Sentence examples for performance caught from inspiring English sources

His performance caught the attention of the producer George Schlatter, who cast him in Edie Adams's Las Vegas act and then "Laugh-In," which he was also producing.

Along the way, Tanaka's performance caught up to his popularity, and last year, he earned the Sawamura Award, Japan's equivalent of the Cy Young Award.

Mr. Gergiev's performance caught those qualities, especially the campy veneer, which is somehow crucial to preventing the music from slipping into sentimentality and keeping its strangeness on the surface.

It was only when he reached the third movement, which Beethoven called a minuet but which is actually a scherzo (he only introduced that title into his symphonic scheme with the Second), that the performance caught fire, the strings began to dig a bit deeper and the wind acquired extra pungency.

Easily the best live version of arguably the pinnacle of the Beatle arc, the performance caught the audience by surprise and then repeatedly topped that with waves of power, cacophony, strange beauty, and a fearless reveling in the opportunity of the near future.

That following summer in 2011, with a newly anglicized name, Baker was playing at the iconic Montreaux Jazz Festival and gearing up for the release of his debut album when his entirely acoustic performance caught the attention of an incognita Shania Twain.

Scott's performance catches perfectly Paul's weird contradictions.

Mr. Cerveris's performance catches the extraordinary blend of charming good manners and absolute artistic purposefulness that so characterized Balanchine.

Even if Hamlet and Macbeth are greater plays, Jackson's performance catches perfectly the zigzag patterns of Lear's mix of insight and insanity.

But Frank Langella's great performance catches the quality of the memory - the cunning and the manipulative power, the flashes of real originality, the fatal obsession with enemies and his own assumed inadequacy.

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