A magnificent account of the slow movement led into an entrancing performance of the scherzo, although there was such suspense in the opening section for pizzicato strings that the music seemed too elusive to be merely playful.
The main event came at the end, with an entrancing performance, at once sensual and kinetic, of Lukas Foss's "Time Cycle," an influential 1960 work for soprano and orchestra, featuring the excellent and adventurous soprano Jennifer Zetlan, with George Manahan conducting.
It's no wonder than that her entrancing performance style prompted Jasmin Tarasin to include Peaches in Live, a video study on the art of performing this past January.
Without its ingenious narrative framework and two entrancing performances — by Bob Martin as a lonely, musical-loving schlemiel with a hyperactive fantasy life and Sutton Foster as the showgirl heroine of his dreams — "The Drowsy Chaperone" would feel at best like a festive entree at a high-end suburban dinner theater.
Nissan says it will sell Maximas although they project they will sell fewer of them in 2002 to a more upmarket buyer, one more interested in refinement and less entranced by performance.
Julia Headley was stunning from her first entrance, although her performance didn't entirely live up to her presence.
"My conscience is troubling me," she says, making a breezy entrance at a performance of her son's play and forcing its abrupt end.
THE restaurant Veselka, in the East Village, has featured Ukrainian borscht on its menu, individual banana cream pies on its daily specials board, and, in 2008, at the fourth table from the entrance, "Etiquette," a performance piece in which the ticket holders were also the actors.
Making an entrance is a performance; it is here that you capture an audience's attention.
Entranced by the performance of Mario Lanza in The Great Caruso, the young Alagna moved to Paris seeking work and landed a job singing in a pizzeria cabaret.
The American Glass specialist Karen Kamensek conducted a tireless cast, chorus and orchestra (without violins, their high lines evoked by a synthesiser) in a performance entrancing in all respects.
