Sentence examples for staple performance from inspiring English sources
This June, the orchestra, under the direction of the German-born conductor Christoph Eschenbach, returned to China to commemorate the breakthrough, and Lang Lang signed on to be the soloist for the Grieg Piano Concerto and "The Yellow River Piano Concerto," a staple performance piece of the Cultural Revolution.
Although the barrel act remained his staple performance, he introduced variations over the years: freezing in a refrigerated chamber, or being roasted in a glass-fronted oven while a mechanised devil prodded him with a pitchfork.
Even if nobody could really call the Gibson a neighborhood venue, or a visually iconic part of L.A. music lore, its artist alumni roster is considerable, and it was a staple performance space for many essential genres in L.A. music.
So while it was impossible to top Staples' performance, several others came very close.
Endurance is a staple of performance art.
He said that Staples' kinetic performance recently resulted in a leg injury.
Both series have become eagerly anticipated staples of performance calendar.
Even Conor Oberst, that night's much-ballyhooed headliner, might have learned a lesson in showmanship by watching Staples' dynamite performance.
The song that closed the set was a spiritual only in a looser sense: it was "Body and Soul," a staple of jazz performance since the 1930's.
"Don Quixote" is the greatest of all fictional inquiries into the relation between fiction and reality, and so a good deal of the novel's comedy is self-conscious, generated when one or more of the characters seems to step out of the book and appeal either to a nonfictional reality or directly to the audience (a staple of pantomime performance and commedia dell'arte).
Whether it's in front of a crowd of predominantly white kids in Sacramento or mostly black and Latino kids in Brooklyn, on this tour, a performance staple has been asking the crowd to raise both hands up and to let him know how they feel about police.
