With a nice sense of symmetry, the second part of the concert began with a major work for a solo string instrument, too.
Chief of state: President Ezer Weizman Head of government: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu The year 1997 began with a major agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.
The subscription series began with a major new symphony by one of the finest composers around, Stephen Hartke, a Los Angeles resident inexplicably ignored by Mr. Salonen.
After a string of bad knocks including a widely derided performance at last week's presidential debate, Jeb Bush vowed yesterday to "reset and get better" beginning with a major speech in Tampa, Florida, that will attempt a newly positive tone.
On a day that began with a major ruling against Republican voting laws in North Carolina, a federal judge in Wisconsin issued a sweeping ruling that declared a number of Republican-authored election laws in that state unconstitutional.
NEW DELHI Pakistanan plans to sell valuable energy assets, beginning with a major gas field, as it tries to reap billions of dollars from deals with investors in industries like banking and farming.
Like bookends, Iraq is closing the year just as it began, with a major confrontation that has exposed sectarian and ethnic rifts that hundreds of billions of American dollars and thousands of lives have not reconciled.
Mr. Cunningham also said that the party's decision would not change Mr. Bloomberg's campaign strategy, which is to "go directly to the voters," beginning with a major television advertising campaign set to start Tuesday.
RECITALS ALFRED BRENDEL A week notable for its piano programs begins with a major event: the final New York recital of the legendary European pianist, who will perform Haydn's Variations in F Minor, along with sonatas by Mozart, Beethoven ("Quasi una Fantasia," Op. 27, No. 1), and Schubert (in B-Flat Major, D. 960), at Carnegie Hall.
