Sentence examples for by the first performance from inspiring English sources

His String Quartet was first performed in Stockholm in 1965, followed the same year by the first performance of his orchestral song-cycle Paroles tissées.

It will be preceded by the first performance of a trumpet fanfare he wrote as a birthday present to his son, Andrew Burgess Wilson.

But the sonata isn't just an incessant pianistic battering ram: in just seven minutes, the piece creates a gigantic drama, in which there's melody – listen to the top notes of each of the hammered-out clusters; there are tunes in this piece, I promise – and a ferocious emotional concentration, embodied by the first performance indication, "Espressivissimo" – as expressively as possible.

As part of the celebrations for the centenary of the composer's birth in January 2005, English National Opera staged a dramatised performance of the work, directed by Jonathan Kent coincidentally, the first performance fell in the week of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the death camps at Auschwitz.

Perhaps as the run continues, the cast will warm to this traditional staging, which is now directed by Cynthia Edwards, but the first performance of the season was about as tepid, especially in the acting, as a "Carmen" can be.

The all-Finnish first half began with "Arena" by Magnus Lindberg, the composer in residence, and the first performance by the Philharmonic of this tour-de-force orchestra work composed in 1994-95.

This work, highly esteemed by Hans Richter, who conducted the first performance in 1899, brought Elgar recognition as a leading composer and became his most frequently performed composition.

The first performance, by the Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania orchestra, will take place on Feb. 29 at St . Justin

It will be the first performance by their group, Arts in the Armed Forces, since it gained nonprofit status in September.

That night, after the audience arrived, Ms. Lloyd appeared onstage to introduce "the first performance by nonanimals in this theater" to hearty applause.

He filmed the first performance by Andy Warhol's Velvet Underground, at a conference of psychiatrists in suits and posh dresses, fingers in their ears at the feedback.