First, a more efficient array of test conditions was developed that significantly decreased the number of test cases required in order to draw performance conclusions.
Previous years have drawn performances and talks from such legendary names as Jimi Hendrix, Laurence Olivier and Dizzy Gillespie – but visitors in 2010 will not be disappointed.
As a conductor, his gentle, understated manner, coupled with musical discipline and scholarly integrity, drew performances from singers of which few had imagined they were capable.
But it drew performances from its 11 Barnard dancers, augmented by a Sokolow dancer (Benjamin Cortez), that rose to the challenge of her spare, thrusting movement style, so terse and yet so filled with unspoken themes.
In one of the film's many beautiful sequences matching quietly drawn performances with achingly screen-swelling backgrounds, a young girl Selin (Marceline Rofit) walks with her grandfather, the village shaman (Albi Nangia) through a pink-purple mist.
But her sensitively drawn performance also reveals the emotional yearning at the character's core.
There's often a confusing, disjunctive quality to it, especially where contemporary art is concerned, as the museum's programming lurches from crowd-drawing, performance-art spectacles in the atrium to relatively dry and didactic exhibitions in its galleries.
By October 2013 it had become the city's go-to culture district, drawing performance artists and electronic musicians from Germany, France and Japan, readings by Vietnamese-diaspora andhors, and most recently a group show on Vietnamese gay art and culture.
"Maybe all one can do is to hope to end up with the right regrets," Lyman's lawyer, Tom, in a finely drawn performance by Bill Joachim, adds to the mix.
