Love Songs was starry and watery: Anohni, Jim White, Laurie Anderson, John Cameron Mitchell, Lucinda Williams, and other geniuses performing gently complex wonders from the Reed songbook to an audience of umbrellas and devotees.
They don't like it up 'em, sir. What they didn't realise is that Lowe was a genius at performing pompous English self-delusion (you only have to listen to his audiotape narration of Charles Pooter in The Diary of a Nobody to get that).
Not Trumper at his brilliant best, nor even Bradman in his calculated genius, ever performed with more unadulterated, murderous power and masterful technique.
There is so much testimony to her performing genius, her irresistible stage charisma, that they can hardly be doubted.
No, my dog is not a performing genius, she just sometimes sees how far away my lickable face is, and demands to be carried.
An isolated, socially awkward, morphine-addicted computer genius toils unnoticed, performing security checks in the bowels of faceless multinational corporation Evilcorp.
She had had the phone for only a few months, so its passing came as a shock to both Sophie and the Geniuses who performed the autopsy.
Murphy is one of the performing geniuses of the era and doesn't need an excuse.
Other fast-selling artists on the programme will certainly be a comparable elder-statesman sax genius, Wayne Shorter (17 November), performing with his awesome quartet, and also with the BBC Concert Orchestra in new arrangements of his compositions.
KELLER QUARTET The superb Hungarian ensemble, renowned for its interpretation of the music of its native genius György Kurtág, performs two of his works, along with string quartets by Mozart (the Adagio and Fugue, K. 546) and Schubert (the grand Quartet No. 15 in G Major).(Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall. 212-247-7800. Oct. 31 at 7 30).
