But wherever he really is, his inversion of the laws of balladry, PR, live performance and social etiquette remain bracing.
At these performances, the austere etiquette of classical music went out the window.
THE restaurant Veselka, in the East Village, has featured Ukrainian borscht on its menu, individual banana cream pies on its daily specials board, and, in 2008, at the fourth table from the entrance, "Etiquette," a performance piece in which the ticket holders were also the actors.
Leverage that need to compete into academic performance by framing classroom etiquette as an achievement.
They talked about education and funding, and the presentation and etiquette of live performance.
Etiquette is a public performance, just as it was a century ago — but now "public" has become synonymous with "on the Internet".
When it is performed at an event, traditional etiquette is to either start or end the ceremonies with the anthem, including situations when other anthems are played, and for the audience to stand during the performance.
The pianist Martin Katz, who accompanied Ms. McNair that night in March, says he misses the old etiquette and can't remember his last performance without "applause between everything".
Given these vagaries of musical etiquette, it is small wonder that the performances, according to contemporary accounts, were full of sour notes.
He was pretty funny, but there was a sardonic narrowness to his performance, which was devoted to single-guy dating issues — hookup etiquette, sexting, and so on.
