Sentence examples for first two recitals from inspiring English sources

Playing the first two recitals, Aug. 2 and 9, respectively, are Ellen Espenschied and Dan Kehoe.

AUSTRIAN CULTURAL FORUM: "DISCOVERIES" Elisabeth von Magnus, a Viennese mezzo-soprano, takes the stage at the Forum's diminutive, blond-wood concert hall for the first two recitals in a series devoted to German and Austrian songs, a little off the beaten path.

In the first of two recitals, he plays the Sonatas in C (D. 840) and D (D. 850) and the Drei Klavierstücke (D. 946).

In the first of two recitals, he performs "Till Dawn Sunday," a program offering an unconventional mix of short pieces by Piazzolla, Bartók, Elgar, Gershwin, Harold Arlen, and more.

On Sunday afternoon at Alice Tully Hall, Ms. Fleming's love of the art song and commitment to the music of her own time will be in evidence as she presents the first of two recitals in Lincoln Center's Great Performers series devoted to new and recent American songs.

The opera star brings her love of the art song and commitment to the music of her own time to Alice Tully Hall on Sunday when she performs, with the actress Julie Harris, in the first of two recitals devoted to recent American songs.

Monday night she played the first of two recitals at Hahn Hall, the intimate recital venue of Music Academy of the West, in which she will traverse Bach's six Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin.

The always elegant Jose Van Dam sings the second of two recitals devoted to the French song literature.

This program, the second of two recitals, is devoted to the music of Schumann, a composer who specialized in cycles of songs.

This at least was the impression left by the first of three recitals titled "Maryinsky Academy of Young Singers Sing Shostakovich" at Weill Hall.

But at Carnegie Hall on Friday evening the cellist Yo-Yo Ma joined the pianist Emanuel Ax in the first of three recitals Mr. Ax is devoting to the two composers.