Sentence examples for break a performance from inspiring English sources

Where a 19th-century orchestral percussionist mostly provided emphasis at cadential points and occasional painterly sound effects — the thunderstorm in the Beethoven "Pastoral" Symphony, for example — his modern descendant oversees a huge array of pitched and unpitched instruments, and from Stravinsky, Varèse and Bartok forward, his work could make or break a performance.

MORRISTOWN Skate and Break, a performance featuring hip-hop dancers and roller skaters.

THE COMMUNITY THEATER "Skate and Break," a performance for school-age children on hip-hop dance techniques combined with roller-skating.

"Today feels like our last performance," Mr. Fitzgerald said during a break, "a performance for each other, and for the show.

At the other end of the spectrum, some participants only break a sweat at performance centers.

Do you really think this relationship will break over a performance?" They really wanted to make me feel guilty.

Wall Street was off to a good start as it looks to break a string of weak performances Thursday.

It remains a remarkable feat that McCartney hardly seems to break a sweat during his extended performances and doesn't so much as stop even to take a sip of water.

Similarly, when one of the puppets in "The Lion King" breaks during a performance, there is no time for delicate engineering.

Updated, Aug. 5 | Wendy White, the Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano who was hospitalized in December 2011 after an eight-foot fall when a piece of scenery broke during a performance, is suing the Met for damages as a result of the accident.

The con man – who poses as a band leader in an Iowan town – gets a group of bickering school board members to croon the word 'ice cream' before breaking into a performance of Sincere as fireworks explode behind them.