Every time I give a performance, I take seriously my role as not only an entertainer, but as the facilitator of an experience that has this potential.
"I gave a good performance," said the 21-year-old.
It was a truly unforgettable concert, though most of the details provided here are gleaned from interviews with old friends and Google searches, as I remember nothing about the show except that folks all the way out in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, could hear the guitars, and Wilson Pickett, who was probably not there, gave a performance I will never forget.
I didn't think, "How can I give a great performance?" It was all about doing what was there.
"Yes, I'm giving a performance -- this space is certainly cut out for that," Mr. Irons conceded, with an upward glance at the museum's famously serpentine ramp, which Robert Wilson, who designed the installation, had shrouded in muslin.
So, he really threw himself into it, and I think he gives a performance unlike anything he's ever done before, and I think he really pulls it off.
Even when I do actually give a performance," he concludes, "the next day, in the physical sense, it has gone.
... What I had heard is that he had given a performance and I thought at that time it would be sufficient to repeat what I said in Philadelphia.
"I'm delighted to be giving a performance that's not broadly comic but I was a little nervous at first about catching David's humanity," he adds.
I do the camera rehearsal, but I am not going to give a performance until the switch is on.
