Sentence examples for halt a performance from inspiring English sources

Mr. Gilbert's brave decision that night, to halt a performance and remedy a problem with firmness and dignity, brought new music to the Philharmonic.

Justin Bieber halted a performance in Spain because his fans weren't clapping properly.

In 2006 Mr. Zimerman halted a performance at Carnegie Hall when he believed he observed a concertgoer recording the recital.

One American official halted a performance of an 18th-century samurai drama and instead forced the theater company to produce Gilbert and Sullivan's "Mikado".

To really liven things up next season, the show's producers ought to borrow a feature from the old "Gong Show," which allowed judges to bring a merciful halt to a performance at any point.

Performance has religious significance, the gods being invoked and honoured, and a performance may be arranged to assure rain or to halt an epidemic.

While there have been plenty of powerful, high-wattage songs that erupt onstage and define the shows they're in, the showstopper literally halts a musical in mid-performance--sometimes for minutes at a time--while an audience rises to its feet with tumultuous applause.

The lawyers also asked a judge to halt job performance evaluations that are scheduled to begin this month.

The university self-imposed a suspension on the Mighty Marching Panthers on Aug. 30, halting all performances.

If she had stopped singing, signaled James Levine in the orchestra pit to halt the performance and asked the owner of that phone to take the call in the lobby, most of us would have applauded.

Jagger was later accused of failing to halt the performance, infuriating McLean's narrator: "I saw Satan laughing with delight; The day the music died".