Sentence examples for posthumous performance from inspiring English sources

The first posthumous performance took place at the British Library with Melvyn Bragg taking her place in presiding over the evening and reading her splendid introduction to the life and work of WH Auden.

The Cunningham company gave its first posthumous performance last year in Rockefeller Park, in Battery Park City, and that's where the River to River Festival observed his death this year by presenting a commemorative performance called "We Give Ourselves Away at Every Moment: An Event for Merce," featuring work by five choreographers.

First it was Tupac, and now with Michael Jackson's posthumous "performance," the lawyers of famous people's estates everywhere are having to figure out how to add a "no hologram" clause to their wills.

"Help Wanted" features a posthumous musical performance from Tiny Tim singing his song called "Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight".

Many Grammy telecast viewers had, not surprisingly, expected Cole, who collected nine Grammys during her lifetime, to be among the musicians who died in the last year to receive a posthumous live performance tribute at Monday's 58th awards ceremony.

No year that brings a posthumous release of performances by the mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson can be all bad, and this year brought two.

Previous winners of Best Supporting Actor include Christopher Plummer, Christian Bale and Heath Ledger, who received a posthumous award for his performance in "The Dark Knight".

He was such a wonderful actor – what a pity, eh?" Another of Ledger's co-stars, Maggie Gyllenhaal,said that working with him had been "inspiring" and that his performance warranted a posthumous Oscar nomination.

The other notable omission would appear to be any posthumous nod for James Gandolfini for his performance in Nicole Holofcener's Enough Said.

Already, voice modeling and computer-generated imaging can bring posthumous stars back to provide authentic performances for videogames, films and advertisements.

Both qualities were best expressed in performance, which explains why the posthumous arrival of "The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965" — a boxed set containing all seven sets of a late-December weekend club engagement, on eight CDs — was greeted as such a windfall.