1.   Always fascinating, his music usually took a few listens to fully absorb until drummer Gene Lake, Jr. arrived last year and supplied an immediate impact.

2.   But all too often, the music takes the place of action, filling a dramatic vacuum with instant nostalgia.

3.   But as soon as sound-shaping technology approached the threshold of convenience, popular music took the paradigms of electronic composition and ran with them.

4.   But in other ways the music took on a life of its own.

5.   But the music takes off from the extraordinary quality of the soloists.

6.   But the music took precedence.

7.   Carter has the ability to make music take on meaning, and more than once he turned something seemingly inconsequential into something profound.

8.   Every summer, new music takes over venerable settings on a festival circuit that presents musicians and fans with promising destinations.

9.   Given the Vienna Philharmonic, the familiar music took on a special aura.

10.   He simply wants to go wherever the music takes him.