Sentence examples for pioneering performance from inspiring English sources

His debut at Covent Garden in 1963 came – typically – with another pioneering performance: Shostakovich's Katerina Ismailova.

A pioneering performance artist, Moorman was an important collaborator with many vanguard figures from the United States, Europe and Asia.

All eyes, especially those of rival publishers, will certainly be on the Independent's pioneering performance as an online-only publication.

"That's what Chris Burden did," he says, referring to the pioneering performance artist of the seventies, who did once have himself shot (in the arm) for art.

The aging Xirgu, preparing to play the role for the umpteenth time, recalls her pioneering performance back in 1927; it was this production, with sets by Dali, that launched Lorca's dramatic career.

The performance I saw was "Studio Study" (1996), in which a naked woman is bound with wide metal straps covering a good portion of her body; raw cotton oozes from the restraints as she balances on a pedestal for 45 minutes each day — a feat of endurance that recalls the work of pioneering performance artists like Ms. Abramovic and the late Ana Mendieta.

During Sibelius's lifetime, much was made of his supposed connection to Beethoven, and pioneering performances by Koussevitzky and Toscanini were correspondingly rugged and argumentative.

Esa-Pekka Salonen led the pioneering performances of the Sellars-Viola "Tristan" in Los Angeles last fall, and he travelled with the production to Paris.

His career soon picked up and, along with the staples of Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and other Romantic composers, he gave pioneering performances of newer works, such as Lennox Berkeley's Piano Concerto, premiered at the Proms in 1948 with Basil Cameron and the London Symphony Orchestra.

In addition to his early synthesizer work on Disney's Main Street Electrical Parade, Dorsey is also known for his pioneering performances of classical music on synthesizers.

"Some of our most vivid memories are associated with the music of Benjamin Britten and the pioneering performances of Noye's Fludde and A Ceremony of Carols which my mother Jayne Davies directed at Newtown High School and for BBC Wales television.