Bruce Jackson, a guest of Def Dance who has acute cerebral palsy, is an extraordinary artist whose performing helps to define the art of dance itself.
Will Oldham, whose performing moniker has changed from Palace to Bonnie Prince Billy with several steps between, writes and sings as if he had swallowed the Smithsonian Folkways calalog whole.
Marilyn King, the last surviving member of the singing King Sisters, whose performing career began in the early 1930s and continued into the 1980s, died on Wednesday in Laguna Niguel, Calif.
Jerome Hines, a bass whose performing career spanned six decades -- including 41 years as a mainstay of the Metropolitan Opera, where he had the longest career of any principal singer in the company's history -- died yesterday at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan.
Ms. Triffle, whose performing career was born in the family kitchen, where, as one of 10 children, she became "the family clown" to get attention, was a dance student at Portland State University looking for a more theatrically expressive medium.
He began his career in dance as a take-charge young artist whose performing and fledgling choreography were fueled more by apparent self-confidence than by deep knowledge of the art form.
IN an Audi commercial that had its premier during the Super Bowl, Kenny G, the saxophone player, made a self-deprecating appearance as a "prison riot suppressor" whose performing instantly put unruly inmates to sleep.
French-born Chinese American cellist Yo-Yo Ma, whose performing career had encompassed everything from Bach cello suites to Appalachian folk songs and East-West fusions with his Silk Road Ensemble, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. Pres.
The new piece is nicely complemented by two of Bach's violin concertos, in which Mutter is partnered by the Trondheim Soloists, whose performing style is a hybrid between modern techniques and period ideas: they use baroque bows but on metal stringed instruments.
And Blue Note have just reissued a remastered version of his 1962 debut, Takin' Off, made when he was a 22-year-old whose performing career already went back a decade, since he'd played Mozart with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when he was only 11.
