The phrase "a work that began" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a project, piece of art, or any endeavor that started at a specific time in the past.
Example: "The novel is a work that began in the author's youth and evolved over several decades."
Alternatives: "a project that started" or "an endeavor that commenced".
The show has the moxie of a work that began in the theatrical Funkytown of the annual New York International Fringe Festival.
Notable among them is "The City at Night," which on Nov. 13 will feature Copland's "Quiet City," a work that began in 1939 as incidental music for a short-lived play that evoked an after-hours urban setting.
Yet, said Bob, when he joined the Berkeley faculty, Miłosz immediately used his funds to hire a secretary and dictated The History of Polish Literature — a work that began to put Polish poetry on the map of American consciousness.
The sense of emerging from the chrysalis and realising your true nature is at the heart of Velvet Petal, a work that began when Darkin read Patti Smith's memoir Just Kids.
It was a work that began in 1944, as he worked with the Reception Group and it was largely complete by late 1946.
Resembling an oversized simian brain, a gigantic honeycomb or some kind of alien starship pocked with holes, this otherworldly structure is part of "Fluid Infinities," a work that began with a few children's blocks in 2005, and culminates on stage Sept. 5 at the Hollywood Bowl.
This may be a work that begins with the question, posed by a 13-year-old girl in 1809, of just what "a carnal embrace" is.
The result – The Whole Earth Dances – is a work that begins abrasively but gradually acquires a sense of vision through the intricate interweaving of lyrical lines and a steady infusion of super-enriched, Messiaen-like harmony.
Between the Kreisler pieces Hahn-Bin played Schnittke's sharp-edged Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 (1963), a work that begins with an icy Prokofiev-like energy but melts into a regretful Largo; and the unaccompanied Cadenza of Krzysztof Penderecki's Violin Concerto, which stands alone effectively as a moody soliloquy.
The ensemble, conducted by Jeffrey Milarsky, opened the program with "L'Oeuvre au Noir" (1990), a work that begins with low-lying instruments -- trombones, cellos, bass, a tenor flute and a bassoon -- creating a murky texture that is soon relieved by sparkling harp figures and the gently woody ringing tones of a vibraphone.
The pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, one of the orchestra's five artistic partners, as it calls them, conducted Karlheinz Stockhausen's "Kontra-Punkte," a work that begins with points of musical color that gradually develop into contrapuntal lines, which in turn dissipate as one player after another drops out while seemingly remaining at the ready.
