The first of two programs is straightforward: performances of the Symphonies No. 3 (his most romantic and subjective) and No. 4 (the essence of tragedy, and a summit of pure technique).
This award-winning quartet from Prague, one of three Czech quartets featured at the Y this spring, will also give more straightforward performances, of Beethoven's Op. 18, No. 6, and Alexander Zemlinsky's Quartet No. 1. Tomorrow night at 8, 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue, (212) 415-5500.
As the show's token child, through whose eyes we are meant to see the world, Mr. Hall gives a terrific, straightforward performance that conveys a matter-of-fact acceptance of the fantastical.
But the acoustic guitar and the straightforward performance was good, probably the best performance of the night, though not one to save.
Under Mr. Macal they exuded awareness to the tips of their fingers, showing the best meaning of Tchaikovsky to reside, ultimately, in a great, straightforward performance.
Rise was fun, to be sure, with a self-assured and straightforward performance by James Franco.
The work is described as a dialogue between Maqoma and his contributors and promises to be far more than a straightforward verbatim performance of the joint efforts, as he reinterprets their material in his own distinctively offbeat style.
He promises that this year four of the five nominated songs will be presented by their creators in straightforward performances.
For straightforward expressivity, the performance of "Das Lied" compared favorably with the more personalized, highly manipulated rendering that James Levine and the Met Orchestra had given in the same hall two and a half weeks earlier.
Far from being a showbiz gimmick, for me dressing as I please has signalled the end of a lifelong performance of straightforward masculinity.
