Sentence examples for at the first note from inspiring English sources

A soloist twitches at the first note, clasping her hands to her breastbone.

CAROLINE is oblivious to her anger and, picking up the diary, begins to read from it, opening at the first note.

Boyle had his audience at the first note, but he deepened the effect with precision-targeted imagery: geese, ploughs, maypoles, set amid a fantasy village green.

The religious songs signify the end of the concert, and she always closes with "Humoresque" - whereupon her husband, who in self defense went outside at the first note of the program, goes back indoors, as does the author.

He cries at the first note of a Judy Garland ballad; gets warm and fuzzy when he hears Tony Bennett, who, like the Beatles, was another in his impressive list of Carnegie Hall presentations (until his Stones show got him banned).

At the first note from a rival, the territory holders rushed in, "ready for a fight," says Tobias.

Rarely do audiences express so much pleasure at the first notes of yet another new song from an aging artist's album.

Britten's "War Requiem," the centerpiece of this year's White Light Festival at Lincoln Center, is, from the first note to the last, an impassioned denunciation of the modern machinery of war.

According to legend Chabrier burst into tears at the sound of the first note, an A from the cellos, and remained barely coherent for the rest of the evening.

High on Nardil and June light I wake at four, waiting greedily for the first note of the wood thrush.

You should attack the first note at the same time as if you were playing no glissando.