At the end of the song, Madonna marched ahead with a band of violin players to the front of the stage and then sat aside with her dancers for a solo performance from Kolpakov Trio, who performed the traditional song "Doli Doli".
Among the more straightforward are a performance with Mr. Pears of Dowland's "Fine Knacks for Ladies," a solo performance of a Bach fugue and an informal but fire-breathing duet with the guitarist John Williams.
First, he played "Coração Vagabundo," a bossa-nova song he wrote and recorded first with Gal Costa, in 1967, and then, in a version similar to Monday's, as a sublime solo performance for a self-titled 1986 album, his first American release.
The model is his wife, Chrissy Teigen, but the rest are here to document and/or handle a recent uptick of interest around the otherwise low-key singer, who opened the Super Bowl on Sunday with "America the Beautiful". "All of Me," a love song turned pop hit that he wrote for Teigen, is nominated for a solo performance Grammy.
Occasionally, six would break for a wardrobe change while a single dancer took center stage for a solo performance.
Now 63 and the artistic director of New York Live Arts, he returns to the stage for a solo performance this season.
So it's something of a departure for this 45-year-old choreographer to put himself onstage, in gym clothes, with little more than a desk and a laptop for a solo performance.
Mr. Zhang's art first became "Chinese" in a way that Westerners might understand the term when he visited the United States in 1998 for a solo performance at P.S. 1. as part of "Inside Out".
Fat Freddy's Drop, New Zealand's soi-disant "seven-headed soul monster", were billboarded for a solo performance in the concert hall as part of the venue's summer program.
Kaine braved the pulpit at one point for a solo performance during the communion hymn.
