Having composed pieces with titles like Keening, Coronach (a Scottish lament) and Fierce Tears, I suppose I have always been drawn to extreme emotion in music, but nothing quite prepared me for the musical reverberations of one death in particular.
When that strapping, confident football hero who has just announced that he has chosen to go to the United States Naval Academy hears his father's booming voice and looks up, his face crumples, and he dissolves into the fierce tears of a 5-year-old boy whose daddy has at long last come home.
And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
The intensity level shifted a further notch in the trio's finale, with Parker's fierce, tearing tenor-sax sound erupting over a piano trill and Clark Tracey's earthy tom-tom figures; the saxophonist held the room gripped by his famous resourcefulness as an unaccompanied improviser.
Later that month, on Aug. 18, a fierce storm tore through the Pukkelpop music festival near Hasselt, Belgium, causing three tents above stages to collapse, and killing five people.
More recently, a fierce storm tore through the Pukkelpop music festival near Hasselt, Belgium, on Aug. 18, causing three tents above stages to collapse and killing five people.
Two years ago, after fierce storms tore at the underpinnings of the Great Highway, the city created a revetment, or free-form wall, out of 12,000 tons of boulders.
A fierce fire tore through a neighborhood in Newark last night, destroying five homes, badly damaging three others and leaving more than 30 people with no place to stay, fire officials said.
From the skeletons of a few surviving houses, we could see that the wave had been about one story high here, and fierce enough to tear huge holes in the strongest of the town's concrete walls.
Grabban opened the scoring with a fierce drive that tore the netting in the top corner, before Jordan Burrow equalised after some poor defending.
It also included a fierce denunciation of apartheid ("Tears for Johannesburg").
