In his brilliant Clarinet Concerto, Magnus Lindberg exploits myriad facets of what the instrument can do, from playing soaring melodic lines to making almost rude-sounding noises.
8.24pm GMT 37 min: Ronaldo, who's been inconsequential so far (as, indeed, he has been for much of the campaign, having failed to score in six of the match qualifying matches he played), soars to try to meet a corner but the defender pevents him making a firm connection.
Onstage, two artists (including the soul-searching songwriter and front man Craig Minowa's wife, Connie) make paintings while the band plays soaring rock compositions that include bright electric-guitar parts, melancholy cello strands, and life-affirming hand claps.
He gazes enraptured at the stadium near the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, "where, they say, some of the finest games in the country are played". Soaring high on the hot thermal currents of his own rhetoric, he loses track of what words actually mean.
But it was in the group of six pieces by the creator of Argentine tango nuevo, Astor Piazzolla, in MacGregor's own arrangements, that her playing soared highest.
Virtuoso fiddle playing, soaring vocals and just plain beautiful, often plaintive, songs, have made this Illinois native one of contemporary music's most intriguing artists.
The moment where the kid playing Puck soars into the heavens is entrancing even now.
Her level of play soared when Kuznetsova led 5-3 in the second, but Stephens faltered in the 5-all game.
It was another in a succession of strong years for the N.H.L.: exciting play, soaring television ratings, record revenue and the fourth straight Stanley Cup finals between traditional hockey cities.
The visuals are bright, bold, clear, and crisp but, after hours of play, soaring through the colorful skies and coasting over the shifting sands of several environmentally diverse planets in the Lylat System, I'm not certain that there's anything here that's truly pushing the hardware.
