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.
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.
In a voice that sounded humble even as it commanded attention, he lingered on the notes of the mode and melody with sustained quavers and lavish ornaments, answered by instrumental tags.
In the criminal complaint, an F.B.I. investigator on the case, Special Agent Warren Chiu, made a note of one lingering mystery.
She is comfortable at both ends of her range, whether cresting to soft, lingering high notes or dipping to dark, velvety lows.
A lingering, wholesome taste with notes of mango, berries and fresh sheets.
