("For Your Eyes Only," a piece by John Zorn that's included in the concerts, reveals a composer with a more refined ear for instrumental color, a keener grasp of harmony, and a more convincing sense of narrative).
There are evocative songs by Graeme Miles (an anthemic Waiting for the Ferry) and Graham Moore (a vigorous Tom Paine's Bones) although in Sean Cooney they have a superb – and so far – vastly underrated songwriter of their own, with a refined ear for a haunting melody and the pointed detail in a colourful tale.
As past mix masters, Groove Armada might be expected to bring a certain slickness to this, the second of their Late Night Tales sets, but they also show a refined ear beyond their comfort zone, with such gems as Ace's "How Long" and Stevie Wonder's "Tuesday Heartbreak" stirred in, along with a few left-field surprises by Chris Rea and Will Young.
Mr. Davis's refined ear was instantly evident in the work's chaste opening bars: soft glockenspiel tones ringing over gingerly scraped crotales (antique cymbals); gentle chords played at a piano's high end; and lower piano strings bowed with a thin filament, with screws jangling among them.
MR: Maybe it's from the years of material that's been thrown at you and having such a refined ear, but you do know how to pick your material.
Thus, the study reported here, aimed at investigating the causative gene for ear size on SSC5 by refining the QTL region using higher-density markers on this chromosome and at analyzing in further detail, the association between the three candidate genes located in the refined region with ear size in the White Duroc × Erhualian F2 resource population and three synthetic commercial lines.
Any loss of vigour is, however, more than made up for by a ripening of tone: Sheers's voice is noticeably firmer now, his ear more refined.
Our findings show a more refined action of Neurod1 in the developing ear than the previously suggested simple effects on neuronal survival and differentiation [15], [16], [29].
It's a tragic picture, the most refined art lovers in the land putting their hands to their ears as a keening version of Like a Rolling Stone sets the windows vibrating – but it's hard to be sympathetic.
More refined mapping of the QTL is needed to demonstrate that HMGA2 is responsible for ear size in pig.
