The orchestra responded well to his leadership in both works.
Most orchestras he conducted responded well to his no-nonsense approach.
Here, again, the orchestra responded with commitment and vigor.
Also typically, the orchestra responded beautifully, playing with clarity, warmth and intensity.
He doesn't shape the music through gesture so much as impersonate it with his whole body, and the orchestra responds in kind.
The orchestra responded strongly to his approach; indeed, the work's final bars have seldom sounded so overpowering.
"Most orchestras, youth or adult, respond almost instantly to a conductor," he said.
The orchestra responded with crackling energy and rhythmic bite.
The orchestra responded with particularly nuanced and sensitive playing.
But here the orchestra responds to you because you're dancing.