Several chamber and solo instrumental works were performed, with the composer present to discuss them.
Mr. Sondheim will be present to discuss the project before the performance.
In December, 2000, he held a meeting in Austin, with Democrats present, to discuss education reform; he was both charming and knowledgeable, and his visitors came away impressed.
And recently Weill Recital Hall was nearly filled for an evening of music by Peter Lieberson, with the composer present to discuss his works.
Two of these cases occurred when a Private Secretary and a Special Adviser were present to discuss diary arrangements for the lecture in Sri Lanka.
The director Cherien Dabis will be present to discuss her film, a popular success in this year's New Directors/New Films festival.
Talks to work out the final kinks will continue on Tuesday, when legal representatives of the Sicilian region will be present to discuss details related to the silver, which archaeologists say was looted from Morgantina, a site in central Sicily.
"From June, we go to meetings organized by publishers, often with authors present, to discuss 'la rentree litteraire,"' said Pierrette Berthaume, the fiction buyer for a Left Bank shop that is owned by Gallimard but also sells books by other houses.
The French ambassador to Denmark, François Zimeray, who was present to discuss the Charlie Hebdo attack, wrote on Twitter moments after that he was "still alive in the room".
The other, "Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters," was a murder-mystery frolic set more mellifluously by Ned Rorem, who was present to discuss his time in Paris afterward.
Then, comprehensive analysis is presented to discuss the calculating steps using linear matrix inequality (LMI) technique.
