Sentence examples for opening with the first from inspiring English sources

Opening with the first two numbers from Sensible Shoes, "Yes, again" and "Squirrel Carnage", which manage to be both rhythmically implicit and diverse, the alto sax duo of Chris Williams and Pete Grogan set up simple melodic themes and fracture them with short, sharp, effective solos.

After opening with the first five tracks from "Pool" — a gesture that for just about any other long-running band would seem combative, but here seemed a matter of course — Radiohead offered a sampling from each album other than its mostly disowned debut, "Pablo Honey".

Industrially cut from the young-adult mould though it is – with its story of youngsters hothoused into a totalitarian society's five specialised factions – studio Lionsgate opted for a low-risk opening with the first film, ushering it out into 18 territories last March.

(The festival opens with the first of the weekends, "Here Comes the 20th Century," on Jan . 19.

The track opened with the first Daytona 500 on Feb. 22, 1959.

Alex Ross's book opens with the first performance of Richard Strauss's Salome on 9 September 1905.

The opera festival opens with the first of seven performances of Puccini's "Turandot," directed by Hugo de Ana of Argentina.

The monthlong retrospective opens with the first two parts of "The Godfather," Hal Ashby's "Harold and Maude," and Peter Bogdanovich's "Paper Moon"; other classics to come are "Chinatown and Nashvillele".

Thanks largely to Ludwig, Bayreuth's Festspielhaus opened with the first complete performance of the monumental four-part "Ring des Nibelungen".

It opens with the first work Stokowski performed with the ensemble, his own arrangement of "The Star-Spangled Banner," and also includes Ives's Fourth Symphony, whose premiere Stokowski and the orchestra presented in 1965, 11 years after Ives's death.

The program opens with the first revival since 2000 of "The Office" (1994), one of Mr. Morris's most haunting, individual and ambiguous dramas, which perfectly introduces the wavelengths that the rest of the program investigates.