Ricky Jay is one of the world's eminent performers and scholars of magic.
Before Marceau, eminent performers, such as Étienne Decroux and Jean-Louis Barrault, had researched the art, and delivered suitably esoteric presentations.
The university said the honor was intended "to pay homage to one of the most eminent performers of our time, who notably has conducted the greatest masterpieces of French music, from Berlioz to Messiaen".
To understand what it's like to get by as a modern Italian porn star, I approached six eminent performers at the event.
At a time when polls show Vice President Al Gore trailing his Republican rival, Gov. George W. Bush, in several battleground states, an increasing number of Democrats contend that President Clinton should play a prominent role stumping for Mr. Gore this fall -- even if it reminds voters that he, and not his protege, remains the party's pre-eminent performer.
(Scott) Film Series A Day/Evening with Superstar Mario Montez (Sunday) One of the pre-eminent performers of the New York Underground, described by Charles Ludlam as "the guru of drag" and a regular in films by Andy Warhol and Jack Smith, makes two rare public appearances on Sunday.
Her sitters included local fringe luminaries like Penny Arcade, Brian Damage, Kembra Pfahler, Larry Shox, Alexina Shufeldt and the eminent playwright-poet-performer Edgar Oliver, who is Ms. Adelson's brother and for whom she has designed sets.
For more than 30 years he had been pre-eminent in Romania as performer, composer and teacher, a formidable and charismatic figure who more than deserved the title of "the Romanian Mr Jazz", although it is not clear whether that was awarded to him by the music journalist Leonard Feather or bestowed by Duke Ellington, no less, when meeting him on a visit to the Balkans.
Finally, in another enterprising project to lure consumers with comprehensive collections, Brilliant Classics has issued a 150-CD Haydn Edition: symphonies, concertos, Masses, songs, chamber works and more, compiled from recordings by some eminent artists (like the soprano Elly Ameling) and many lesser-known performers.
The eminent British conductor, and one of the world's foremost Bach experts and performers, was responsible for persuading Bill Scheide, a US philanthropist and fellow Bach aficionado who bought the portrait in 1951, to bequeath it to the city of Leipzig in his will.
