"It's very hard to keep parents aligned to the school when all the promises you make to them about new facilities go unperformed," the lawyer said.

However, the opera went unperformed in Vienna; the singers and musicians did not like it, and intrigues prevented the work from reaching the stage.

Later that year or in 1825, he began to compose the opera Les francs-juges, which was completed the following year but went unperformed.

Created as part of an opening act for Chris & Cosey but went unperformed.

Ives was a loner whose major works went unperformed when they were new.

This all-important dramatist goes unperformed on New York's major stages for years on end, and it's probably just as well.

Fortunately, this tendency came late in his ten-year span, otherwise, a significant quantity of great music would have gone uncreated and unperformed.

The concerto went unperformed until January 1986, when it was brought to light by the forces that play it on the recording.

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

That, of course, is often the plight of new operas, the vast majority of which go unperformed a second or third time.