The other variables include the dancer who is to perform the movement and the length of time he is to take in its performance.

If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.

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 ; ;

Such performance is a great tribute to American scientists and engineers, who in the past five years have had to telescope time and technology to develop these long-range ballistic missiles, where America had none before.

there is a limit to how much the public will pay for shoddy performance.

The critical task for every president and his academic administrative staff is to assure that the college or university continually rebuilds and regenerates itself so that its performance will match changing social demands.

One way that this can be done, other than by hiring new high-priced professors, is by constantly encouraging the department members to raise their standards of performance.

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

The easiest way to describe this release is to say that it reproduces an interesting and effective Steinberg performance with minimal alteration of its musical values.

The effect of the recording is very open and natural, with the frequency emphasis exactly what you would expect from a live performance.

Without losing the distinctive undertow of Brahmsian rhythm, the pacing is firm and the over-all performance has a tightly knit quality that makes for maximum cumulative effect.

In the end, however, the thing about this performance that is most striking is the way it sings.

If you walk into the ring because it is fun to show your dog, he will feel it and give you a good performance!!

It is this subject matter that has brought Mason a large and enthusiastic following among sportsmen, but it is his exceptional performance with this motif that commends him to artists and discerning collectors.

`` A serious problem accompanying the technical-ladder approach is the difficulty of clearly defining responsibilities and standards of performance for each level.

With no set standards, there is the tendency to promote to the next highest level when the top of a salary band is reached regardless of performance.

Leaving the theatre after the performance, I had a flash of intuition that life, after all ( as Rilke said ), is just a search for the nonexistent cup of hot coffee, and that this unpretentious, moving, clever, bitter slice of life was the greatest thing to happen to the American theatre since Brooks Atkinson retired.

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 most striking aspect of the interaction demonstrated is the marked decrement in performance suffered by the highly anxious children in unstructured schools.

Failure confirms the threat, and the intensity of anxiety is increased as the required learning becomes more difficult, so that by the time the child reaches the third grade the decrement in performance is pronounced.

All of this would be wasted, of course, if the performance lacked authority and musical distinction.

Amateur dramatics is the performance of plays or musical theater, often to high standards, but lacking the budgets of professional West End or Broadway performances.

Even as his works dropped from performance, and he wrote no new operas after 1804, he still remained one of the most important and sought after teachers of his generation and his influence was felt in every aspect of Vienna's musical life.

** Marching band, a group of performers that consist of instrumental musicians who generally perform outdoors and incorporate some type of marching ( and possibly other movements ) with their musical performance

After he evacuated from the island, he arranged the original music into a form suitable for musical performance.

However, it is increasingly common to separate user interface and sound-generating functions into a music controller ( input device ) and a music synthesizer, respectively, with the two devices communicating through a musical performance description language such as MIDI or Open Sound Control.

A musician's choice of form factor is generally determined by the instrument he or she plays, the musical situation ( recording or live performance ) and what he or she can afford.

Returning to Busseto, he became the town music master and, with the support of Antonio Barezzi, a local merchant and music lover who had long supported Verdi's musical ambitions in Milan, Verdi gave his first public performance at Barezzi ’ s home in 1830.

Some contemporary players of these modern electric harps, especially solid body and minimalist design instruments, have been able to add the advantage of movement on stage into their musical performance.

In 1938, Warner Bros. put Bogart in a " hillbilly musical " called Swing Your Lady as a wrestling promoter ; he later apparently considered this his worst film performance.

In contrast to Carnatic music, the other main Indian classical music tradition originating from the South, Hindustani music was not only influenced by ancient Hindu musical traditions, historical Vedic philosophy and native Indian sounds but also enriched by the Persian performance practices of the Mughals.

The performance, a musical benefit at London's Royal Albert Hall in aid of the deaf, was attended by Prince Andrew's then wife, the Duchess of York.

The successful Harmonium premiere was the first performance of his music by a major mainstream organization, and established Adams as a figure in America's musical landscape.

The highlight of the events is usually the live performance, featuring some of the best musical acts of the region on the last day of each of the editions.

When published in the June 1950 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, cover artist Miller contributed one of the more striking Astounding covers of the 1950s, blending an emotional musical performance with cyber technology.

Park Place Gallery was a center for musical performances by electronic composers Steve Reich, Philip Glass and other notable performance artists including Joan Jonas.

It is a set of standard commands that allows electronic musical instruments, performance controllers, computers and related devices to communicate, as well as a hardware standard that guarantees compatibility between them.

A musical act with as few as one or two members, each operating multiple MIDI-enabled devices, can deliver a performance which sounds similar to that of a much larger group of musicians.

Notes are the " atoms " of much Western music: discretizations of musical phenomena that facilitate performance, comprehension, and analysis.

The performance is typically given in an opera house, accompanied by an orchestra or smaller musical ensemble.

* 2002 – Moscow Theatre Siege: Approximately 50 Chechen terrorists and 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the terrorists during a musical performance three days before.

* 1986 – The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.

This tendency to start festival orchestras or dedicated groups would also be pursued in the creation of summer musical festivals, and orchestras for the performance of smaller works.

A cast party is a celebration following the final performance of a theatric event, such as a play, a musical, or an opera.