Word: soaringly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Child (1989) was born. A flood of commissions followed, climaxing last year with her most ambitious work, Ecstatic Architecture, for the Los Angeles Philharmonic's inaugural season at the new Walt Disney Concert Hall. Inspired by Frank Gehry's gravity-defying architecture, the piece saw Lim's musical standing soar. In November, the Festival D'Automne in Paris will premiere three new pieces, continuing a French love affair with her work. "It's a bit of an empire thing for them," Lim explains, "where they're interested in what's happening in Mongolia, in Iran ?" Which suits her just fine...
...process. The Alchemical Wedding, which elision premiered at the Melbourne Festival in 1996, shifts almost imperceptibly between Western and Eastern sounds, from contrabassoon to erhu (as bridegroom and bride), in a sliding scale of culture. With Inguz (1996), named after a Viking rune symbolizing fertility, the clarinet threatens to soar at any moment into Gershwin-like rhapsody, but gives birth to something else - music as anthropology. For her 2000 opera Moon Spirit Feasting, the composer spent time in Malaysia observing the Hungry Ghost Festival, when Chinese communities entertain ancestral spirits with a month of street theater and song. In this...
...hard it is to kill hugely expensive systems once they have established a toehold. Almost every new weapons proposal gets quick Capitol Hill approval for research and development, since this seed money is fairly small. After that, it is virtually impossible to stop, no matter how high the costs soar above original estimates. "Once a system nears the production stage it's too late," says Maine's Republican Senator William Cohen. "There's such a constituency of the Pentagon, the contractors and potential job holders that no democratically elected Congress...
...this craving is called Soda Stream. Fitted with a carbon dioxide cartridge, the shiny plastic appliance fizzes tap water into salt-free club soda. Adding flavor concentrates will make instant plain or diet cola, tonic, root beer or the popular fruit sodas. Compared with supermarket soda prices, which can soar as high as 50˘ for a 12-oz. brand-name can, Soda Stream at 15˘ per bottle is a bargain. The initial investment of $39.95 buys the mechanism and other necessary accessories...
Harris’ sax heroics made a spiky take on “The Late Great Libido” soar, and a tipsy-gaited “Oahu” dashed the car-ad ambience of its album version. The stop-and-start guitars and propulsive horns of the night’s one new song recalled Kill the Moonlight-era Spoon crossed with the best aspects of Born to Run-era E Street Band...