While their technical levels were often admirable, the classical pieces Mr. Kozlov gave them were far too difficult for such relatively inexperienced performers.

Although some of the students already appear with the City Ballet as apprentices, it was a risk for Mr. Robbins to create a ballet on inexperienced performers.

The challenge of programming an evening of choreography for relatively inexperienced performers is to create dance that will acknowledge and expand their gifts without losing the audience.

And the production, directed by Thomas Kail and full of largely inexperienced performers doesn't improve it.

It's a plum role for an inexperienced performer who seems to share little with his character except ancestry and an accent.

This philosophy contributes to a very disturbing trend: young, attractive but inexperienced performers being cast in roles that are vocally inappropriate, and perhaps even perilous to them.

But then there is the fact that his backups include inexperienced performers, or players obviously not considered better than the starters.

The transformation, as part of the $50 million renovation, was indeed a startling one given Weill's former seedy, hall-for-hire ambiance notable often for its mediocre, inexperienced or impoverished performers.

Williams did, however, write that the singer was one of "SNL's" most inexperienced performers, having been booked solely on the strength of a two-song online EP.

It began on 7 Jan. 1826, when great dissatisfaction was caused by the substitution of many inexperienced orchestral performers for those who had played for many seasons.