But the problem that Skins had from the start was trying to sustain this endlessly hardcore, controversial rebellious vibe.
"Sustaining, warming and endlessly refreshing, it should surely have had almost as many poems written to it as have been dedicated to love".
Two drummers sat on either side of a snare drum, rolling out an undercurrent of cadences, while an organist with wild hair played endlessly sustained dissonant chords, and the bass and guitar thrummed muddy harmonies that fed back on themselves.
"Modularias" is an evening of four newly commissioned stage works by Jason Cady, Joan La Barbara, Kamala Sankaram, and Andrew Raffo Dewar, who here use the synth's free-form bleeps, bloops, and endlessly sustained tones to consider the consequences of suicide, war, and xenophobia.
"Sustaining, warming and endlessly refreshing, it should surely have had almost as many poems written to it as have been dedicated to love". Her own life, and her books, have done much to fill the gap.
After months of listening to him endlessly extol someone who is not you, it's tough to sustain the nurturing spirit that's said to be part of a woman's DNA.
Mr. Ratmansky sustains the ambiguity throughout a flowing, endlessly inventive first section that occasionally recalls Jerome Robbins's "In the Night" in its presentation of different forms of love and relationships.
Even so, the political establishment and the establishment media collaborated in sustaining the pretense that out of the next endlessly hyped "race for the White House," another Roosevelt or Kennedy or Reagan would magically emerge to save the nation.
(One delivered by Ms. Barkin, playing an endlessly frustrated doctor, receives the kind of sustained applause usually reserved for acrobatic tap dancers).
Both have been endlessly quoted.
Especially in a version of "Shine on Your Shoes," Mr. Pizzarelli's scat-singing and finger-picking, Mr. Kennedy's endlessly inventive piano runs and the trio's frantic rhythmic intensity sustained a mood of pure, heavenly euphoria.
