(1) Still, as executant and chief player on the credits, Scorsese must take the chief responsibility.

(2) In the attempt to humanize music, that attempt which almost every executant makes, knowing that he will be judged by his success or failure in it, what is most fatally lost is that sense of mystery which, to music, is atmosphere.

(3) The king's repeated affirmations of his dependence upon Buckingham meant that he was blamed for unpopular policies such as the u2018Spanish matchu2019 of which he was merely the executant .

(4) A half-hour of music entirely free of clichu00e9 and determined to create its own set of conventions makes things tough on executant and listener.

(5) I can best describe this book as a series of masterclasses at which we are, mercifully, not required to put our executant talents under scrutiny.