Sentence examples for performances himself from inspiring English sources

But most often his role has been in assisting the lead conductor in preparing the production; he has conducted relatively few performances himself.

Young British choreographer Michael Clark noticed Bowery's new look and hired him to design the costumes for his dances; and soon Bowery was appearing in the performances himself.

Kirchner, a pianist and composer friendly with Brahms, Schumann and Mendelssohn, reworked the sextets as piano trios, with Brahms's blessing, so that he could take part in performances himself.

Kirschner was struck by how many lives Graham -- who played no instruments, wrote no songs and gave no performances himself -- had touched.

In his earlier short "Family Nightmare," he delivers such a performance himself, in voice-over alone.

Yet Matar's performance (himself no trained actor) combined with Wallace's text, expanded on contact with the audience into something with epic reach.

In January 1787 Mozart and an entourage including his family traveled to Prague by invitation to attend the opera and spend time with local music lovers and patrons; he conducted at least one performance himself.

The mayor, Igor Pushkarev, introduced Mumiy Troll's performance himself, and on Monday, he pronounced V-Rox a hit, saying that 30,000 people attended its events, although that number wasn't independently verifiable.

Schumann remarked that Mendelssohn's piano accompaniment of the D minor Chaconne sounded so fresh and convincing that "the old, immortal cantor seemed to have a hand in the performance himself".

He spent the next couple of months going to live comedy gigs and studying comedians like Bill Hicks on YouTube before signing up to do a live stand-up performance himself at a local comedy club.

Sargent completed the work too late for Wood to have enough time to learn it, and so Wood called on Sargent to conduct the first performance himself.