The chorus was excellent; of the three fine soloists, Anastasia Kalagina, John Daszak and Mikhail Petrenko, the latter's deep bass lent a final dark authenticity to the whole.
Barker and Taylor address the final category — "cultural authenticity" — in their best chapter, an account of how misguided notions of authenticity first closed the door of success on a black Mississippi performer, John Hurt, and then shoehorned him into a role that was, in a word, fake.
This final barrier to authenticity may soon be conquered.
As a final index of authenticity and honesty, this reckoning of a critical misstep meets the sniff test.
When the transference is over and the Lord Mayor is on his way to the Grand Opening, she plans to shake it out over the reconstruction in a final flourish of authenticity, for the use of posterity.
"Better yet," Mr. Franztis said, "the project will serve as the final stamp of authenticity for the Greekness of Alexander," who was born in Pella, then in the ancient kingdom of Macedonia but now part of Greece.
To add a final touch of authenticity, they joke about giving it its own torture chamber.
From his mother, Marlene's husband has inherited the droit moral, the right to have the final say on the authenticity of all extant Leibovitz paintings.
Not long after "Canyon Suite" was discovered, Barbara Buhler Lynes, a professor of art history at the Maryland Institute College of Art, was commissioned by the National Gallery to begin work on a catalog of OKeeffe's works that would serve as the final arbiter of the authenticity of various works.
Of course there are limitations when interpreting the data of any ancient biological materials and these must be considered for a final decision on the authenticity of the remains.
