An orchestration was therefore commissioned in secret from Friedrich Cerha and premièred in Paris ( under Pierre Boulez ) only in 1979, soon after Helene Berg's own death.

A Woman of Paris premièred in September 1923 and was widely acclaimed by critics for its subtle approach and flawed characters.

During the event, the video for a fundraising single was premièred, Bowie's duet with Mick Jagger.

Nerone was premièred in Milan on January 16, 1935, followed by the première in Livorno on August 24.

Cilea's last opera, premièred at La Scala in Milan on 15 April 1907 under the baton of Arturo Toscanini, was the 3-act tragedy Gloria, again with a libretto by Colautti, based on a play by Victorien Sardou.

The first single, " Rudebox ", was premièred on radio by Scott Mills on his show on BBC Radio 1.

This was unexpected and forced Gilbert and Sullivan to race to complete and rehearse their new opera, The Pirates of Penzance, which premièred with much success on 31 December.

* Samuel Barber's operatic version of the play was premièred in 1966.

That same evening Smetana's third opera, Dalibor, was premièred at Prague's New Town Theatre.

Her last major work was the Concerto de la fidelité for coloratura soprano and orchestra, which was premièred at the Paris Opera the year before her death.

Although in considerable pain near the end of his life ( requiring repeated surgery on his back ) he was able to fulfil a commission from the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Éclairs sur l ' au-delà …, which was premièred six months after his death.

Birtwistle gained notoriety in 1995 when Panic was premièred on a live BBC television broadcast, in a prominent and unusual setting, on the second half of the Last Night of the Proms, which traditionally features mainstream, popular and patriotic music.

It was heavily cut on its original release, but a restored version was premièred at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, seven years after Fuller's death.

The work was premièred at the Vigadó Concert Hall, Budapest in 1889, but was not well received.

Noted for her performances of Bach and modern English music, she was a friend and advocate of Arnold Bax and also premièred Vaughan Williams ' Piano Concerto-a work dedicated to her-in 1933.

The Third Quartet was premièred this way by the Concord String Quartet at New York's Alice Tully Hall, on March 15, 1976 ( the composer's fiftieth birthday ) ( Rockwell 1976 ).

It was announced in 2012 that a semi-biographical musical / concert film would be premièred at the Toronto film festival, utilising 22 songs from her back catalog and backed by Peaches ' band the Sweet Machine.

The tour generated considerably more press interest than the launch of the film Thomas and the Magic Railroad which was premièred in London the same weekend.

Cooke's revised and completed version, conducted by Goldschmidt, was premièred at the Proms on 13 August 1964 and recorded soon after.

The original, incomplete Cooke version was first recorded by the BBC as noted above ; the first complete version ( denoted Cooke I ) was also premièred by Goldschmidt, this time with the London Symphony Orchestra in 1964 ; the first commercial recording appeared in 1966 ( recording date: 1965 ), conducted by Eugene Ormandy and his Philadelphia Orchestra.

He found that if he was tired enough at night, he went to sleep simply because he was too exhausted to stay awake.

Dawn would come soon and the night was at its coldest.

And he was fleeing, running -- fleeing his death and his life at the same time.

Then he was on his way at a gallop.

He scuttled in shadow along the east wall of the stockade and then followed the south wall until he was at the rear of the two frame buildings.

A man was standing in the open door of the lighted orderly room a few yards to Mike's left, but he, too, suddenly made up his mind and went racing to join the confused activity at the east end of the stockade.

Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.

I was nearly thirty at the time.

only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.

I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

laughing at a dying man, laughing as a man was beaten to death.

He'd started a fire and put coffee on, and now was busy at the work board of his chuck wagon.

Hank had gathered wood for a cookfire, and his wife was busy at it now.

Tom Horn was soon back at work, giving his secret employers their money's worth.

Haying time was close at hand, and they needed some strong branches to repair a hay rack.

`` It was Brenner's idea '', Jess mumbled, dabbing at his nose.

Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.