Sentence examples for riveting concert from inspiring English sources

Sir Colin and the London players came to Avery Fisher Hall on Sunday afternoon, the first of three programs through tomorrow night, enthralling a hardy audience that had braved the day's snowy winds with a riveting concert performance of Britten's opera "Peter Grimes".

Beginning with a brilliantly characterful account of Shostakovich's Age of Gold suite, and taking in a mostly excellent and consistently riveting Petrushka, the concert concluded with a knockout performance of Tchaikovsky's Francesca da Rimini, in which an entire evening of pent-up energy released itself in a fireball of sound.

High Romanticism and rebellion were the underlying themes of Tugan Sokhiev's latest Philharmonia concert, a riveting effort that served as a reminder of what a fine conductor the young Russian has become of late.

Some concerts were riveting, others rambling; none were pointless.

Carpenter replaced the usual pre-concert Upbeat Live talk with a riveting, if peculiar, 25-minute recital.

But not every post by the politician, facing a trial at the international criminal court, is riveting: "Had a great time with my wife at the James Ingram concert last night.

Though the program was long and demanding (each one of these works contains a concert's worth of music to mull over), the audience was riveted.

But her portrait of the Peabody Conservatory is riveting: a cloister of obsessive, music-addled young people, driving themselves mercilessly to prepare for concert careers and surviving each day through the grace of Ace bandages and cortisone shots.