In both tendered and negotiated contracts, the ideals of performance improvement are promoted, yet it is often the case that this is poorly understood, and where it is taken as a precise measure of output it is limited to a few measurable criteria that often are defined by supply side measures (e.g., on-time running and accidents per 100,000 operating hours).
Procedural ideals of performance represent (and thus reconstruct) our understanding of quality.
The only similarly radical example of a musician who organized his life and his musical activity around an ideal of performance is, of course, Glenn Gould, who, in 1964, renounced the concert stage and decided solely to perform in the recording studio.
He also commended its density and "juicy physicality" suggesting "ideals of interactive performance absent from the regal self-possession that stiffens Beyoncé's supposedly more serious songs".
Key to CoolSpin technology is an optimization of motor speed to provide an ideal balance of performance, power utilization and acoustics.
The system (R) is an ideal model of performance, to which the designed closed-loop system tries to match [25].
The ideal coefficient of performance (COP) of this system is 0.5 and the exergetic yield is 1.
It allows identification of the energy performance targets (the ideal Coefficient of Performance, COPi) as a function of external temperature conditions and the internal distribution of energy flows within a thermochemical system.
Clapton took the ideal of authentic performance from the British jazz scene, but his pursuit of originality his homage to the blues originals and his search for his own guitar voice also reflected his art-school education (Clapton was one of many British rock stars who engaged in music seriously while in art school).
There is, however, still a lack of information regarding the broader spectrum of orchestral colors and how to use the sound ideals of historically informed, performance practice which are especially important in connection with Mozart.
But she is a hugely gifted musician with larger social ideals, and the kind of performance she gave on Monday night needed no compromises at all.
