Facing one another and playing from memory, the performers used mallets and fingertips to beat out rhythmic patterns on six wooden beams of graduated length, laid flat across stands.
For decades, jazz musicians have joked about Schaap's adhesive memory, but countless performers have known the feeling that Schaap remembered more about their musical pasts than they did and was always willing to let them in on the forgotten secrets.
Acting out Ms. Kron's memories, the other performers have the bright comic flatness of people compressed into amusing anecdotes.
9 30 P.M. (ABC) CMA COUNTRY CHRISTMAS Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland hosts this collection of music and memories from country performers and their families.
9 P.M. (ABC) CMA COUNTRY CHRISTMAS Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland hosts this collection of music and memories from country performers and their families, taped on Nov. 10 at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville.
A Japanese troupe makes its New York debut with "Soup," in which a man eating soup in a restaurant is overcome by a gush of memories causing the performers to tumble about the stage and skip up the walls.
"We Killed" started out as a magazine article for Marie Claire magazine, and Ms. Kohen has not found an effective book-length structure on which to hang her collection of rambling, long-winded memories from comic performers, club owners, television executives, talent scouts and writers.
A performance by parents who are professional performers in memory of William E. McGinn, a neighbor and firefighter who was killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
But it's Beatrice and Benedick who remain in our memory thanks to two performers who charm right to the very end.
Kevin Moore, Ames's husband and producer of the porn production company, Evil Angel, also used his speech at the Adult Video News (AVN) awards to announce The August Project, an initiative serving as a support system for adult performers, in memory of his wife.
