Sentence examples for somber performance from inspiring English sources

The Merce Cunningham Dance Company, which has been presenting works at the Joyce since 1984, will offer perhaps the most somber performance of the season.

"Lady Vengeance," anchored by Lee Yeong-ae's somber performance, is Mr. Park's most coherent movie to date, and in some ways his most ambitious.

And he gave a captivating, though somewhat somber, performance of an unusual Brahms work, an arrangement for piano of the Theme and Variations movement from the String Sextet in B flat.

Death is more general, and the haunted 15th Symphony, the composer's farewell, has a fine, defiant and somber performance from the Concertgebouw Orchestra under Bernard Haitink in a recording made in 1979, when the work was still recent.

It's bittersweet and ironic, and the plucky score of synth-pop beats laced with lush acoustic guitar strumming adds an upbeat element to the otherwise somber performance.

Watch Scott's powerful and somber performance below: .

The more somber performances by Alfred Reiter (Sarastro) and Anthony Reed (The Speaker) were a welcome foil to Greg Fedderly's campy Monostatos.

The Republicans I spoke with immediately afterwards felt very somber about her performance.

Backing himself on guitar and loops with another guitarist offering delicate melodic runs, Sumney performed surprisingly somber and untethered songs, something he noted after a performance of his "Insular Peninsula".

The concert concluded on a similarly somber note, with a convincing performance by the bright-voiced soprano Natasha Uspensky.

Now they offer an eloquent performance of the somber Fourth on the ECM New Series label, which has produced a dozen discs of works by Mr. Pärt since 1984.