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  • There are no winners or losers at a recital.†   (source)
  • She had played it at a recital the summer before.†   (source)
  • Another recital party tradition.†   (source)
  • Harry was deeply thankful that Professor Sprout ushered them into greenhouse three at that point, forcing Ernie to abandon his recital.†   (source)
  • He made more money and went to more get-togethers—weddings and parties, concerts, jam sessions, hootenannies, funerals, recitals, rehearsals, gigs in bars—than seemed possible for one kid.†   (source)
  • And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano bench.†   (source)
  • We would exchange remedies and try to outdo each other in the recital of ourphysical miseries; gently we would complain, our voices soft and minor key and mournful as pigeons in the eaves troughs.†   (source)
  • We moved to Tahoe right before my final recital.†   (source)
  • They make a point of driving into Cambridge with the children when the Apu Trilogy plays at the Orson Welles, or when there is a Kathakali dance performance or a sitar recital at Memorial Hall.†   (source)
  • Then he rubbed his hands together vigorously with his fingers extended, like a pianist about to begin a recital.†   (source)
  • It meant I'd have a steady job, the house with the white picket fence, and a minivan or SUV big enough to haul our kids to school or to the dentist or off to soccer practice or piano recitals.†   (source)
  • I was busy showing them to their cabins and staterooms, explaining how the sinks and toilets and showers worked, opening trunks and telling about meals and showtimes for our onboard cinema and piano recitals in the A-Deck starboard lounge.†   (source)
  • I was a terrible dancer — they always put me in the back for recitals," I admitted.†   (source)
  • Root played impromptu recitals on a rented piano.†   (source)
  • Every Sunday Betsie would scour the papers, British, French, and German as well as our own, since the radio brought in stations from all over Europe, and plan the week's program of concerts and recitals.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Eleanor Marie Dantzler, the wife of Mr. Devotee Dantzler, the company-store manager, started to plan her winter piano recital, an annual social event.†   (source)
  • Lernar says he has a guitar recital on Saturday.†   (source)
  • Then he launched into a recital of the afternoon's events, leaving out only one detail—that the men in Luke's apartment had been the same men who'd killed his father seven years ago.†   (source)
  • On that final day at the radio station, I was giving a Chopin recital.†   (source)
  • But can we do a recital?†   (source)
  • As for my father, for years I spoke to him on the phone about once a month, the conversations polite and newsy, a recital of things that happened.†   (source)
  • Before he knelt down to pray before the altar in the bedroom, he ended the recital of his misery with a sigh as mournful as it was sincere: "I think I am going to die."†   (source)
  • If my life would be nothing more than Nobu, and dance recitals, and evening after evening in Gion, I couldn't think why I had struggled so.†   (source)
  • Today he had come for more than the recital of his rules.†   (source)
  • That's what Josie called that posse, for lack of a better term-the girls who wore belly-baring tanks and who, during the student-run recitals, made up dances to the songs 'Booty-licious' and 'Lady Marmalade.'†   (source)
  • I just don't know her, and so I was having trouble paying attention to the details of her disastrous dance recital.†   (source)
  • He ran a scale on the piano and launched into his piece from the recital, Grieg's March of the Trolls, with its energy and dark joy.†   (source)
  • "But Leo has a game Friday afternoon, and Astra's dance recital is on Saturday, and I promised I'd be there.†   (source)
  • She was eight when a talent agent caught up with my mom and dad in the parking lot after her ballet recital, offering them a card and saying they should give him a call.†   (source)
  • Kate, almost mesmerized by Miro's recital, asked, "What was your assignment in America?†   (source)
  • Between that and school and private instruction and recitals, it hadn't left much time for a social life, but it was a small sacrifice.†   (source)
  • We had seen him at a recital in the home of a Madame LeClair, who lived there also, which was at that time an extremely fashionable street; and this Madame LeClair, with whom Lestat was also occasionally amusing himself, had found the musician a room in another mansion nearby, where Lestat visited him often.†   (source)
  • The voice rose and fell in a rhythmical, dreamlike recital-part enumeration of earthly trials undergone by the congregation, part rapt display of vocal virtuosity, part appeal to God.†   (source)
  • By two o'clock, when the trainee reports for work, Lourdes has cash deposits on seven birthday cakes (including one peanutbutter-and-banana-flavored layer cake topped with a marzipan Elvis); a sixty-serving sheet cake for the closing recital of the Bishop Lowney High School marching band; a two-tiered fiftieth-anniversary cake "For Tillie and Ira, Two Golden Oldies"; and a double-chocolate butter cream decorated with a wide high heel for the retirement of Frankie Zaccaglini of…†   (source)
  • She had countered with a suit for half of her husband's millions, and with a recital of his private life which, she said, made hers look innocent.†   (source)
  • It was a grim recital of assassinations, plane crashes, train derailments, and crop failures.†   (source)
  • More WOMEN arrive during his recital, including IYALOJA.†   (source)
  • We had our share of cotton-gin fires, epidemics, storms, and lawsuits, of course, but the only diversion we could count on was protracted meetings, recitals, ice cream socials, fish fries, and lectures — a doctor talking up his cure for cancer, an old man telling how he tracked a mammoth moose for nineteen days back in 1856, a young fellow talking about "Across Asia on a Bicycle."†   (source)
  • I slip back into the ballroom, where the girls perform their recital.†   (source)
  • She was about to remind me of it but I said Boswell aloud, very slowly as if in a recital or bee.†   (source)
  • And she invariably ended the recital with a note of pride in her voice, as she said: "And I never run my train off the track, and I never lost a single passenger."†   (source)
  • Over the course of the summer, Red heard long recitals of Pookie's tribulations with Queen Eula.†   (source)
  • Nothing is more natural than to first use a general phrase and then to explain and qualify it by a recital of particulars.†   (source)
  • His fingers played over the controls like those of a welltrained pianist giving his first recital.†   (source)
  • She taught jazz and tap and acrobatics and choreographed routines for the dance recitals.†   (source)
  • I've watched a Chinese audience laugh, visit, talk-story, and holler during a piano recital, as if the musician could not hear them.†   (source)
  • But now it again becomes necessary to mention that Sophie was not quite straightforward in her recital of past events, even granted that it was her intention to present a very abbreviated account.†   (source)
  • She did indeed hold a recital of her pupils every June that was a fair model for Miss Eckhart's, and of many another as well, I suppose.†   (source)
  • I opened up the Schumann book to the dark little piece I had played at the recital.†   (source)
  • After the recital I had to wait two hours before the shelling died down enough for me to get home.†   (source)
  • I am sitting with my cello, the one Mom and Dad gave me after my first recital.†   (source)
  • We haven't done recital party in so long."†   (source)
  • In a few weeks, she will perform Tchaikovsky's Chanson Triste at a recital.†   (source)
  • The day of the recital, Mother told Dad I had a "thing" that night.†   (source)
  • No other mother came to the recital dressed in red sequins.†   (source)
  • My first recital, though, was years before I met her.†   (source)
  • Mother hadn't told Dad about the recital, and neither had I. I didn't ask him to come.†   (source)
  • They climbed the six flights of stairs easily—laughing and planning for the dance recital.†   (source)
  • On Saturday he makes it through the guitar recital, on Sunday through most of Zabi's soccer match.†   (source)
  • After Mommy died, we never had another recital party.†   (source)
  • When my mom was alive, every Christmas we'd have what she called a recital party.†   (source)
  • And when I gave a concert or recital, it was alone, on a stage, my cello, myself, and an audience.†   (source)
  • Was this why she'd kept the recital from him?†   (source)
  • I've got a dandy of a recital present for you.†   (source)
  • I always hated recital party I used to beg and beg not to have to play.†   (source)
  • We began rehearsals for the Christmas recital, and Caroline called Mother to discuss the costume.†   (source)
  • "I THINK WE SHOULD DO RECITAL PARTY this year," Margot says from her spot on the couch.†   (source)
  • And after the recital, I got my present.†   (source)
  • I planned to trail off quietly, by cutting back my obsessive practices, not giving recitals.†   (source)
  • Mid-wrap, Margot decides that we should have recital party the day after Christmas.†   (source)
  • I hated real piano recitals because I was the worst in my age group and Margot was the best.†   (source)
  • I asked her, because she had never been one of the girls I'd see at dance recitals.†   (source)
  • I was getting ready for the recital, remember?†   (source)
  • Often, Pookie delivered her recitals even though Red was present.†   (source)
  • For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello.†   (source)
  • I went from recital clothes to recovery clothes to repulsive clothes.†   (source)
  • But when she got to the Dvoiak, the final piece of her recital, something came over her.†   (source)
  • I've been playing recitals and festivals, but this will be different.†   (source)
  • Twenty-year-olds don't normally play recitals at Zankel Hall.†   (source)
  • I have a spare day before the recitals begin.†   (source)
  • JUNE RECITAL Loch was in a tempest with his mother.†   (source)
  • What the story "June Recital" most acutely shows the reader lies in her inner life.†   (source)
  • The night of the recital was always clear and hot; everyone came.†   (source)
  • For the recital was, after all, a ceremony.†   (source)
  • With recital night over, the sensitivity and the drive too would be over and gone.†   (source)
  • And it could seldom be worn again; certainly not to another recital— by then an "old" dress.†   (source)
  • Cassie's father always said the recital was planned that way, in all its tactics and dress.†   (source)
  • But recital night was Virgie's night, whatever else it was.†   (source)
  • A recital dress was fuller and had more trimming than a Sunday dress.†   (source)
  • Ignoring the stiff formality of her recital dress, she sits at the piano; it's a concert Steinway as ebony as the night, and just as long.†   (source)
  • He arranged recitals at his home and office and joined the best clubs and collected the best wines and was now leading the greatest nonmilitary campaign in the nation's history.†   (source)
  • Even as the horrid recital continued, two guards came out of the bunkers, carrying between them the form of a man.†   (source)
  • When morning came, the visions were gone and she could hear the quiet recital of words in the living room.†   (source)
  • Harry was deeply thankful that Professor Sprout ushered them into greenhouse three at that point, forcing Ernie to abandon his recital.†   (source)
  • But as for the changes I'd expected—the prominent dance recitals paid for by my danna, lavish gifts provided by him, even a day or two of paid leisure time—well, none of these things happened.†   (source)
  • So although the General may not have sent me to Tokyo for dance recitals, or presented me with precious gems, no one could suggest our okiya didn't do well by him.†   (source)
  • There was a recital of murmured names.†   (source)
  • After supper my father would fold his hands over his stomach, lean back, close his eyes dreamily and bore us with his monotonous recital of visions of a Sosnowiec that existed only in his fond imagination.†   (source)
  • A single meeting might include a recital of the Magnificat in Latin by a group of Roman Catholics, a whispered hymn by some Lutherans, and a sotto-voce chant by Eastern Orthodox women.†   (source)
  • After giving more than two thousand concerts and recitals all over the world, my father retired from public concert life in 1986 to devote himself entirely to composing.†   (source)
  • Angel had invited Kiara to the recital, and the Washington, since they had to drop Kiara off anyway, decided to stay.†   (source)
  • Nearing Himmel Street, in a hurry of thoughts, a culmination of misery swept over her—the failed recital of The Grave Digger's Handbook, the demolition of her family, her nightmares, the humiliation of the day—and she crouched in the gutter and wept.†   (source)
  • In the years since then, Mameha had grown only more famous by putting on a number of widely publicized dance recitals at the Kabukiza Theater in Tokyo, usually attended by the prime minister and a great many other luminaries.†   (source)
  • I sometimes give recitals in the building at number 8 Nar-butt Street in Warsaw where I carried bricks and lime — where the Jewish brigade worked: the men who were shot once the flats for German officers were finished.†   (source)
  • Not only will her danna cover all of her living expenses, such as her registration fee, her lesson fees, and her meals; what's more, he'll provide her with spending money, sponsor dance recitals for her, and buy her gifts of kimono and jewelry.†   (source)
  • Dad asked a lot of questions, which surprised Mother, and after a few minutes she admitted it was a dance recital.†   (source)
  • MOTHER MUST HAVE FELT guilty after the recital, because in the weeks that followed she searched for something else I could do, something Dad wouldn't forbid.†   (source)
  • I have had nightmares before—falling nightmares, playing-a-cello-recital-without-knowing-the-music nightmares, breakup-with-Adam nightmares—but I have always been able to command myself to open my eyes, to lift my head from the pillow, to halt the horror movie playing behind my closed lids.†   (source)
  • Chapter 20 — Recitals of the Fathers†   (source)
  • And maybe this was why even though Adam willingly submitted to Schubert symphonies and attended any recital I gave, bringing me stargazer lilies, my favorite flower, I'd still rather have gone to the dentist than to one of his shows.†   (source)
  • This is not happening right now At recital party, with everyone I've ever known my whole entire life in the next room.†   (source)
  • First no recitals.†   (source)
  • I'd hoped she'd forgotten all about her grand idea to have recital party, but Margot's memory has always been killer.†   (source)
  • She sat through hours of piano recitals, school plays, baseball and football games, she taught each of the children to swim, and she laughed aloud at the expressions on their faces the first time they walked through the gates of Disney World, On her fortieth birthday, Jack had thrown a surprise party for her at the country club, and nearly two hundred people showed up.†   (source)
  • And just so everyone was clear, there was no way on God's green earth that he'd be caught dead at a violin recital.†   (source)
  • Instead, she stared out at the freezing December rain and spoke of her last recital, the most important recital of her life.†   (source)
  • I've been framed; the recalcitrant child before the piano recital, or, more like it, the bullet-scarred war horse, veteran of early, barely remembered battles, about to be presented with a gold watch and a handshake and a heartfelt vote of thanks.†   (source)
  • Leon paused in the recital.†   (source)
  • She used to wear it up like that for recitals and chamber music concerts, but with little pieces hanging down, to soften the severity of the look.†   (source)
  • She began playing Opus 32, 1, a piece she was preparing for an upcoming recital, and one I especially liked.†   (source)
  • Violin recital.†   (source)
  • She continued scheduling their weekend outings, and attended the after-school activities that I could never go to because of the store, the soccer matches and the Brownie meetings and, of course, the piano lessons and recitals.†   (source)
  • Since Lilly would be graduating soon and moving out, I knew her recital that night might be my last opportunity to watch her dance.†   (source)
  • My friend Lily continued calling me for months, but the only things she ever had to talk about were auditions and recitals and practice.†   (source)
  • I will never get back the months of my lift that I spent in rehabilitation and in and out of hospitals, instead of in recitals and in and out of school.†   (source)
  • On the morning my daughter's last dance recital was scheduled, I was sitting at the breakfast table reading the paper when Caroline wandered into the kitchen rubbing her eyes.†   (source)
  • And I know I sound like a crazy person, mumbling to myself sometimes, but I'm just talking to Mom about what skirt to buy or to Dad about a recital I'm nervous about or to Teddy about a movie I've seen.†   (source)
  • But another part, the churlish part, wants to remind her of all of the chamber music concerts, string quartets, and recitals I once sat through.†   (source)
  • I have the two recitals in Japan and one in Korea on Thursday, so I could be out of there by Friday, and you gain a day back when you travel west.†   (source)
  • Now, I try to summon the details, to recall if it said anything about Mia leaving juilliard or playing recitals at Carnegie Hall.†   (source)
  • You come to my recitals.†   (source)
  • I found myself so caught up in my own didactic spell that at last all the doubts and wonderments about Sophie's past that had lingered there since her recent long recital scattered from my mind, even the most dreadful and mysterious uncertainty: what had finally happened to her little boy?†   (source)
  • Walking next to me, Sophie wound her arm around my waist and her perfume momentarily stung my senses, but I understood the gesture by now to be merely sisterly or friendly, and besides, her long recital had left me far beyond any stirrings of desire.†   (source)
  • Even in the small and literal way, what I had done in assembling and connecting all the stories in The Golden Apples, and bringing them off as one, was not too unlike the June recital itself.†   (source)
  • She was wearing her recital dress, which made her look larger and closer-to than she looked at any other times.†   (source)
  • Better than school's being let out-for that presupposed examinations-or the opening political fireworks-the recital celebrated June.†   (source)
  • They went on Mondays and Thursdays at 3:30 and 4:00 and, after school was out and up until the recital, at 9:30 and 10:00 in the morning.†   (source)
  • The recital audience always clapped more loudly for her than they did for Virgie; but then they clapped more loudly still for little Jinny Love Stark.†   (source)
  • Virgie had a sudden recollection of recital night at Miss Eckhart's-the moment when she was to be called out.†   (source)
  • What Virgie played in the recital one year, Cassie (gradually improving) would come to the next, and Missie Spights had it one more step in the future.†   (source)
  • Last night-though it seemed long enough ago now to make the recognition clever-Emma had come out with Eugene to a music hall, and it had turned out that this Spaniard performed, in solo recital.†   (source)
  • There were gold chairs, their legs brittle and set the way pulled candy was, sliding across the floor at a touch, and forbidden-they were for the recital audience; their fragility was intentional.†   (source)
  • Knowing that too, and dressed beautifully in a becoming flowery dress just right for a mother on recital night, Cassie's mother could not walk across the two yards on time to save her life.†   (source)
  • The dress must be made with the fingers and the edges of bertha and flounce picoted, the sash as well; and-whatever happened-the costume must be saved for recital night.†   (source)
  • He ended the recital with a formal bow-as though it had been taken for granted by then that passion was the thing he had in hand, love was his servant, and even despair was a little tamed animal trotting about in plain view.†   (source)
  • Miss Eckhart assumed that there would be a new dress for every pupil for the recital night, that Miss Perdita Mayo would make it, or if not Miss Perdita, who even with her sister could not make them all, then the pupil's own mother.†   (source)
  • Miss Perdita Mayo, who had made most of the recital dresses, was always on the front row to see that the bastings had all been pulled out after the dresses got home, and beside her was Miss Hattie Mayo, her quiet sister who helped her.†   (source)
  • She carried them downstairs from Miss Snowdie's freely, of course, and then even from Mr. Voight's, for no matter what Miss Eckhart thought of Mr. Voight, she wouldn't hesitate to go in and take his chairs for the recital.†   (source)
  • It was a terrible recital.†   (source)
  • She laughed with pleasure as she grew accustomed to it all, and through the recital she would stay much in evidence, the first to clap when a piece was over, and pleased equally with the music she listened to and the gold chair she sat on.†   (source)
  • They felt no less sure of that when they heard, every recital, every June, Virgie Rainey playing better and better something that was harder and harder, or watched this fill Miss Eckhart with stiff delight, curious anguish.†   (source)
  • Your Honor, literally I shrink from the mere recital of this dastardly crime.†   (source)
  • To cover his embarrassment at being caught by Scarlett, he plunged hastily into a recital of news.†   (source)
  • It did not sound like the recital of a participant.†   (source)
  • At the end of the recital the Chinese made a gesture of understanding.†   (source)
  • Because that night--the night after the recital--he got back his memory.†   (source)
  • Well, said Mary Seton, about the year 1860—Oh, but you know the story, she said, bored, I suppose, by the recital.†   (source)
  • A few nights after leaving Japan, Sieveking was prevailed upon to give a piano recital on board, and Conway and I went to hear him.†   (source)
  • I had some in my possession and it was easy to slip it into Marston's almost empty glass during the tense period after the gramophone recital.†   (source)
  • I had been to a recital of old church music in the Cathedral, a beautiful, though melancholy, excursion into my past life, to the fields of my youth, the territory of my ideal self.†   (source)
  • Mrs Pengelley, her reticence leaving her, plunged into a full recital more suited to the ears of her medical attendant.†   (source)
  • And this to the uncle was pleasure indeed, for he was homesick in the great city; and something inside him was deeply satisfied by this recital.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Hubbard murmured, "Pleased to meet you, I'm sure," to all three of them in an abstracted manner and then plunged once more into her recital.†   (source)
  • Father Vaillant was deeply stirred by the priest's recital, and after the old man had gone he declared to the Bishop that he meant himself to make a pilgrimage to this shrine at the earliest opportunity.†   (source)
  • Unable to agree with the Gentlemen's Glee Club as to the program for their next recital, the ladies had waited on Melanie that afternoon and announced their intention of withdrawing completely from the Musical Circle.†   (source)
  • By the time the constable's recital was over, we had arrived at Leigh House, a big, desolate house surrounded by an unkempt, weed-ridden garden.†   (source)
  • The serving-boy, who knew a little Spanish, was apparently trying to get the point of the recital which made the Padres so merry.†   (source)
  • There had been a pause, imposed by the High Lama's call for further refreshment; Conway did not wonder at it, for the strain of such a long recital must have been considerable.†   (source)
  • Miss Ella Stowbody obliged with a recital of "The Recessional" and extracts from "Lalla Rookh."†   (source)
  • A last word, before we enter on the recital.†   (source)
  • At the close of this recital, Arthur turned his eyes upon the impudent and wicked face.†   (source)
  • "What do you mean?" demanded the archdeacon, who had been gradually appeased by this recital.†   (source)
  • Haley began a pathetic recital of his peculiar troubles.†   (source)
  • Imagination will readily supply the meager recital of poor Bartleby's interment.†   (source)
  • Your character was unfolded in the recital which I received many months ago from Mr. Wickham.†   (source)
  • She eyed his crafty face narrowly, as she inquired to his recital of Toby Crackit's story.†   (source)
  • His recital finished, the abbe reflected long and earnestly.†   (source)
  • I had been doing this, in an excess of attention to his recital.†   (source)
  • So far each recital confirmed the other; but when she came to the will, the difference was great.†   (source)
  • This recital was for him the occasion of veritable triumph.†   (source)
  • All this was achieved in much less time than is occupied in the recital.†   (source)
  • Madame Danglars had listened to this recital with a sigh, a tear, or a shriek for every detail.†   (source)
  • Charles and Hal begged her to get off and walk, pleaded with her, entreated, the while she wept and importuned Heaven with a recital of their brutality.†   (source)
  • Mr. Jellyband had appealed to the company in general, who were listening awe-struck and open-mouthed at the recital of Mr. Peppercorn's defalcations.†   (source)
  • In his descent to the valley, Venters's emotion, roused to stirring pitch by the recital of his love story, quieted gradually, and in its place came a sober, thoughtful mood.†   (source)
  • He smiled at my recital.†   (source)
  • 'He related facts which I have not forgotten, but at this distance of time I couldn't recall his very words: I only remember that he managed wonderfully to convey the brooding rancour of his mind into the bare recital of events.†   (source)
  • But he had no time to continue with this train of thought, for Lawson poured out a frank recital of his affair with Ruth Chalice.†   (source)
  • She reveled in the Art Institute, in symphonies and violin recitals and chamber music, in the theater and classic dancing.†   (source)
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