Sentence examples for beginning of a performance from inspiring English sources

The front curtain was used to conceal the scenery and increase amazement at the beginning of a performance.

"I'm going to ask you three questions," the artist Genevieve Belleveau said at the beginning of a performance piece called "The Emoji Autism Spectrum".

This is the beginning of a performance by Oily Cart, one of the few groups that produce theatrical experiences specifically for children and young people, aged 3-19, with profound multiple learning disabilities or on the autistic spectrum.

It was gutsier, more emphatic and more desperate, opening up her voice and leaping upward to belt and beg, "Running away, are you running to me?" That was only the beginning of a performance that kept many of the electronic hooks of the songs but carried the music from private introspection to public storytelling, trading cool for heat.

The "Act Tunes" are played between acts, as the curtain was normally raised at the beginning of a performance and not lowered until the end.

It was the beginning of a standout performance by Stanton and confirmation of one of the Yankees' greatest strengths.

It was the beginning of an erratic performance by Lisicki, who had won the hearts of the crowds after her upset of No. 1 Serena Williams in the fourth round.

In the spring of that year Mendelssohn directed the Lower Rhenish Music Festival in Düsseldorf, beginning with a performance of Handel's oratorio Israel in Egypt prepared from the original score which he had found in London.

The title apparently means a bit more prime-time attention, as Mr. Minczuk was given his first subscription concerts to conduct this season, beginning with a performance of works by Wagner, Ligeti, Mozart and Brahms on Saturday night in Avery Fisher Hall.

In a small space without a stage, marked by a low-hanging metal scaffold, Daska, a small theater company from the nearby town of Sisak, begins a performance of "Waiting for Bread".

| July 29 at 8: "Sonidos Latinos," a major initiative in support of Hispanic music, begins with a performance of Marco Granados's "Venezuelan Suite," another world première.