His performance a short time ago today in the Commons was commanding.
It is a tribute, an interactive performance, a short, non-linear ceremony that both celebrates and challenges the mysterious power of nature, while questioning and perhaps critiquing humanity's habits and their effects upon the earth.
They say there's no such thing as a small role, but then what do you call a performance in a short film?
A play he'd written — a comedy about a family on a camping trip — had impressed his teachers enough that they organized a performance, and a short story that he composed in high school won an interscholastic award.
The new U01 sensitized solar cell exhibited a photovoltaic performance: a short-circuit photocurrent density (Jsc) of 10.70 mA cm−2, an open-circuit photovoltage (Voc) of 0.758 V and a fill factor (FF) of 0.74, corresponding to an overall conversion efficiency of 6.01% under standard global AM 1.5 solar light condition.
Seldom does a critic see a performance so short that he has the option of writing a minute-by-minute review.
A side excursion or a nice evening out can turn what may feel like a command performance into a short vacation.
There was also a fetching performance of a short work, "East," from "The Compass Pieces" by the Argentine-born Mauricio Kagel, a mischievous evocation of the East alive with two-step dance rhythms, slinky tunes and tart harmonies.
The excellent violinist, Courtney Orlando, gave an intense and rich-toned performance of a short, searching solo work, "Secret Psalm," written in 1990 as a memorial piece for Michael Vyner, who was the artistic director of the London Sinfonietta.
