"The Cabrera situation has heightened interest and concerns about agent involvement in performance-enhancing drugs," said a person in baseball who is aware of concerns now consuming the commissioner's office.
It's curious as to why Clemens, a player who has been thus far kept out of the Hall-of-Fame for his alleged involvement in performance-enhancing drugs, would be going out of his way to say anything positive about a player who is, or well on his way to becoming, a baseball pariah.
But beyond the specifics of any one effort, Mr. Bynum points to the general involvement in interdisciplinary performance as crucial.
Current studies on family involvement in the performance of enterprises have two obvious deficiencies.
James herself notes that trans women have a history of "working alongside drag performers," and that there "was no separation of drag and trans" in "pre-Stonewall Manhattan LGBT social life," but then claims that "drag queen" is a "transphobic slur" when referring to Addams' involvement in drag performance.
"There is absolutely no truth to the allegation that either of us had any involvement in procuring performance-enhancing drugs for Melky Cabrera or any other baseball player," they said in the statement issued by their lawyer, Howard M. Shapiro, a criminal defense lawyer in Washington.
One federal agent said in an affidavit that he had pulled scores of items out BALCO's trash that showed the depths of BALCO's involvement in putting performance-enhancing drugs into the hands of athletes.
Even the notion that certain works of performance art can or should be restaged after a piece's original incarnation, central to Mr. Sehgal's notion of selling rights and to shows like the Abramovic retrospective -- and more generally to the increasing involvement of museums in performance art -- is not without controversy.
The starting point is to define clearly the building blocks of musical learning, which are, to my mind: singing; reading music; access to instrumental tuition (both formal and informal); digital technology; attending live performance; creative involvement in composition; improvisation and performance of their own work.
