So here are 10 composers and performers who have all kept working through their 80th year (a fine but necessary distinction – you know who I am, Joe Green…) and beyond, producing masterpieces and masterly performances that inspired and continued to inspire audiences of any age.
But even masterly pitching performances were left wanting.
But setting mostly student performers beside a masterly jazz musician ultimately did the classical part of the program a disservice.
The red foreground curtain is masterly, as is the crouching performer's ballooning, frilly pink, red and white dress.
As in her singing, she achieved profound ends through the simplest of means, showing the instincts and communicative power of a born performer during a masterly recital on Thursday at Alice Tully Hall, accompanied by the excellent pianist Malcolm Martineau.
The performance was masterly.
But, unlike the Pythons, who went from university into theatre and television, he is a college dropout who got his comedy experience as a street performer, and became a masterly purveyor of what in the trade is called "comedy bollocks" — or, as he explains his particular brand, "take highbrow stuff, well researched, then talk shit about it".
But more likely it was the Flyers' masterly team effort, fueled by the return of two key performers, that sent the Canadiens to their third shutout loss in one playoff series for the first time in their century-long history.
Next was "Untitled Feminist Show" (2012), another original, masterly work, in which Lee did away with language altogether: a group of nude performers struck attitudes and made pantomimes about how people view gender and their bodies and myth in the world.
In Ms. Hong's masterly and poignant new "Woman Laughing," this 60-year-old Korean choreographer and performer travels through her own life.
