There were a few moments of truth during Mountain Man's austere, engrossing performance at the Mercury Lounge on Thursday night.
Mr. Stillman's austere, dignified performance is enlivened by appealing touches of dry humor, while Ms. Ripley's Mary is depicted as both a nervous shopaholic and a troubled but humane woman who visits wounded soldiers incognito.
Rigorous conceptualism, austere minimalism, aggressive performance pieces — art was hard work in the '70s, and it wasn't supposed to be fun to look at.
Standing before a packed house at the austere midtown Manhattan performance venue, Town Hall, Jones delivered an hour-long speech, complete with charts, diagrams, videos and graphics.
The protocol experts accompanying Gore offered elaborate and nearly plausible explanations, but the overall effect of his performance was austere to the point of sterility.
Both performances combined austere attentiveness to Bach's contrapuntal writing with a plush, almost Romantic expressivity that invited listeners in.
This is a menacing, bleak, suspenseful drama shot with an almost monochrome, austere beauty, with impressive performances from both Mr. Mortensen and Smit-McPhee, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Ms. Theron.
The effect is one of austere sophistication; Mr. Gerstein's performance here was even wider in sound and scope than in his excellent recording (on Myrios Classics).
There's a rare performance of the austere melodrama Perséphone, alongside the ballets Orpheus and Apollon Musagète (Sun); then a semi-staging of opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex, followed by the Symphony Of Psalms (Thu).
