11.   Rubinstein, who commissioned the work, gracefully portrayed St. Sebastian in dance and mime but was said to have undermined the narration with her heavy Russian accent.

12.   The patron who commissioned this work would never have seen it as it is displayed for us in Boston today, fully unrolled.

13.   The Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University commissioned the work along with the American Dance Festival.

14.   The work was commissioned as a television opera by NBC but was later rejected by the network.

15.   The work was commissioned by the South Coast Repertory in California, where it will be presented in January.

16.   Theater professionals say they hope the conference also deals with the question of how to develop talent and commission new work to maintain the flow of productions.

17.   The work was commissioned for Levine and Taub by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.

18.   When you commissioned a work from a Jewish scribe, you had to house and feed him.

19.   Yet it was the American Dance Festival that commissioned the work with Lincoln Center.

20.   The IOC coordination commissions work with local organizing committees on all key issues of Olympic planning.