Although this pressure is often the by-product of high-level sports, after some time, it is not always healthy to have that tension surrounding performance every time you step on the field.
The surrounding performances are also variable.
This does not come across as an insight into the character's isolation, but rather as an actor's bravura solo turn (in spite of surrounding performances of clarity and precision).
The song, the rock site Blabbermouth says, "is about the [US] government's attempts to use the controversy surrounding performance-enhancing drugs as a distraction from their own global sins".
Though I saw much beautiful work in rehearsal, much of it is vitiated by the practices that surround live performance, especially at the festivals.
Debate in the present tense will certainly surround this performance, and getting audiences to engage emotionally with the often-graphic portrayal of incestuous love is, I suggest, a unique challenge.
The audiovisual surround sound performance is part of Boiler Room's Sunday Sessions, and will take place at MoMA PS1's VW Dome.
This was one of those occasions when the sentiments surrounding a performance eclipsed what was being performed.
An aura of distinction and refinement surrounded musical performance.
His choice of Let It Be to close the show was a poignant one given the circumstances surrounding his performance.
