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In the first half of the program, on Thursday evening at Avery Fisher Hall, Jeffrey Kahane, a conductor who began his career as a pianist, played two of Mozart's meatier piano concertos -- No. 17 in G and No. 20 in D minor -- leading the orchestra from the keyboard.

Stravinsky conducted the first Philharmonic performance of "Apollo" in 1940, and at an appearance with the orchestra three years earlier he led the first Philharmonic reading of the work that shared the first half of the program on Saturday, Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 17 in G (K. 453).

The Mozart concerto was on the first half of the program, to be followed by Respighi's orchestral pieces "Roman Festivals," "Fountains of Rome," and "Pines of Rome".

At his most recent Carnegie appearance, on December 7th, Trifonov devoted the first half of the program to Schumann.

Mr. Davies devoted the first half of the program to Arvo Pärt's "Lamentate" (2002), a somber, halting 40-minute meditation on mortality, or as Mr. Pärt put it in his program note, "the pain and hopelessness of the world".

The first half of the program focuses on teaching the fundamentals of web development, starting with Python and moving on to other topics like Flask, Django, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, and incorporating plenty of guest lectures.

On Sunday she offered Rossini's "Giusto ciel, in tal periglio" and Bellini's "Dopo l'oscuro nembo" and "La Ricordanza" on the first half of the program and songs by Duparc and Weill on the second.

In the first half of the program the choruses took turns on stage to sing two or three numbers each, mostly a cappella.

Mr. Steel closed the first half of the program with Mendelssohn's Choral Cantata on "Vom Himmel Hoch".

The first half of the program was devoted to music played on a Renaissance lute.

119 Bagatelles on the first half of the program.