concerto
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In a Thursday night marathon, he paid tribute to the orchestra members, giving 17 players solos in various concerto movements.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
One of the first things he conducted at Ojai was “Gnarly Buttons,” a clarinet concerto by the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026
The opening night concert will see Korean piano sensation Yunchan Lim playing Ravel's piano concerto in G Major, and star tenor Thomas Atkins transporting the audience to France, via George Gershwin's An American In Paris.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
Suddenly, as the orchestra rehearsed the Saint-Saëns second piano concerto, the maestro walked angrily off the stage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
It was one Sunday afternoon when Nollie and her family were visiting that Peter suddenly spoke up in the middle of a Brahms concerto.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Their vacation schedule brings them together in spring, summer, fall and winter — in that order, in the story — a plan that conveniently allows for Vivaldi’s well-known violin concerti to fill up the soundtrack.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2025
Up north in Bellingham, the annual festival gets underway with an orchestral program featuring the dynamic pianist George Li in the Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3, arguably the best of that composer’s concerti.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2019
The mighty assortment of recordings of the symphonies, concerti, chamber music operas and sacred works justify the cost.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2016
They would play something like a dozen pieces each: preludes and fugues, chorales, chorale preludes, sonatas, concerti, variations, and “free” works drawn from Bach’s five decades as a working organist.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 3, 2014
He writes fugues for organs and sonatas for violin solo under the influence of Bach, concerti grossi under the influence of Haendel, variations under that of Mozart, sonatas under that of Brahms.
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld
As if to compensate, on a drizzly Sunday evening in Kyiv, a crowd gathered in the street beneath an apartment building’s third-floor balcony to hear a makeshift string quartet play concertos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
A festival that celebrates one of the country's most popular composers Sir Malcolm Arnold will mark its 20th year by playing 20 of his concertos.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025
Phil, Chin’s 2014 Clarinet Concerto and a pair of Brahms concertos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025
The festival finale concert combines a chamber reduction of one of the piano concertos from Mozart’s golden years in Vienna with a work directly inspired by it.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
Soft piano or violin concertos with orchestral accompaniments work well.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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