Yet Herrmann was never a proficient performer.
In the case of music, Philodemus argues that one ought not to practice assiduously to become a proficient performer, distracting oneself from the needful pursuit of philosophy, when the innocent enjoyment which is all the benefit that can be got from music is available to anyone who just listens to the performances available to the public (Mus. 4, col. 151.8 239 Delattre = PHerc. 1497.37).
Of the current contenders, Argentina's Gabriel Heinze has been a highly proficient performer in his early days at Manchester United and Gianluca Zambrotta is a star at Juventus, but aficionados of defending would struggle to find anyone to rival Cole for his surging, overlapping runs, his blistering pace and, as Ronaldo can testify, his handling of the game's most penetrative right-wingers.
The proficient performer can see the goal and the important features of the situation but must still decide what action to take.
He was the first to acknowledge the decision-making assistance he received from highly proficient performers playing inside or outside him, particularly in his formative years, yet I witnessed a surge in his confidence and capacity to manage a game himself in the early part of the last decade.
Our lives were shut up in what we were doing". A proficient and highly adaptable performer, she ranged over a wide repertory, tackling a huge range of roles with success.
(To see just how proficient a performer she is, you can also watch her tonight on Part 2 of NBC's "Lost Empire," in a graceful rendition of an ethereal goddess, the truest note in that big, unwieldy production.) "The Chris Isaak Show" has an appealing offbeat tone, which is set by its star, who always seems mildly baffled by the weirdness of his life, show business and otherwise.
Prutsman, in contrast, is a proficient jazzman, but went all the way as a classical performer, concertizing extensively and winning an Avery Fisher Career Grant in the process — and, in his Barber recording, it shows.
Prutsman, in contrast, is a proficient jazzman, but went all the way as a classical performer, concertizing extensively and winning an Avery Fisher Career Grant in the process and, in his Barber recording, it shows.
He is a proficient juggler.
