On Leyva's last event, the horizontal bar, he executed his daring moves so breathtakingly and smoothly — soaring over the bar while flipping and twisting — that the crowd could do nothing but ooh and aah.
Like its companion pieces, it has soaring soprano lines and smoothly flowing polyphony, with only occasional touches of light chromaticism and mild dissonance to betray its 20th-century provenance.
Energy prices could soar.
They were side by side on the practice range last week: Phil Mickelson and Padraig Harrington, the world's sixth- and seventh-ranked golfers, hitting shots that soared straight and high before smoothly settling to the ground as if they were feathers dropped from the heavens.
But they handle the songs smoothly, performing a lustrous "Soon It's Gonna Rain" and a soaring rendition of the show's climactic duet, "They Were You".
With the U.S. population having soared to 350 million, 2008 transportation is among the most important factors keeping the economy running smoothly.
