The first of two programs is straightforward: performances of the Symphonies No. 3 (his most romantic and subjective) and No. 4 (the essence of tragedy, and a summit of pure technique).
This award-winning quartet from Prague, one of three Czech quartets featured at the Y this spring, will also give more straightforward performances, of Beethoven's Op. 18, No. 6, and Alexander Zemlinsky's Quartet No. 1. Tomorrow night at 8, 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue, (212) 415-5500.
The work is described as a dialogue between Maqoma and his contributors and promises to be far more than a straightforward verbatim performance of the joint efforts, as he reinterprets their material in his own distinctively offbeat style.
As the show's token child, through whose eyes we are meant to see the world, Mr. Hall gives a terrific, straightforward performance that conveys a matter-of-fact acceptance of the fantastical.
Under Mr. Macal they exuded awareness to the tips of their fingers, showing the best meaning of Tchaikovsky to reside, ultimately, in a great, straightforward performance.
Sirens is a more straightforward performance but it opens in typically bold style.
In the end, though, to invest in a Dyson you have to place a heavy premium on design and fetching good looks, because ultimately it's tough to justify that steep increase in price based on a straightforward comparison of performance alone.
Rise was fun, to be sure, with a self-assured and straightforward performance by James Franco.
In fact, the staging, with its exits and entrances on different levels and a few props – a silver platter, but no severed head – added very little, and a straightforward concert performance with the singers in front of the orchestra might have worked better in the Lighthouse.
But the acoustic guitar and the straightforward performance was good, probably the best performance of the night, though not one to save.
