"We found out there's no forever," Ms. Hamilton sings in fragile tones.
Similarly, the layered sound scores by Alex Potts and Thomas Mapfumo move from an uninspired collage of bad news to effective touches like the "Ode to Joy" rendered in the fragile tones of a music box.
Particular plaudits are due to the young leads, Junichi Okada and Aoi Teshima, the latter of whom performs the film's heartbreaking theme song with innocent aplomb, her fragile tones perfectly counterpointing the stark vibrancy of the animation.
With her porcelain-shattering highs and fragile tones, she aims for the territory Annie Lennox occupied after she departed the Eurythmics.
American jazz trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker, who was noted for the plaintive, fragile tone of both his playing and his singing, was born.
Chet Baker, in full Chesney Henry Baker (born December 23 , 1929 Yale, Oklahoma, U.S. died May 13 , 1988 Amsterdam, Netherlands) American jazz trumpeter and vocalist noted for the plaintive, fragile tone of both his playing and singing.
December 23, 1929 Yale, Oklahoma May 13 , 1988Amsterdam, Netherlands Chet Baker, in full Chesney Henry Baker (born December 23 , 1929 Yale, Oklahoma, U.S. died May 13 , 1988 Amsterdam, Netherlands), American jazz trumpeter and vocalist noted for the plaintive, fragile tone of both his playing and singing.
But Teddy thought that fragile quality worked with its tone.
Much of the work is eerily spare and quiet, with instruments gravitating toward fragile sustained tones, shivery glissandos, and fractured timbres.
Karen Hansen provides accompaniment on multiple instruments, as usual, with harpsichord setting a fragile moneyed tone.
Ms. Halvorson uses a fragile electric guitar tone — it sounds barely amplified, and it's quieter than Jim Hall's — that bursts into a ball of aggressive noise every once a while.
