The occasion was a performance by the Compañía Española de Antonio Márquez, a Spanish flamenco troupe that knows how to put on a good show.
The occasion was a performance more than two decades ago with New York's All-City High School Chorus, a group I joined solely for the opportunity to appear on a real stage.
"We need to make sure that it's not just an occasion but a performance and a win for us as well".
According to contemporary newspaper reports, he complained on only one occasion, during a performance at the Newport Lyceum on 18 April 1905: "They had omitted to provide air holes, and as Houdini, who has his share of humour, quietly remarked that he needed air sometimes, there was little delay while the holes were made". His programme would also include a company of popular vaudeville acts.
The Philharmonia Orchestra marks the occasion with a performance of The Shadows of Time, alongside Mahler's Symphony No. 1. Mahler's First Symphony isn't just the opening chapter of the composer's spiritual autobiography, it's also an awakening in itself.
Natural hair is always best, though marcelled waves really kick up your 20's look a notch for a more formal occasion or a performance.
One of the first such occasions was a performance she saw in Orchestra Hall in Chicago, where she was born.
It was not, on this occasion, an immaculate performance and Hewitt, currently the world No2, must have chastised himself for losing an opening set when the great man managed to get only 10 of his 27 first serves within the appropriate lines.
He just meant that he trusted his players to handle the occasion and deliver a performance.
There, on one occasion he saw a performance of Giuseppe Verdi's Il Trovatore by Italian tenor, Pietro Baccei, and at that moment knew what he wanted to do as an adult.
