41.   Performance in the long run has way more to do with what you bring to it than with natural ability.

42.   So even there the performance had a priority.

43.   Still, each performance has compelling aspects, and there are marked differences between them.

44.   Some performances had to be canceled.

45.   Such a performance has cost investors dearly.

46.   Such performances have many analysts forecasting a robust first quarter.

47.   Still, under Barenboim the performances had urgency, great richness and unruly brilliance.

48.   That performance had Giants Coach Jim Fassel promising changes when his team meets the Dallas Cowboys next Monday.

49.   The actors had had only one three-hour rehearsal, earlier that day, so the performance had a spontaneous, raw quality that the audience clearly loved.

50.   The answer is a qualified yes, though his performance has to be taken in context.