In middle age, however, he was persuaded by his unhappily married mistress, the Polish-born princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein, to give up his performance career and to devote his attention to composition.
University administrators are often more likely to devote resources to performance centers and extracurricular classes in dance technique than to academic courses and scholars.
If Manning is headed to football retirement, as many suspect, the good news is, he will have a lot more time to devote to his commercial performances.
In tonight's final, Ms Hilal plans to focus on the media; Jaza al-Baqmi, one of her rivals, will devote her performance to the role of women in Arab culture.
He would rush home from Pfizer headquarters in Manhattan to attend an opera performance and then devote weekends to volunteer work, including service as chairman of the board of Clark University in Worcester, Mass., as well as raising three sons, collecting art and listening to opera records.
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.
Her Drowned World Tour, which started its sold-out five-night run on Wednesday night (through Tuesday) at Madison Square Garden, is a 105-minute pop spectacle as performance art, devoted to the idea that Madonna can do what she wants.
Her Drowned World tour, which started its sold-out five-night run last night (through July 31) at Madison Square Garden, is a 105-minute pop spectacle as performance art, devoted to the idea that Madonna can do what she wants.
But with Manhattan rapidly losing performance spaces devoted to experimental arts — like Tonic on the Lower East Side, which closed in 2007 — some kind of home is necessary, and Mr. Markowitz believes that Brooklyn is the perfect place for it.
