Sentence examples for at this first performance from inspiring English sources

Almost every musician of standing was present at this first performance.

To be fair to Harry and Paul, some of the creakiness is ascribable to teething problems at this first performance of their tour.

But Medora, the beautiful slave at the ballet's center, is an amorphous character, and Ms. Wiles did not seem quite settled into the part at this first performance.

Fortunately, he had second thoughts although at this first performance it must have been immediately clear even to Caine, adding an engaging solo elaboration at the piano, that he had seriously misjudged the balance between voices and instruments.

AT the first performance of an early run of "Amerissiah" in 2008, Derek Ahonen, the director and playwright, was becoming increasingly, intensely angry.

At the first performance of this ceremony, dancers carried wooden boards that Thomas had designed with earth-toned fields of ochre.

It was clear at the first performance that the young audience were primed for this standoff.

At the first performance I attended, the Ailey dancers did some aloof Naharin-style callsin calls.

But at the first performance of "Playboy," in Dublin in 1907, there were actual riots.

At that first performance, however, the Pastorale bore the number five.

At the first performance of Beethoven's seventh symphony, the audience immediately demanded to hear the second movement again.