The opening work was the only unfamiliar one, the Chaconne, Op.

"Yuki" is too intense a dance to present as a program's opening work, as it was here.

Whatever its weak spots, "Danger Run" has a humanity that the program's opening work lacks.

Actually, only the opening work, a Telemann Concerto, was a full collaboration.

The opening work, "Piazzolla Caldera," by contrast, was over the top and succeeded as such.

The opening work, in fact, tore through any presumed bond between the composers.

Yet the turmoil of the opening work was also monotonous in its own way.

It will generally be the opening work at any programme or festival.

"Into Summer" (1987), the program's opening work, succeeded brilliantly on these terms.

Several of those techniques propelled the opening work, "Pipa" (1989), for three guitars.