Warm, robust strings at the onset insinuated a sense of occasion.
At first they sound distant and muted, like ghost instrumental lines emerging from within the ensemble texture, and when they are heard more clearly, they are fragmented, with the invitingly robust, bright-hued string lines wrapped tightly around them.
The orchestra's chief assets — a rich, blended string sound; nimble principal winds and French horn; a robust low brass section — were instantly evident, and Mr. Lacombe marshaled them effectively.
Still, the music's greatness might not be so obvious but for Tafelmusik's fine period style, with robust yet disciplined strings, focused brasses and mellifluous woodwinds.
"These are three-string, robust instruments, have the scale dimensions of a violin, and are inexplicably pleasant to the ear," says Elwood.
"Today's improvements are in line with the string of robust economic figures we've seen throughout August.
His plainspoken, deeply satisfying account benefited from warm, mellow strings and robust brass.
But that theme takes on a more robust character when the strings surrender it to the woodwinds and brasses, and it's a short leap from there to the guitar-driven denouement.
But regardless of whether it has any legs, healthcare reform must include a robust public option without strings.
A phonetic encoding function such as Soundex or Metaphone may be used to make the match between the two strings more robust to spelling mistakes and typographical errors, at the expense of a greater number of false matches (homonym errors) [ 27, 28].
