concerto
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Together they gave the concerto a sense of unity that is rare, albeit with fewer fireworks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
“No” to the Hollywood Bowl, where a concerto lasts longer than most L.A. marriages, “no” to hiking in Fryman Canyon and certainly “no” to ballroom dancing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
His account on Friday night of Mr. Salonen’s five-movement clarinet concerto “Kinēma” was an alchemic blend of technical acumen and tonal splendor in one of the composer’s most immediately enjoyable works.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 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
He was playing a fragment of a Beethoven concerto.
From "Night" by Elie Wiesel
He made a playlist of about 30 classic concerti, narrowed that down to 20 and listened obsessively.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 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 will perform three Beethoven concerti, as well as piano recitals featuring a variety of repertoire.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2012
It is not that fugues and concerti in the olden style cannot be written to-day, that modern music and the antique forms are incompatible.
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
"There's so many strings in there that can wander out of tune, especially when you're playing big piano concertos," Terry explains.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2025
Phil, Chin’s 2014 Clarinet Concerto and a pair of Brahms concertos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025
A rare performance of one of the piano’s most gargantuan concertos.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2024
Whether I play the blues or boogies, concertos or cantatas, I forget about me.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
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