The hen appeared to have no doubts as to her duties and was quick to settle down to the performance of them.

One part of her audience was totally engaged, the connoisseur witnessing a peculiarly fine performance of some ancient classic, the other part, the guest of the connoisseur, attentive as one who must take an intelligent interest in that which he does not fully understand.

The pain and distress associated with the performance may easily give the wife a deep-seated dread of marital relations and cause her, unconsciously, to make the sex act unpleasant and difficult for both by exercising her vaginal muscles to complicate his penetration instead of relaxing them to facilitate it.

Her ostensible indifference to and rebellion against suggestions and criticisms by anyone except peer friends during adolescence are the manifestations, in her adolescence, of her having been indoctrinated in childhood to feel shame, if not guilt, for failing to behave in a manner acceptable to, and judged by, the performance of her nursery- and elementary-school peer friends.

Later that year at the Secular Games, at the performance of the Troy Pageant, Messalina attended the event with her son Britannicus.

The head of NBC took notice of Grant's performance and called her manager to book her for her own Christmas special.

She dedicated her performance to the victims of 9 / 11, and officially started the Demolition Derby.

Bernadette Peters steps into the six-month-old revival of ' A Little Night Music ' with a transfixing performance, playing it as if she realizes her character's onstage billing -- " the one and only Desiree Armfeldt " -- is cliched hyperbole.

Also, according to Sondheim, " Lansbury was so insecure onstage, and unhappy with her performance, that we considered replacing her.

In 1996, Love starred in The People vs. Larry Flynt and was nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance.

According to Love, her main focus in the band from very early on was on lyrics: " For me, I was just about lyrics and performance.

Chicano performance art blends humor and pathos for tragi-comic effect as shown by Los Angeles ' comedy troupe Culture Clash and Mexican-born performance artist Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Nao Bustamante is a Chicana Artist known internationally for her conceptual art pieces and as a participant in Work of Art: The next Great Artist produced by Sarah Jessica Parker.

Flockhart received a Clarence Derwent Award for her performance.

In 2003, she reprised her role as Dylan Sanders in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance in Olive, the Other Reindeer and appeared with Ben Stiller in Duplex in 2003.

She received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Pillow Talk, won three Henrietta Awards ( World Film Favorite ), a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Legend Award from the Society of Singers, Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award and, in 1989, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.

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.

She is cited to have worried if she was pleasing him and confronted him on her performance.

We may take her with us -- to California.

He wouldn't even dance with her at Gavin's party.

He kissed her also, and with deep tenderness.

He wanted no more sentimental scenes with her.

She wiped it off with the sleeve of her coat.

Then she turned the station wagon around and headed it back down the hill, with the village as her ostensible destination.

She remembered little of her previous journey there with Grace, and she could but hope that her dedication to her mission would enable her to accomplish it.

Was it not possible, after all, that the forest was in league with her and her child that its sympathy lay with the Culvers that she had erred in failing to understand this??

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

Having persisted too long in deliberate ignorance and denial of the forces that threatened her, Pamela was relieved now to admit their potency and to be taking definite steps toward grappling with them.

His presence would have interfered with her duty.

It circled her thighs, exploring with its icy tentacles.

It entered her body with the ghastly intimacy of an incubus, and its particles, spreading, creeping, crawling, joined themselves into steel bands that constricted her knees so tightly that they ached ; ;

He caught her eye, came back around the car with the boot-wearer ; ;

And even with her limited knowledge of such things, she knew that the car could be repaired there ; ;

Then, with a shrug of pretended indifference, she took a compact from her purse and went through the motions of fixing her make-up.

He was in earnest conversation with her father and the old vaquero, Luis Hernandez.

It was recorded in her presence on October 21, 1958, at Decca's Pythian Temple, with Dick Jacob, Coral-Brunswick's new head of Artists and Repertoire, serving as both producer and conductor of the 18-piece orchestra, which included members of the New York Symphony Orchestra, NBC Television's house orchestra and Abraham " Boomie " Richman, formerly of Benny Goodman's band.

To mark the 20th anniversary of her debut album Little Earthquakes ( 1992 ), Amos is releasing an album of songs from her back catalogue re-worked and re-recorded with the Metropole Orchestra.

She has recorded with Yellow Magic Orchestra and its members Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono, and Yukihiro Takahashi, as well as Swing Out Sister, Pat Metheny, The Chieftains, Lyle Mays, members of Little Feat, David Sylvian, Mick Karn, Kenji Omura, Gil Goldstein, Toninho Horta, Mino Cinelu, Jeff Bova, Charlie Haden, Peter Erskine, Anthony Jackson, David Rhodes, Bill Frisell, Thomas Dolby, the band Quruli, Rei Harakami as yanokami, and her daughter Miu Sakamoto.

Chick Webb died on June 16, 1939, and his band was renamed " Ella and her Famous Orchestra " with Ella taking on the role of nominal bandleader.

His post-Beatles career included work with Paul McCartney ( including Band On The Run, which netted Emerick another Grammy, London Town, and Flaming Pie ), Elvis Costello ( for whom he produced Imperial Bedroom and All This Useless Beauty ), Badfinger, Art Garfunkel, America, Gino Vannelli, Supertramp, Cheap Trick, Nazareth, Chris Bell, Split Enz, Big Country, Gentle Giant, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Ultravox, Matthew Fisher's first solo album " Journey's End ," Kate Bush's demo tape to EMI, which landed her a record deal, and Jeff Beck, as well as Nellie McKay's critically acclaimed 2004 debut CD Get Away from Me.

The 1930s was even more fruitful, with the Concerto for Two Pianos, Choeurs, Saxophones and Orchestra, the Violin Concerto, the operas Zoulaïna and Le marin de Bolivar, and her masterwork, La cantate de Narcisse in collaboration with Paul Valéry.

At the outbreak of World War II, she was forced to leave the majority of her scores at her home in Grasse, with the exception of her recently completed Three Études for Piano and Orchestra.

After the war, in 1946, she returned to her home in France, where she composed orchestral and chamber music, plus numerous other works including the ballets Paris-Magie ( with Lise Delarme ) and Parisiana ( for the Royal Ballet of Copenhaugen ), the operas Il était un petit navire ( with Henri Jeanson ), Dolores, La petite sirène ( with Philip Soupault, based on Hans Christian Andersen's story " The Little Mermaid ") and Le maître ( to a libretto by Ionesco ), the musical comedy Parfums, the Concerto des vaines paroles, for baritone voice, piano and orchestra, the Concerto for Soprano and Orchestra, the Concertino for Flute, Piano and Orchestra, the Second Piano Concerto, the Concerto for Two Guitars and Orchestra, her Second Sonata for Violin and Piano, the Sonata for Harp, as well as an impressive number of film and television scores.

Over the course of her career Little has performed with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic and other major orchestras, and has released over 20 albums.

The late Margaret Hillis, founder and longtime director of the Chicago Symphony Chorus, won nine Grammy Awards for her collaborations with the Orchestra and Chorus.

She first came to prominence when Pierre Boulez programmed her Symposium for Orchestra with the Juilliard Symphony Orchestra in 1975.

Her Three Movements for Orchestra ( Symphony No. 1 ) was premiered by the American Symphony Orchestra in 1982, and it won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize, after which point her popularity and income from commissions ensured that she could devote herself to composing full-time.

Harriett remained in Englewood, New Jersey with her newborn and her older son David while Ozzie toured the nation with the Nelson Orchestra.