The harsh quality that Europeans often find in Chinese performances is undoubtedly not a necessary adjunct, as the same criticism may be made upon many of our own street singers or brass bands.
The first performances of her large works have often been events of importance.
There are a number of English women who have done excellent work in the large orchestral forms, if we may count festival performances as a measure of success.
Teresa Guidi is the author of numerous operas of our own day, while the Countess Ida Correr, of Padua, has witnessed frequent performances of her "Gondoliera.
One of her usual performanceshas been to get into some home or institution and then keep others awake all night with her signs of distress.
Perhaps the best statement of her performances is that she demonstrated great irregularities from time to time, and even at the same examination in her work on different tests.
Another of his performances was to pretend that a dog was under the lounge, which refused to come out, and finally bit him when he tried to drag it out by the leg.
There are, however, charades to be got up on the spur of the moment, which are not less entertaining than the more elaborate performances to which we allude.
It will here be well to mark the difference between the blindfold performances of these two gentlemen.
Here was "a coil;" this young champion of the West, not satisfied with vanquishing all the chess veterans of England over the board, prepares to cast for ever into the shade the most astonishing performances of this and past ages.
A young gentleman has lately appeared somewhere in Germany, who, we are informed, has reproduced Morphy's performances at Birmingham and Paris.
When we had a Japanese dinner at the Club the charming little waitresses gave dramatic performancesin intervals between the courses.
The Sultan had given the old Church of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem to the Emperor Frederick for the Germans, and the performances of his son are only too familiar, but in our day the fear was of Russian machinations.
All the worst passions and performances of depraved men turned loose and ran riot for a century and a half.
Promises are easy, but performances are delayed until the would-be enterprising citizen gives up in despair.
They give excellent account of themselves in primary schools, and in performances at public entertainments they are letter-perfect.
Forster, devoted to the school of Macready, and all but trained by that actor, whose bust was placed in his hall, thought but poorly of the performances of our time.
They were too late, however, for the performances were just coming to an end when they arrived, so they started for a stroll through the beautiful park, which was not often open to the public.
During the same month Herr Pollini arranged with Augustus Harris for a series of performancesat Drury Lane, by the entire troupe of the Hamburg Opera House, and with the very popular Viennese chef d'orchestre, Hans Richter, as conductor.
The earliest operatic performances in America were derived not from Italian but from English sources.
No less gifted as an actor than as a singer, his greatest performances were given in such contrasting characters as Almaviva, Don Giovanni, and Otello.
At Epiphany, in many parts of Tyrol, performances very similar in character to the English old-time "mummers" are given.
The Brixlegg performances should most certainly be seen by all who are interested in the true peasant drama and the evolution of dramatic art.
In Performances of this Kind there must be Spirit and Strength, but especially there must be Justice.
Sir William Temple, speaking of the Dramatic Performances of the Stage, expresses himself after the following Manner.
At least four times a week he practiced with the hammer, Professor Beck viewing hisperformances with scarce concealed displeasure.
The first stepping-in of theatrical performances was to the lively-tunes of jigs and corams on a stage.
The first of theperformances was on Saturday evening, January 11, and the queen paid a short visit to the company present; on the following Monday there was a Cour.
At the same time, he warned all those who wished to visit the theatre to behave themselves in the way which the presence of the royal family dictated, and not to disturb the performances by loud talking or noise.
At a very early date a regulation made to curtail such performances at St Paul's declared that "what had been invented for the praise of sucklings had been converted into a disgrace"[986].
He was not a little astonished to hear that they were the performances of a poor child, who had, for more than two years, been supported by the bounty of one of his kitchen boys.
The offer was therefore refused, and Mr. Colburn proceeded to the southern cities, exhibiting his son in public, his performances everywhere exciting the utmost wonder.
His faculty for calculation seemed to increase, and as he became acquainted with arithmetical terms, his performances were still more remarkable.
His fame for strength spread over the country, and his performances excited universal wonder.
I try to hold myself to 60 performances a year -- not including recordings or dress rehearsals or private studies.
Long praised for her dramatic talents as well as her vocal skills, Miss Dunn has already signed contracts for performances into 1984.
A big, brawny 6-footer whose deep, gravelly voice and slothful mannerisms somehow bring to mind a friendly trained bear, Keith normally spends the time between his matinee and evening performances sleeping on an Army cot in his dressing room.
It's such a shock to do twoperformances on Saturday and Sunday, and none on Monday.
But attending any of his performances is hardly less forgettable.
In 1974, after years of perfecting his craft in theatres across America, he picked up the first of his two Tony Awards for his performances in Find Your Way Home.
I've had two three-week vacations and I've missed four performances in almost three years," says Reid in his dressing room on a recent afternoon.
It was a hit in London, and the preview performanceswere doing well enough in New York to call for an official Broadway opening.
Anna herself attends up to nine performances a week during the busy season.
Mr. Cooper's performances during this visit received less reward and yet deserved more than those on his former.
Mr. Dwyer's performances here have answered the expectations we had built upon the various criticisms we had read, and the verbal communications we had received upon the subject of his professional talents.
It is pleasant to think that there are actors and actresses who practically, for sheer love of their art, will give their time and ability for two isolated performances of a long and difficult work like The Duchess of Malfi.
They endeavoured by work, by lectures, by concerts, by games, by theatrical performances to recall continuously to themselves that normal life still prescribed in spite of their untoward fate.
It has made its own high standards; but it follows that its performances must be judged in general by the standards of its highest individual achievements.
Inferior performances on the stage will destroy your taste as surely as will the continued propinquity of poor pictures.
They are not puny deeds to her; they are quite the most considerableperformances given in all the universe of men.
Keep in mind the future--the tasks, opportunities, and rewards of which for the American people will make our large performances of to-day seem like mere suggestions.
I have a man in mind whose performances in business have been as solid as they are astonishing.
The proceedings in the convocation turned chiefly upon two performances of Dr.
Often a standard play revived by one of these hastily gathered companies of noted players resolves itself into an interest in individual performances which must lack that organic unity which comes of longer association.
If this central scene be not of emotional value, it is safe to say that the play is doomed; or will at the most have a languishing life in special performances and be cherished by the elite.
Even the performances on the shallow stage above him held for him keen interest; and, without other tuition, he gained here a knowledge of dramatic construction that served him well later, during the creation of his few operas.
During the war a number of dramatic and musical performanceswere given at the Athenaeum for the boys in blue.
Phil Roher and Otto Dreher gave dramaticperformances both in German and English for some time after the close of the war.
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