Sentence examples for imaginative performance from inspiring English sources

Thanks to an imaginative performance by Kimberly Gilbert as Billie Dawn, "Born Yesterday" at Ford's Theatre sounded unexpectedly resonant notes about abuse, and at Round House, Paula Vogel's 1998 Pulitzer winner "How I Learned to Drive" reasserted its power in dramatizing a sexual predator.

In the third Boulez 2000 concert, at the Felsenreitschule the next day, Mr. Aimard made Berg's harmonically wayward Sonata (Op. 1) seem positively Brahmsian, gave a gripping account of Schoenberg's breakthrough Five Piano Pieces (Op. 23) and, with the excellent flutist Sophie Cherrier, offered a continually imaginative performance of Mr. Boulez's early Flute Sonata.

It was a marvelously imaginative performance, outside the obvious.

In contrast, the international groups have among the most technically precise and artistically imaginative performances at the festival.

It takes excellent and imaginative performances to bring obscure composers to life, and the Akademie für Alte Musik supplies them.

In exchange, he has the chance to produce innovative and imaginative performances and keep a foot in New York City.

The entire role is pantomime, and it's one of the most moving, tender, imaginative performances I saw all year.

But the emerging players on this year's squad, more ethnically diverse than previous teams, gave expansive and imaginative performances in South Africa.

This heritage was vividly apparent at Avery Fisher Hall on Sunday afternoon, when Fabio Luisi, the Staatskapelle's principal conductor, led imaginative performances of two Richard Strauss tone poems.

Together, Abbado and the Orchestra Mozart made some of the most fresh and imaginative performances and recordings of classical and romantic repertoire of recent years.

Last year, for his debut recording on the Virgin Classics label, Mr. Fray adventurously coupled works by Bach and Pierre Boulez in lucid, sensitive and imaginative performances.