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In 2004 she led the Juilliard Orchestra in a scintillating account of Ives's visionary Symphony No. 4. In February she conducted a demanding program of contemporary works at Juilliard's Focus! festival.

Last April, the young pianist Gilles Vonsattel appeared in the intimate environs of Bargemusic in a demanding program of Beethoven, George Benjamin, Liszt, Messiaen, Heinz Holliger and Frederic Rzewski, exhausting for player and audience alike.

Before a packed house of supporters, FJC's 108 young musicians played a demanding program of colorful orchestral showpieces at a gala concert in Miami's New World Center, that showed where the future of classical music lies.

Last February, Ms. Cook gave another Carnegie Hall concert, titled "Mostly Sondheim," a demanding program of songs by the great composer and lyricist interspersed with songs by Arlen, Berlin and others that Mr. Sondheim wishes he had written.

It is a demanding program: for the first two weeks of treatment, at least one parent must be available around the clock to supervise meals and snacks, and monitor children between meals to make sure they do not burn off the calories with excessive exercise.

The Muslim men who journeyed to Afghanistan in order to join Al Qaeda went through a similar, demanding program of basic military training.

Ms. Lee made a lasting impression in 2008 when she gave a brilliant performance of a demanding program at Zankel Hall for which, in the second half, she wore an eco-friendly recital dress made from recycled grape juice pouches.

To begin with, the pianist constructed an excellent and demanding program of late Beethoven, late Schubert and late Brahms: repertory, as the advance publicity noted, "with which he is not usually associated". And he played it well enough to make one wonder why on earth not.

Three musicians from the Paris-based Ensemble InterContemporain assisted with the coaching for this intensely demanding program of works by Mr. Carter, Mr. Boulez, Stravinsky and Varèse.

On Wednesday and Friday evenings he will conduct demanding programs of Sibelius and Beethoven at Avery Fisher Hall.

This performance was just one component of a musically demanding program that included Mr. Figueroa as soloist in Prokofiev's seldom-heard Violin Concerto No. 1 in D, the score for Jerome Robbins's "Opus 19/The Dreamer".