Only a sustained quiet raised them up again, with the call to trust in the Lord now so fresh in Gloria's heart.
As sustained quiet, thick-textured string chords convey the overall calm of the scene, urban sounds intrude, with a passing fire engine, pianos playing ragtime from nearby taverns and more.
Like Mr. Vickers, the great Canadian tenor of the 1960's and 70's, he has a voice that is baritonally anchored, with ringing high notes that drop to soft (yet always tonally sustained) quiet passages, and complex, even idiosyncratic phrasing.
Thabo Mbeki, the South African president, has always been careful not to embarrass Mugabe, preferring a sustained, quieter dialogue with his old ally.
Sara, though always frail in health, managed to sustain a quiet but productive literary career of her own, doing so with considerable resilience and élan.
Here, as the choir sustained a quiet and almost continuous drone, two singers combined in the role of Narrator, singing in rudimentary counterpoint as Jesus held forth from the pulpit (Thomas McCargar, a baritone).
Unfortunately, "Simpatico" doesn't sustain the quiet intensity of the first act through its later scenes, which move to Kentucky and back, as Vinnie goes on a quest to make amends for the damage he's done, or maybe take revenge for the damage he's sustained.
They keep quiet about them.
Actors are hard-working, versatile, and often have second jobs to sustain them in quiet periods.
