God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today.