Not that Ms. Alsop's nuanced account and the orchestra's virtuosic performance of the Fifth were in any way deficient.
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The Irish actress Lisa Dwan gave a virtuosic performance of three of these plays at the Brooklyn Academy of Music a few years ago.
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Ms. Okpokwasili's fearless writing and intense, virtuosic performance style make the story, of two black girls discovering their sexuality while growing up in the Bronx, seem torn from her own life.
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But for Marawa, a virtuosic performance artist with a bachelor's degree from Australia's National Institute of Circus Arts and more than one hoop-related world record to her name, it's a warm-up.
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Following the video for "Moonlight," the rapper has now shared a video for bonus track "MaNyfaCedGod" starring the incomparable Lupita Nyong'o, who gives the song's bare-faced honesty a virtuosic performance to match.
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And Santino Fontana, nominated for a second time, is impressing voters with his virtuosic performance as Michael Dorsey, an underemployed actor, and Dorothy Michaels, the woman Dorsey pretends to be, in "Tootsie," a role made famous on film by Dustin Hoffman.
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Often, biopics built around a single virtuosic performance make a big, unsuccessful show of trying to capture the magic of that performance overall — see Meryl Streep's Margaret Thatcher and The Iron Lady or Gary Oldman's Winston Churchill and Darkest Hour.
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Set to Esa-Pekka Salonen's electrifying solo violin piece, "Lachen Verlernt"(given a virtuosic performance from Vasko Vassilev), and his symphonic work "Nyx," the all-male "Obsidian Tear" is a breakthrough piece for Mr. McGregor, who has been the Royal Ballet's choreographer in residence since 2006.
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Here he is bringing it back to New Orleans and his own history in the third verse, while also rattling off amazing boasts and handling the beat like he's driving the foreign car he raps about: If that's not the kind of virtuosic performance capable of proving who the best rapper is, it's hard to say what would be.
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1988 – a prizewinner of the International Bach Competition in Leipzig ( (Germany)). 1991 – won the first prize at the International Nicanor Zabaleta Competition, Spain. In addition to the first place received a special prize for the most virtuosic performance. 2000 – Honored Artist of Kazakhstan.
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I was never bored. But the piece did not earn its length. The flow of events sounded arbitrary, like hearing a fragmented film score without seeing the film. Still, Mr. Lindberg writes brilliantly for orchestra, and Mr. Gilbert and the Philharmonic made the most of it in this glittering, virtuosic performance.
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Among Rév's earliest recordings made around 1947 were a series of sixteen-inch radio transcription discs for the Standard Program Library. These included a virtuosic performance of Francis Poulenc's Toccata. She performed across Europe, in Asia, Africa, and in the United States. She was a soloist with such conductors as Sir Adrian Boult, André Cluytens, Jascha Horenstein, Eugen Jochum, Josef Krips, Rafael Kubelík, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Constantin Silvestri and Walter Susskind.
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He focused on augmenting keyboard instruments, percussion, strings, even the act of conducting, with the goal of developing and implementing new technology in order to expand the function of the musical instruments and their performers. He propelled forward-thinking research in the field of musical performance and interaction using new musical and technological resources. Originally concentrated to the enhancement of virtuosic performance, research has expanded in a direction of building sophisticated interactive musical instruments for non-professional musicians, children, and the general public.
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The prelude is one of three works from Book I – along with La sérénade interrompue and La cathédrale engloutie – whose date of completion is unknown. It was first published in April 1910, along with the rest of his preludes from that book. It premiered at the Stockbridge Casino in Stockbridge, Massachusetts on July 26, 1910, with Walter Morse Rummel performing the work. ' Due to the challenging nature of this prelude, it is considered a virtuosic performance piece, and the first of this kind in his book of preludes.
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"There really is not a moment when the music fails to reflect the ministrations of the sorcerer himself", he later said. In Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Christgau saw Agharta as Davis' finest music since Jack Johnson. He called it an "angry, dissociated, funky" record built on the septet's virtuosic performance, particularly Foster's "guileless show of chops" and Fortune's performance, which he deemed the best woodwind playing on a Davis album from this decade. Reflecting on the trumpeter's 1970s concert recordings in The Rolling Stone Album Guide (1992), J. D. Considine contended that Aghartas "alternately audacious, poetic, hypnotic, and abrasive" music had endured the passage of time best.
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