Sentence examples for first curtain from inspiring English sources

George Balanchine's "Concerto Barocco" had its premiere in 1941, 21 years before the first curtain rose on Paul Taylor's "Aureole".

At first curtain ushers could go through the house and collect from anyone who desired to remain.

The fans at Yankee Stadium, who have booed White more forcefully as his average has plummeted, gave him his first curtain call this season.

Even as the singers walked onstage together for the first curtain call, you could hear the crew behind the curtain striking the set.

It earned Wigginton, a 24-year-old second baseman starting for the injured Roberto Alomar, his first major league homer and his first curtain call.

Every performance has been thrilling, but what I remember most is the last moment before that very first curtain four years ago.

That was arguably the first curtain-wall construction on a metal frame.

It was among the first curtain-wall buildings in New York, a triumph of glass volume over concrete mass, pure balance over specious symmetry.

His creation, called the Tower Building, opened in 1889 and is usually described — at least by New York partisans — as the first curtain-wall building in the world.

By far the boldest -- and, at $245 million, the most costly -- of the options for space features a 10-story addition to be built atop the Secretariat Building, New York City's first curtain-walled glass skyscraper and, along with the sprawling, saddle-shaped General Assembly Building, a widely recognized emblem of the organization.

At first curtains were used only for the bed of the lord and his lady, but later they were also used for the beds of those in their immediate entourage.