venturesome

Ellis, a venturesome dreamer with a promising academic future, drowns during the summer before college.

She was a pioneering professor at Mills College in Oakland, at UC San Diego and elsewhere who inspired a significant number of today’s venturesome musicians.

Even for this venturesome music director, these two weeks are unlike any other he has had at the Bowl, unlike any two weeks he or anyone would dare anywhere else.

Gentle and genial, with a deep knowledge of operas and voices, he has tried to balance his venturesome spirit with the sensibilities of audiences — to challenge without alienating the people he needed for support.

It was the most venturesome and inventive, with unusually diverse programming and audiences.