You're never in doubt of his prowess, of his ardor as an executant, of his animal grace, of his marvelous naturalness.
As an executant of the young king's commands, Bute, though equipped with no grander a title than groom of the stole, was close to being prime minister.
After the uplift of interest in straightahead jazz during the 1990s, Henderson's audiences were a lot bigger than the handful who used to show up at Ronnie Scott's club 20 years before, when he was already a jaw-dropping executant of sharp curves and four-wheel skids as a melodic improvisor, but mostly playing straight jazz rather than the then commercially dominant idiom of jazz-funk.
Simon Rattle, Andrew Davis, John Eliot Gardiner and Mark Wigglesworth are just four of the maestros who passed through his hands, and Hurst's is a name that crops up with remarkable regularity as the teacher who set aspiring executants on their way.
Bourrées are the tiny traveling steps on point that since the 1890s have often been compared, with a great executant, to strings of pearls.
Otherwise this was an exemplary confluence of material and executants, reaching heavenly heights with spellbinding accounts of Mahler's "Urlicht" ("Primal Light") and "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen" ("I am lost to the world").
We want our young dancers equipped to perform the most challenging material, old and new, from all countries — but we also want an identifiable heritage of style that we can call American, British, Danish, French, Russian, each with a guardian body of teachers and executants.
The directors were left in charge of commerce and as political executants, but they were politically superintended by a new Board of Control, the president of which, in the person of Henry Dundas, soon became the virtual minister for India.
It was Obama who placed the power to shape and implement a national strategy to deal with the great financial crisis and its aftermath in the hands of its authors and executants.
