Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given two sentences in the English language (Sentence 1 and Sentence 2). Your task is to identify the connecting word between the two sentences.

Sentence 1:Others wrote equally enthusiastic reports , with abundant praise being given to the singers as well . Sentence 2:However , there were detractors who criticised both the opera and its composer : its new style and its restless harmonic shifts into remote keys did not please all .
however