Sentence examples for it was first performed from inspiring English sources

The setting of Psalm 147 - strident, brassy and decisively forward-looking for its time - must have upset more delicate sensibilities when it was first performed in 1906.

It was first performed in 1944.

It was first performed in October 1981.

It was first performed in Vienna in 1798.

It was first performed in Paris in 1859.

It was first performed, to great acclaim, in 1950 on Broadway.

The last of his three ballets, it was first performed in December 1892.

Commissioned by Toscanini, it was first performed by the Ellington Orchestra at the old Met.

When it was first performed, in 1970, "El Cimarron" was thrilling.

Look Back in Anger defied dramaturgy when it was first performed and it still would now.

It was first performed by 1,000 female volunteers at the Royal Albert Hall that year.