Sentence examples for went unperformed from inspiring English sources

Composed quickly, the work fell victim to bureaucratic whim and went unperformed.

But the opera did not take hold in New York; it went unperformed from 1913 to 1937.

Although their first stage musical, The Likes of Us (1965), went unperformed for 40 years, Rice decided to abandon his legal aspirations to pursue his musical interests.

The program draws on a set of partbooks that reside in the library of Peterhouse, Cambridge University, and that long went unperformed because all the tenor parts — and some of the treble — are missing.

For a long time, he was better known for his prose polemics than his music -- his major scores after "Lohengrin" went unperformed for decades partly because of his political status.

The film's title is itself something of a relic, directly borrowed from the first American opera, which was canceled before its scheduled premiere in 1767 and went unperformed for 170 years.

Because a key ceremonial act has gone unperformed, Peony enters a quasi-purgatorial state.

Afraid of banning the symphony outright, authorities allowed it to première to hysterical applause — before insuring that it went unreviewed and unperformed thereafter.

The script went unpublished and unperformed for a half-century, until it was rediscovered and dusted off by Barry Day, a Coward scholar; its current staging is the work of the Actors Company Theater, a nine-year-old troupe dedicated to reviving neglected plays.

A chic international public at an abandoned chemical factory in Birmingham eagerly awaited the famous scene in which a string quartet flies around in helicopters; uplifting as it was, it proved to be one of the less spectacular effects in Graham Vick's triumphantly bonkers production of the last unperformed installment of Stockhausen's "Licht" cycle.

Parts of his moribund Vasco da Gama and Ivan IV were incorporated into the score, but a projected production at the Théâtre Lyrique failed to materialise when Carvalho's company finally went bankrupt, and Noé remained unperformed until 1885.