| Charm, not incidentally, was one of the primary attractions of the program's curtain raiser, Mendelssohn's First Piano Concerto, with Garrick Ohlsson at the keyboard. |
| The Hopman Cup, a third competition for mixed teams, carries less prestige, but is a popular curtain raiser to the tennis season. |
| A French book by an Indian resident, being translated into English, this is but a curtain raiser to the next publication in line. |
| The last movement, sometimes a minuet, is an exuberant curtain raiser. |
| Last Sunday's Community Shield fixture, the curtain raiser on the English domestic season, pitched together two managers more likely to exchange blows than pleasantries on the Wembley touchline. |
| The other two games on the opening day took place at the Suwon Sports Complex, which was brimmed to capacity for Korea Republic's curtain raiser against Peru. |
