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  • Following Beethoven's dynamic and tempos markings with scrupulous accuracy, the Quartet plays with casual virtuosity, first violinist Remeš totally unfazed by the occasional high-lying challenges that typically make even the best of the competition sound slightly uneasy.

    Laurence Vittes: Petrov, Dvorak, And Prazak: Classical Music In Southern California Laurence Vittes 2011

  • Following Beethoven's dynamic and tempos markings with scrupulous accuracy, the Quartet plays with casual virtuosity, first violinist Remeš totally unfazed by the occasional high-lying challenges that typically make even the best of the competition sound slightly uneasy.

    Laurence Vittes: Petrov, Dvorak, And Prazak: Classical Music In Southern California Laurence Vittes 2011

  • All three of the leads -- Susanna, the Countess and the irrepressible teenage page boy Cherubino -- had light, high-lying voices, and all three tended to the same kind of perky overacting.

    Opera Review: WNO's satisfying 'Marriage of Figaro' 2010

  • The killer roles are Siegfried, Tristan, and Isolde; maybe Tannhauser, which is both high-lying and long.

    What was He Thinking?? Lisa Hirsch 2009

  • That's a short, high-lying role, much shorter than Isolde, and supposedly Melba's voice was never the same afterward.

    What was He Thinking?? Lisa Hirsch 2009

  • In the following days, witnesses said thousands of security forces were trucked into the mountainous regions and high-lying grasslands as the government sought to stifle any more resistance.

    Foreign Diplomats Leave Tibet James T. Areddy 2008

  • This young Peruvian singer has an elegant, high-lying tenor, perfect for bel canto, and those exciting, crystalline high Cs -- all 18 of them -- felt like part of a seamless line, rather than hard work.

    The Place to Be if You Like Hearing High C's 2008

  • Grassland types include hydrophilous grassland on sandy riverine soils dominated by Acroceras macrum and Ischaemum arcuatum; high-lying grasslands on sand, a diverse fire-subclimax community, palm-veld with Hyphaene coriacea and Phoenix reclinata, another fire-subclimax community; Echinochloa floodplain grassland; and low-lying grasslands on clay.

    Greater St Lucia Wetland Park, South Africa 2008

  • In the following days, witnesses said thousands of security forces were trucked into the mountainous regions and high-lying grasslands as the government sought to stifle any more resistance.

    In China, a Show of Force 2008

  • In the Eastern Cape, snow was reported on all high-lying areas and some of the low-lying areas as well, said Weather SA's regional manager for the province, Hugh van Niekerk.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

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