Several studies have shown that nocturnal sleep duration decreases during Ramadan, as fast performers tend to delay their bedtime and to wake up for the pre-dawn Suhur meal [ 1].
At any rate, you've been hiring top performers wherever you could unearth them during the recession; that's way too important to delay or delegate.
Cadenzas sprang up in the early eighteenth century, when composers began indicating brief episodes where the performer should play freely, delaying a final cadence.
As I settled in there came the dreaded announcement, "Garble garble delay garble garble". I had thought my small donation had not been noticed by the musician, but I realized that I was busted when the performer got onto the delayed train and began to serenade me.
In a 10 September 2008 article published in The Times, Biman was labelled the worst performer for punctuality at Heathrow, with flights delayed on average by three hours.
This is the only jazz event I know where your arrival is delayed by ducks crossing the road and performers are joined onstage by flitting bats.
Delayed by the cold for a few weeks, the performers have now arrived.
At the practice level, many who were "top performers" based upon immediate assessment fell to lower quartiles of rank on the delayed assessment.
Although there have been previous instances of musicals delaying their opening dates more than once, the accidents that have befallen some of the show's performers have fed the frenzy.
It set a standard the rest of the program couldn't quite live up to, in part because outside the shelter of the tape delay, the exposed performers sounded less sure.
