He was the pillar of Rennie Harris's 2010 "Home," a hip-hop sermon on survival, and this year his supple spiritualty set the tone for Ronald K. Brown's "Four Corners".
He sings in a supple tenor and sets up complex superstructures around sweetly sustained melodies, and he draws on an international assortment of rhythms, particularly African and Afro-Caribbean ones.
Mr. Setzer's supple, flexible phrasing likewise set a tone of dreamy reverie and ebullient dash in the Ravel.
Given to dramatic, brass-rich arrangements, Mr. Scott, who died in 1979, supplied Mr. Bland with intricate musical backdrops that set his supple baritone in vivid relief.
The new album rightly glistens, its sonic parameters set by Ms. Bush's supple pianism, its lyrics firmly girded by her imagination.
Nevertheless, he's drawn to it, and no one writes better than he does about water: his prose, always supple and beguiling, takes flight when he sets sail.
Robin Ticciati's intimate, supple reading of the work now known as The Siegfried Idyll set the tone for a performance in which the Scottish Chamber Orchestra subverted the traditional associations between volume and dramatic tension.
"The supple forms of women" are directly blamed for the confidence trickery of the second story, set on the "Gay White Way" of the city's after-dark hotspots.
NEW CHAMBER BALLET The musically astute choreographer Miro Magloire's new trio, set to Dvorák's "Four Romantic Pieces," offers subtle shifts of mood and supple phrasing, which the twentieth-century works Magloire usually gravitates toward tend to lack.
A most ingenious and original solution to the moral and aesthetic problems thrown up by the cult of biographical fiction is given in John Spurling's A Book of Liszts (Seagull Books) – a brilliant set of supple variations encircling the life and career of the great virtuoso Franz Liszt.
