Sentence examples for first half of the program were from inspiring English sources

Yet the Britten and Shostakovich viola works in the first half of the program were perfectly judged and beautifully played.

Certainly the excerpts of "Gotterdämmerung" on the first half of the program were a reminder of just what gorgeous music this is.

The three works on the first half of the program were played without pause (or applause), and the Ives proved an ideal prelude to "The Wound-Dresser," John Adams's 1989 setting of verses from a Civil War poem by Walt Whitman.

The first half of the program was equally amazing.

But the first half of the program was equally worthy.

The first half of the program was slower to charm.

The first half of the program was significantly less memorable.

The first half of the program was devoted to the extroverted music of Telemann.

The first half of the program was dedicated to that history.

He pointed out that the first half of the program "was all about dance".

The first half of the program was less memorable, although competently rendered.