Sentence examples for and the first performance from inspiring English sources

At Dartmouth the ending of the piece was changed overnight, between rehearsal and the first performance.

And you ignore those lessons – from the reading and the first performance, however chaotic – at your peril".

The season was scheduled to kick off with a party on Sept. 17, and the first performance was set for Oct. 25-26 with A.O. Movement Collective.

But it was not designed to highlight Boulez's own works, and the first performance of his earliest uncontested masterpiece, Le Marteau Sans Maître, for voice and ensemble, took place in 1955 in Baden-Baden, Germany.

Al Pacino -- who allowed himself one day's rest between the last performance of "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui" and the first performance of this "Salome" -- clearly loves the part of Herod, and why not?

ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER (Sunday and Tuesday) The company returns to Brooklyn with old favorites and the first performance in 35 years of Ailey's "Mary Lou's Mass," commemorating the centennial of the birth of its composer, Mary Lou Williams.

This is Mr. Wheeldon's fifth premiere for this company, and both the first performance on Tuesday and the second on Wednesday were heartily cheered.

The composer and violist Paul Hindemith stepped into the breach and gave the first performance.

Symphonie pour un homme seul (1952; later called Collage) was performed to Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry's composition of the same name and was the first performance in the United States of musique concrèt, or music constructed from tape-recorded environmental sounds.

Handel conducted weekly at his premises, and gave the first performance of the Messiah there.

At the end of 1830 he first met Hector Berlioz and heard the first performance of his Symphonie fantastique.