With its jazz-band scoring, featuring banjo and saxophone, and its sheer ebullience, "Les Larmes" is more instantly appealing, and this production wisely places it second.

Gardeners should be delighted and even the visitor who cannot tell a begonia from a hyacinth (if Wave Hill counts such an oddity among its constituents) may have a hard time resisting the sheer ebullience of the work.

Fluid balances and shapely dynamics confirmed that impression throughout the work, as did the sheer ebullience and visceral power of the Allegro giocoso and the muscularity of the finale.

Nor did Rhyssa or Dorotea call attention to those moments when, in sheer ebullience, Peter did not draw on the generator in kinetic exercises.

Interestingly, the role's dramatic undercurrents surfaced in the performances of Sandy Duncan and Cathy Rigby, who took Peter into deeper dimensions than the sheer ebullience of Mary Martin, for whom this hybrid version was made.

The sheer ebullience of his characters and the fact they are instantly recognisable also makes for compelling, emotionally charged TV.

Yet in the age of Latrell Sprewell and the American Olympic hockey team, Jackson's sheer ebullience, his eagerness to be on the spot in the big game, seem more refreshing than ever.

But not fast, and soon they caught up with him, surrounded him, brought him to a stop through their sheer ebullience.

The sheer ebullience of the music-making, the way it surged forward with an energy that was never metronomic, spoke directly to the source of Handel's genius.

Their New Orleans background, with its Indian chants, Afro-Caribbean rhythms, parade-drum virtuosity and sheer ebullience, doesn't mix well with mainstream pop.