After so much busywork, Mr. Levingston and Mr. Jacobsen reversed course for an eagerly demanded encore: Arvo Pärt's "Spiegel im Spiegel," a luminous meditation made entirely of lingering notes, consonant intervals and prayer.
(The closest piece I can think of in recent years is Helena Andrews-Dyer's Bitch is the New Black, but the lingering notes from that work are not sexual, but rather about friendship and hollowness and the vulnerability of black women).
But it blossoms into a reaffirmation of love that closes the program on a lingering note of sweet melancholy.
As the elusive final piano chords of the Kurtag dissipated, Mr. Adès played a sustained C sharp, which turned out to be the first lingering note of the slowly rippling, bittersweet accompaniment of the first song from Schumann's "Dichterliebe".
So, the very last line of this otherwise nihilistic novel is a lingering note of hope in which we hear a deliberate echo of "Huckleberry Finn," with Octavian resolving to light out for the territories.
She is comfortable at both ends of her range, whether cresting to soft, lingering high notes or dipping to dark, velvety lows.
It included the only version of "Amazing Grace" I've ever liked, taken, as one of the singers said, "at a brisk clip", no lingering over notes, no hanging about.
This adds to the pair's ability to pack texture into their workouts, and tracks such as the understated 'The Lengths', where acoustic guitar doubles with long, lingering slide notes over a big, flabby bass drum are a ramshackle joy.
I wasn't able to sample the cheese at the farm because their sales and tasting room was not yet finished, but the wedge I bought and took home had a firm, dry texture and a tangy flavor with lingering caramel notes.
One lingering grace note summed up how deep her loss cuts: even in conversation with reporters, Robert usually referred to Myra as "my sweetheart".
The place reeks of pear drops and nail-varnish remover, body-filler and plastic, with lingering after-notes of carcinogenic long-chain molecules.
