With Allende's eventual triumph in 1970, Hortensia became the first lady of Chile, a task that she performed with elegance and grace amid the turbulent politics of the time.
During his 45 years as a recording artist, "El Divo de Juárez," who died Sunday from a heart attack in Santa Monica, California, was best known for gliding across the stage when he performed with elegance and unapologetic flamboyance. .
The concert opened with another work in C minor: Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3, performed with remarkable elegance by the superlative Romanian pianist Radu Lupu.
Mr. Shifrin played the rhapsodic clarinet part with soulful flair and a clear tone, while the Emerson performed with an unsentimental elegance that was restrained in the autumnal nostalgia of the first movement and passionate in the concluding con moto.
The mood switched abruptly with the lyrical Andante and the ensuing ornamental variations, which they performed with crystalline clarity and elegance before delving with gusto into the madcap tarantella of the finale.
Resplendent in a spangled aqua shirt and blue pants, Rippon began his program with a familiar robot-like maneuver, then performed with the grace and elegance of a ballet dancer.
The jazz version is usually performed with facsimile reverence to Ellingtonian orchestral elegance, most notably in its pristine rendering from the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra led by Wynton Marsalis.
The musicians performed with passion in the dark-hued opening and closing movements, introspection in the Adagio and lithe elegance in the sunny Scherzo.
She then performs her final, fatal dance with elegance and exhaustion, masculinity and femininity, and the full force of unchecked emotion.
Myers performs both of his roles with elegance — he is fundamentally relaxed — but his skill only underscores the clotted nature of the script he has to deliver.
His compelling performance balanced intense expressivity with elegance.
