Sentence examples for classical performance from inspiring English sources

ITZKOFF: my wife, who has a master's degree in classical performance – and perfect pitch – is pretty sure that Adele performed that in a different key than she recorded it.

"There's not that distance you can sometimes get in a classical performance.

Playwright David Hare declared Scofield's King Lear "the greatest classical performance of my lifetime".

No matter that compared with classical performance, jazz is like the shifting sands.

But that very facility has at times worked against him when writing music for classical performance.

But Mr. Hallberg's was the one ideally classical performance of the whole day.

Reverb 2012 will host a series of contemporary classical performances from Friday through March 4 at Roundhouse (Chalk Farm Road; NW1 8EH; 44-844-482-8008; Chalk Farm tube stop), a performing arts center in London originally used as a steam engine repair shed.

Full reviews of recent classical performances: nytimes.com/classical.

Occasionally there are classical performances in the area.

2. Justin Davidson's Top 10 Classical Performances (New York magazine).

That arresting statistic indicates the degree to which classical performances have been standardized over the past century.