The suite opens with a dramatic Prelude that pulses forward in rigorous spans of two-part counterpoint.
Brahms's youthful, tumultuous concerto, symphonic in scope, opens with a dramatic roll of thunder from the timpani.
It opens with a dramatic flash-forward to Greenland in 1783, and an Inuit widow standing at the brink of a precipice.
The short Prelude opens with a dramatic passage for orchestra and piano before a "distant choir" of violins and harp plays a snippet of the hymn "Bethany" ("Nearer My God to Thee").
Neal Goren, Gotham's artistic director, conducted a lively reading of the colorful score, which opens with a dramatic overture (published separately during Haydn's lifetime) that reflects the Sturm und Drang style of his symphonies.
And although Sugar Mouse, which opens with a dramatic sweep of strings and some jauntily plucked banjos before Gwen's cutey-pie voice coos into focus, is probably their best song, their forthcoming album, You Can't See the Stars From Here, shows some depth and range.
Gentry's most unusual book was "The Last Days of the Late, Great State of California" (1968), an imaginative portrait of California's culture and politics under Gov. Ronald Reagan, which opens with a dramatic account of the state falling into the Pacific Ocean after a massive earthquake.
Klein's new book, Politics Lost, opens with a stirringly dramatic unscripted speech given by Bobby Kennedy on the death of Martin Luther King.
HuffPost Comedy: First of all, season 2 opens with a super dramatic, "Cake Train" scene that is pretty mind-blowing.
The golfer who won last year's Open with a dramatic 15-foot par putt at Pinehurst No. 2 died Oct. 25 on a ghostly Learjet that plunged into a South Dakota field.
