Sentence examples for its first performers from inspiring English sources

Gordon, meanwhile, was represented by Potassium, dedicated to its first performers, the Kronos Quartet (potassium's symbol in the periodic table being K).

From the nearer end of Mr. Ligeti's career comes the bag of songs "With Pipes, Drums, Fiddles" (2000), for mezzo-soprano and four percussionists, also featuring its first performers: Katalin Karolyi and the Amadinda Percussion Group.

Although Ivanov was credited with the hoop dance in the original 1892 "Nutcracker," belatedly, Shiryaev has been acknowledged as its choreographer as well as its first performer.

He was one of the first performers of his generation to do that, by the way.

And the first performers to record many of their songs were black.

"I'm William Robinson," said one of the label's first performers and one of the most loyal to Mr. Gordy.

I think the greatest thing in Edinburgh is the spectrum from first performers to professionals, and we should all call ourselves different strands of simply the Edinburgh Festival".

The breezy, smart cabaret duo Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano are not the first performers who come to mind when you think of heavy-duty ballads steeped in mystery, seduction and obsession.

Samisen was used for folk music and party songs, but, in keeping with the biwa origin of the first performers, narrative music was of prime importance.

First performers associated with the Incubator Arts Project offered three programs devoted to Mr. Ashley's chamber music, spread across four evenings at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery.

Sometimes you have the impression that the first performers of the piece have been speeded through, by a kind of time-lapse photography, into becoming their contemporary equivalents.