Her enthusiasm and spontaneity delighted him. Her jokes diverted him. Her social gifts offset his abiding shyness. ... Her passion moved him. Her devotion offered him reassurance and security,” Schlesinger wrote.

Unlike “Fat Ham,” his Pulitzer Prize-winning Black American riff on “Hamlet,” this earlier piece has a loose spontaneity that makes it more dependent on the imaginative contributions of its interpreters.

Caution was not thrown to the wind, but a bracing sense of spontaneity brought freshness and a kind of excitement that Dudamel implied 19 years ago but could not yet fully implement.

And this moment, that spontaneity, is what I, as a fan and filmmaker, can’t put it into words.

Lyrically and thematically, “It’s a Ugly Come Up” is focused without infringing too much on the spontaneity that has become Shy’s trademark.