Together, these various findings paint a picture of extraordinary pressure on corporate management to sustain strings of consecutive earnings increases for as long as possible, Professor Skinner said.
As the orchestra played the slow, hushed, sustained string chords of the opera's wistful prelude, this restless child babbled to her mother.
Percussion was also an integral part of Laszlo Tihanyi's "Twenty Night Meditations" (2004), in which jagged fragments of sound are woven over sustained string tones to create an anxious, meditative nocturnal tapestry.
"In a Distant Place" by Caleb Burhans, who also conducted the Wordless Music Orchestra through the concert, moved from plinking Steve Reich Minimalism, with hints of gamelan music from soprano recorder and vibraphone, to richly melancholic sustained strings.
The final movement, "The Cause of Labor Is the Hope of the World," built to a stately, celebratory march behind a union rally at Durham Cathedral, only to drift away again in quietly sustained strings.
But it provided the league, which has sustained a string of sobering court losses in recent months, a long-awaited, albeit small, victory.
The guerrilla group whose camp was raided, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, has sustained a string of other blows in recent months that were caused by the seizure of its computerized data and by its foes' use of technology.
The Polish avant-garde tended to be less studied, less process-driven, than its Western counterpart; it had a kind of psychedelic extravagance, which came to the fore most spectacularly in Penderecki's "Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima," a sustained screaming of strings that was first heard at Warsaw Autumn in 1961.
Its 10 songs — nine titled with first names, one called "Stranger" — are hushed and unhurried, often beginning with sparse acoustic guitar picking or a lone keyboard and gradually taking on a halo of sustained orchestral strings.
Electronic booms were matched on screen by crashing waves of monochrome static; sustained, growling strings and deep bass were illustrated with slowly warping spidery nets and grids of deep pink and ice-white.
