The solo cello line, too, has a lilting and sometimes soaring quality that draws on the characteristic sweetness of Mr. Ma's sound, without letting that quality undercut the work's own poignancy.
Any Name Goes to the Park, for instance, is a lovely bit of wish-fulfilment – its production values aren't particularly high, but it has a soaring quality belied by its pamphlet-thin appearance.
Perhaps the Amphion players meant to convey the bird-of-prey aspects of Ms. Thomas's "Eagle at Sunrise," but you had to wonder whether the singing solo cello line and the rising, angular violin writing should not also have evoked the eagle's graceful, soaring qualities.
Without that, the reforms amount to very little and the industry will continue its downward spiral: costs will continue to soar, quality of care will not improve, and the number of uninsured and besieged families will not stop rising.
It's all being fueled by the demand for ivory in China and Japan, and the soaring price of high-quality ivory," which has quadrupled in price since 2004 to $850 per kilo.
I loved, and still love, the soaring, Shakespearean line and musical quality to his poems; they beg to be read aloud - which is why I have recorded a CD of them.
The latest royal accounts having just set out the soaring cost of a top-quality constitutional monarchy.
As farfetched as that may sound to demographers and social scientists, a congressional panel heard yesterday that such a dire scenario is possible unless the Census Bureau manages to significantly lower the soaring costs of doing a high-quality nose count.
There is a sensual, erotic quality to the air scenes; his budding love for his fiancée, Naoko, is conveyed through the soaring flight of paper aeroplanes.
There is a sensual, erotic quality to the aerial scenes; his budding love for his fiancée, Naoko, is symbolised by the soaring flight of paper aeroplanes.
