Augmented by a haunting piano score by Leonard Lionnet, the program is melancholy, naturally, but it is infused with hope.
Ms. Raney, who was playing her first New York engagement in 25 years, may be 72, but her voice is young, her singing infused with hope.
In her transfixing performance, she moves back and forth between a stubborn, thorny young woman fighting shame, anger and despair into a radiant being infused with hope.
More possibilities: a slow, sultry rendition of "Lover Man," in which the late-blooming jazz torch singer inside Ms. Cook rose to the fore, and an unamplified encore of "Imagine," with a skeletal piano accompaniment that she infused with hope and sweetness.
Equity markets were infused with hope in Europe on Thursday afternoon, as leaders of the Group of 20 met in London to hash out a series of agreed measures to restore the health of the global financial system.
Having paid another visit to Norway recently, she's home again, infused with hope in these grim times.
The redemptive message or fairytales in which Mom and Dad believed were their path to a life infused with hope and light.
I like hugging babies more, because you can physically pick them up and fit them into your arms and try to infuse them with hope and love.
Learning about them will infuse you with hope in life, in the future and in yourself.
Even when bed-bound, he made us laugh, challenged our intellect & infused us with hope that miracles are possible.
She gave me pep talks when I was ignored in meetings, pointed me to other women and men who would help me grow, and infused me with hope in moments I got frustrated with the primarily white population of my department.
