By then, his clothes were from Jermyn Street and he performed only to the upper classes.
New York's leading pianist at midcentury was the New Orleans-born Louis Moreau Gottschalk, whose detractors complained that he performed only his own music, with its earthy banjo and Caribbean strains.
Mr. Fleisher has also taken up the baton, though more out of necessity than out of choice: in 1965, at 37, he was afflicted with focal dystonia in his right hand, and for many years he performed only left-hand repertory.
On opening night Mr. Borelli won an award for Best One-Man Showhichichehe performed only at the ceremony, not solo but with audience members using paper puppets on sticks: an imagined sixth season of "The Wire" revealing rampant corruption in the Baltimore zoo.
Doctors have been paid on a piecework basis since at least the Code of Hammurabi; in Babylon during the eighteenth century B.C., a surgeon got ten shekels for any lifesaving operation he performed (only two shekels if the patient was a slave).
On 24 February 1970, a month after releasing Madcap, Barrett appeared on John Peel's Top Gear radio show, where he performed only one song from the newly released album ("Terrapin"), three that would later be recorded for Barrett ("Gigolo Aunt", "Baby Lemonade" and "Effervescing Elephant") and a one-off ("Two of a Kind", possibly written by Richard Wright).
He just performs only on his terms: in small rooms, on short notice.
He didn't expect it to, but by the end of his second week he had become uncomfortably aware that he was performing only the simplest, least demanding tasks at the Home.
