The band's knack for openheartedness works well with television's private side, making its big show seem extemporaneous.

The only way to approach them was with humility and openheartedness, and to be honest about what I didn't know."

What a resume can't convey is his enthusiasm and - no other word seems so apt - his openheartedness.

"Wherever you go in the country painted in heart, large quantities of openheartedness and smile are served, free of charge.

After extolling openheartedness in "Affection," Mr. Richman assured his audience he would not make them participate in a group hug.

Those authors you loved once - maybe it was William Saroyan, with his sloppy openheartedness, or Ayn Rand, with those melodramas that joined pomp to imperial hysteria.

Recording under different group names, he writes his own pop standards, invoking precursors from Jerome Kern to the Pet Shop Boys while maintaining a patented blend of openheartedness and cynicism.

"I find I can participate in Christian tradition with more openheartedness," she said in an interview on Beliefnet, "because I don't feel constricted by the question Do I believe this?

Although the works were not written as far apart as the erroneous dates in the program indicate, the First (1860) has more of the openheartedness of the young Brahms than does the terser Second (1865).

To encounter his work from the 60's today, even if you are somebody congenitally resistant to this sort of art, is at least to sense the openheartedness, which for Oiticica was the reason to make art in the first place.

Mr. Miller is most at home in evoking the perspiring, penny-counting existence in Brooklyn tenements and the radicalism of the times, especially the mixture of idealism, innocence, anger, hope, openheartedness and closed-mindedness that went into the making of young Jewish big-city Communists.

Crooning against a luminescent backdrop of strings and electric keyboard, Ms. Simon, whose voice has deepened into a weathered contralto, invests this Depression-era vision of lovers clinging to each other in the darkness with the forthright openheartedness that has always been her calling card.