I believe that what I do has some effect on his actions and I have learned, in a way, to commune with drunks, but certainly my actions seem to resemble more nearly the performance of a rain dance than the carrying out of an experiment in physics.

That this abandonment takes place on a stage, during an ' artistic ' performance, is enough to associate Jacoby with art, and to bring down upon him the punishment for art ; ;

To do this successfully required great skill and a special talent for both solemn and ribald raillery, a talent not bestowed on many persons, but one with which Milton was marked as being endowed and in which, at least in this performance, he obviously reveled.

The widespread purge that has taken place the past twelve months or so among Communist leaders in the provinces gives assurance that the party officials who will dominate the Congress, and the Central Committee it will elect, will all have passed the tightest possible Khrushchev screening, both for loyalty to him and for competence and performance on the job.

And that was why, on the day of the performance, when a carriage from the royal stables called to take him to the palace, he did not bother to shave.

To insist on a level of performance in programing and budgeting completely beyond the capabilities of the recipient country would result in the frustration of the basic objective of our development assistance to encourage more rapid growth.

The piano performance on this Trout is one that really demands a search for superlatives.

Steinberg seems to have gone directly back to the score, discounting tradition, and has built his performance on the intention to reproduce as faithfully as possible exactly what Brahms set down on paper.

We would have preferred, however, to have had the rest of the orchestra refrain from laughing at this and other spots on the recording, since it mars an otherwise sober, if not lofty, performance.

Thus it is reasonable to believe that there is a significant difference between the two groups in their performance on this task after a brief `` structuring '' experience.

The announcement that the city would sue for recovery on the performance bond was made by City Solicitor David Berger at a press conference following a meeting in the morning with Wagner and other officials of the city and the PTC as well as representatives of an engineering firm that was pulled off the El project before its completion in 1959.

A voice on the loudspeaker system announced that if the rain let up the performance would resume in ten minutes.

Thus, giving grades and promotions based only on an individual's performance relative to a small local group, as is common, may reduce cooperative behaviors in the group.

Moyers was inspired to focus on the song's power after watching a performance at Lincoln Center, where the audience consisted of Christians and non-Christians, and he noticed that it had an equal impact on everybody in attendance, unifying them.

: Section 16 ( 1 )( a ) of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 ( c. 2 ) provided that it was an offence to, amongst other things, assault any person duly engaged in the performance of any duty or the exercise of any power imposed or conferred on him by or under any enactment relating to an assigned matter, or any person acting in his aid.

In a weak NL West division, the Diamondbacks failed to improve on their 2005 performance, finishing fourth with a slightly worse record than the year before.

Perhaps the manuscript by Shakespeare is a distinct work of art from the play by the troupe, which is also distinct from the performance of the play by this troupe on this night, and all three can be judged, but are to be judged by different standards.

Run-time efficiency is a topic of great interest in computer science: A program can take seconds, hours or even years to finish executing, depending on which algorithm it implements ( see also performance analysis, which is the analysis of an algorithm's run-time in practice ).

Since algorithms are platform-independent ( i. e. a given algorithm can be implemented in an arbitrary programming language on an arbitrary computer running an arbitrary operating system ), there are significant drawbacks to using an empirical approach to gauge the comparative performance of a given set of algorithms.

Mozart's Davide penitente ( 1785 ), his Piano Concerto in E flat major ( 1785 ), the Clarinet Quintet ( 1789 ) and the great Symphony in G minor ( 1788 ) had been premiered on the suggestion of Salieri, who supposedly conducted a performance of it in 1791.

The opera, which Berg completed in 1922, was first performed on December 14, 1925, when Erich Kleiber directed the first performance in Berlin.

There was praise for Diana Rigg's performance, and orchestrator Jonathan Tunick received an Oscar for his work on the score.

On January 11, 2008, Talk Is Free Theatre presented the Canadian professional premiere ( in concert ) at the Gryphon Theatre in Barrie, Ontario, with a fundraiser performance on January 13 at the Diesel Playhouse in Toronto, Ontario.

Kirshner accepted, and was treated to a performance by the Candy Store Prophets, who delivered a nonstop set of all the songs Boyce and Hart had written to date for the Monkees.

Charles ' recording is very commonly played at major sporting and entertainment events, such as the Super Bowl, and WrestleMania 2 ; Charles gave a live performance of the song prior to Super Bowl XXXV, the last Super Bowl played before the September 11 terrorist attacks, as well as during Game 2 of the 2001 World Series after the attacks.

The one occasion where the band was introduced as " The Alan Parsons Project " in a live performance was at Night of the Proms 1990 ( at the time of the group's break-up ), featuring all Project regulars except Woolfson who was present but behind the scenes, while Parsons stayed at the mixer except during the last song, where he played acoustic guitar.

The song is still included in the officially licensed scripts and scores for performance.

Chaplin's performance of a gibberish song did, however, give the Tramp a voice for the only time on film.

The day of the performance was spent practicing the song they were asked to play, the underground hit, " California Über Alles ".

" Pull My Strings " was never recorded for a studio release, though the performance at the Bay Area Music Awards, which was the first and only time the song was ever performed, was released on the band's compilation album Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death.

Her performance of the song " Embraceable You " impressed Styne and his partner, Sammy Cahn and they recommended her for a role in Romance on the High Seas, which they were working on for Warner Brothers.

I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, “ Whitney, I will always love you.

" Starman ", issued as an April single ahead of the album, was to cement Bowie's UK breakthrough: both single and album charted rapidly following his July Top of the Pops performance of the song.

" So powerful was the performance, that the band said they were not sure the song should have been used in the film, and after watching the film, they considered not playing it on future tours.

Shortly following their first performance together, the band entered the studio to record the Brown-Byrd composition, " Get Up ( I Feel Like Being a ) Sex Machine ", the song further enhanced Brown's influence in funk music, moving further away from his late 1960s funk origins.

* 1880 – First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français.

One of Friedman's most infamous concerts was a 1973 performance in Buffalo, New York ; upon performing " Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed " ( a song that lampoons feminism ), a group of what Friedman described as " cranked-up lesbians " entered into a fight with the band and forced the concert to end early while Friedman and the band were escorted off stage.

Following the film's success, Dixit became famously known as the " Dhak Dhak Girl " for her performance in the famous song " Dhak Dhak Karne Laga ".

These fees or royalties are generally paid to the songwriters ; the musicians themselves typically do not get a cut of radio royalties, even if they own a share of the performance rights, unless they wrote the song themselves.

This is most evident during live shows when Lee must play bass, supply lead vocals, manipulate keyboards, and trigger pedals during the course of a performance, as in the song " Tom Sawyer ".

The chorus of the song " Coyotes " ( written by Bob McDill, re-popularized by Don Edwards's performance in the documentary Grizzly Man ) states that " the red wolf is gone.

At the Grammy Awards of 1976, the Judy Collins performance of the song was named " Song of the Year ".

" He reprised his performance a decade later on Frank Zappa's " Memories of El Monte ," an elegiac 1963 song in which he suddenly breaks into " Earth Angel " as one of the various songs remembered.

On 22 December 2005 the BBC broadcast a live performance ( recorded the previous week ) on the Jonathan Ross Christmas show with Katie Melua filling in for the late Kirsty MacColl, the first time the band had played the song live on television.

Following a performance of the song on The Tonight Show, there was a large public outcry from Toledo residents.

The song was not used in the movie, nor was the band, the only band not to receive a call-back to perform live for the film's " Battle of the Bands " sequence, perhaps due to the fact that the Germs ' chaotic Roxy performance had featured an unscripted, full-on food fight.

The ceremony might include the singing of hymns or performance of a popular song, a Bible reading, or a poem.

For example, Elvis Costello recorded a version of Ono's song " Walking on Thin Ice ," the B-52's who drew from her early recordings covered " Don't Worry, Kyoko ( Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow )" ( shortening the title to " Don't Worry ") and Sonic Youth included a performance of Ono's early conceptual " Voice Piece for Soprano " in their experimental album SYR4: Goodbye 20th century.

The poem was an intro to a performance of the song " Imagine ", Lennon's anthem to world peace.