"For a start, it means the end of your performing career, but it affects everything: how do you experience music when you can't hear it any more?
At the other end of the performing spectrum was Yuliana Malkhasyants's deliciously over-the-top Gypsy Dancer.
During the last hour I spent with Barbette, he spoke about the end of his performing career.
The mid-30s – the peak baby years – are a crucial period, when dancers are reaching the end of their performing lives and are ready to start creating work.
Following the end of her performing career Baker has taken up a number of positions, most notably as a long-standing chancellor of the University of York and a patron of the Leeds piano competition.
By 1990, when he was close to the end of his performing career, Mr. Gebel-Williams was working with 21 elephants, 38 horses, 22 tigers, 4 zebras, 3 camels and a couple of llamas.
Knocking Mary Poppins Returns off the top of the UK box office rankings after its three-week reign is another slice of nostalgia: Stan & Ollie, which focuses on comedy duo Laurel and Hardy towards the end of their performing career.
Other rumors are equally false, like the one attributing the end of his performing career to a successful libel suit by von Braun, the German-born rocket scientist whose ideological flexibility he mocked so devilishly on "TWTYTW".
AND now that he is at the end of his performing career, one last purifying paradox has come into view: it is the women, not the men, who are carrying on his art.
Indeed, at the very end of her performing career, Beverly Sills added it to "The Merry Widow" and made it memorable--indelible, really--primarily through interpretive nuance.
