Sentence examples for start of a performance from inspiring English sources

When a stage manager announces the start of a performance, London actors don't hear the word "places".

Albarn's comments come at the start of a performance by the Orchestra of Syrian Musicians, the latest world music project to arrive in Britain under the auspices of his Africa Express organisation.

At the start of a performance by the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the troublemakers, who included the composers Louis Andriessen and Reinbert de Leeuw, began making noise with nutcrackers, rattles, bicycle horns, and other devices.

The act of drawing can itself be a gripping spectator sport (Rolf Harris made a career out of it), and I've experienced few more absorbing starts to a performance than that of Rachel Blackman's one-woman play Steal Compass, Drive North, Disappear, which begins with a looping chalk line being drawn slowly and sensually around the theatre walls.

"You are the last 'Colbert Report' musical guest," host Stephen Colbert said at the start of a pre-performance interview with Lamar.

A double bogey on the next hole, the par-4 No. 1, was the start of a six-over performance on the second nine that left him at three-over 74.

Recalling a time when his father screamed his name from the audience at the start of a "Jersey Boys" performance, Longoria noted, "To go from [having] that really close-minded, ignorant, machismo attitude to be screaming my name in a Broadway house -- however inappropriate -- it was just a full-circle moment.

Lady Gaga got the show off to a rousing start with a performance of her current single, "Applause," demonstrating her quick-change skills in a succession of outré ensembles.

Farsalas acknowledges the challenges but thinks that when we do see the start of a new out-performance cycle, it's the small-caps that will benefit tremendously.

To start with, a performance evaluation of both techniques is carried out in order to find out which technique suits best for further analysis.

Recently computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has been successfully applied for the evaluation of the start-of-run performance of three-dimensional (3D) coil geometries in steam cracking reactors.