As a plump 13-year-old Mr. Cliburn won a statewide competition to perform with the Houston Symphony and he played the Tchaikovsky concerto.
Over the weekend, Ms. Crossan, 18, and two other Randolph High cheerleaders, Michelle D'Aconti and Mandy Mason, left their home in a jubilant mood, friends said, for a week of festivities on Maui with hundreds of other cheerleaders from around the country who had won national competitions last June to perform at halftime of the Hula Bowl on Saturday.
Winning a competition aged 11 to perform Mozart's Piano Concerto No 5 in D Major with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Does the exposure, the pressure, the competition and need to perform, the public profile, make it harder?
Muirhead's young world champions, who have played well in fits and starts but now must all fire together at the business end of the competition, will have to perform better than they did against the Danes.
Typically, the honor falls to select world-class guest soloists and to winners of the Paganini Competition who are allowed to perform only from a classical repertory that has been approved in advance.
In 1995, he won a stand-up competition and went on to perform at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where two of his solo shows were nominated for the Perrier Award, in 2004 and 2005.
And big French firms, many one-time branches of the civil service, have been opened up to market competition, bringing new pressures to perform in the office or factory floor.
And a competition where I have to perform well.
As global competition increases, organizations need to perform smarter, faster, and more efficiently.
