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Known for creating an indelible VMAs moment when she kissed Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera onstage during a 2003 medley, Madonna also opened the show with her first performance at the event since that night.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
Glass then gave the rights to the Boston Symphony for a July 5 first performance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
For singer and flautist Miadhachlughain O'Donnell, from County Down, the scale of what the group are now doing would have seemed unimaginable during that first performance.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
The first performance, then, became a staging in Magdeburg, Germany, last year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026
Would survivors and relatives of the Lakota Sioux Indians butchered at the Wounded Knee Massacre, which took place just three years before the symphony’s first performance, have recognised its melodies as theirs?
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
