concerto
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To test it, he played a Tchaikovsky concerto, spanning its high and middle registers, finding sounds he “didn’t even know violins were capable of.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2025
The performances of the symphonies, on Thursday and Saturday, came across considerably more persuasively than the concerto did on Wednesday, though Mr. Zukerman, now age 77, was in fine, virile form.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025
And, at one point midpiece, it sounded as though one of the pianists was making a grand entrance to a Rachmaninoff concerto amid the beautiful roaring din.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2025
In 1945, Bartók, having fled Nazi-invaded Hungary, wrote his final piano concerto in a New York apartment on 57th Street, a block west of Carnegie Hall.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2025
I learned to tell the difference between Beethoven and Bach, between a sonata and a concerto.
From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper
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