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  • It was one Sunday afternoon when Nollie and her family were visiting that Peter suddenly spoke up in the middle of a Brahms concerto.†   (source)
  • A recording of Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto in C minor was being broadcast, and just as the second, beautiful, peaceful movement was coming to an end a German bomb destroyed the power station.†   (source)
  • He did, however, dig up and copy Camille Saint—Saens's Concerto for Violoncello.†   (source)
  • That was how the telegraphic correspondence with Florentino Ariza stopped being a concerto of intentions and illusory promises and became methodical and practical and more intense than ever.†   (source)
  • The concerto was approaching its end.†   (source)
  • Concertos are these tapestries, and all the other bolts of cloth are serenades, waltzes, overtures, and rhapsodies.†   (source)
  • He played a fragment from Beethoven's concerto.†   (source)
  • He chose the concerto that Ronnie had played at her performance at Carnegie Hall, and closing his eyes, he concentrated.†   (source)
  • Chris put a cello concerto by Dvotak on the stereo, but eventually we switched to the Dixie Chicks.†   (source)
  • Cox looked at the watchers, and bowed and waved like a musician who had just played a very difficult piano concerto.†   (source)
  • "Tell Jace Herondale that he plays Chopin's Concerto no. 2 very well," he said, and vanished after Tessa, into the crowd.†   (source)
  • She let a moment pass, before she said slowly and very carefully, "Richard Halley wrote only four concertos."†   (source)
  • One might have looked at them and thought they would compose concertos or epic poems.†   (source)
  • A violin concerto played from a hidden speaker.†   (source)
  • Halfway through the week, Abby and the girls were sitting on the screen porch one afternoon shucking corn, and they heard Mozart's Horn Concerto No. i playing out back.†   (source)
  • He dimmed his desk lamp and pressed the play button on his bookshelf stereo system, and in a moment the opening notes of Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor crept into the silence.†   (source)
  • When he was not performing himself, he played tapes of the great symphonies and concertos, so that the villa was never silent.†   (source)
  • …of a hotel room in Mazatlan whose door had just been slammed, it seemed forever, waking up two hundred birds down in the lobby; a sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west; a dry, disconsolate tune from the fourth movement of the Bartok Concerto for Orchestra; a whitewashed bust of Jay Gould that Pierce kept over the bed on a shelf so narrow for it she'd always had the hovering fear it would someday topple on them.†   (source)
  • I don't know why I was at the same time so buoyed up and saddened by the lovely and plaintive sound of the Haydn concerto for cello, washing down soft on the summer evening when I approached the house.†   (source)
  • By now, it was not likely she could play the opening movement of her Liszt concerto.†   (source)
  • Then I'd realize it was Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 20 in D Minor from two hundred years ago.†   (source)
  • If so, was he saved only because he was awake, working out a few kinks in the Elgar Cello Concerto?†   (source)
  • After a few bars of Piano Concerto no. 12, I was asleep.†   (source)
  • Are you using that for the concerto competition?†   (source)
  • Will you be trying for the concerto competition?†   (source)
  • And he's in the tunnel, blissfully fiddling his way through the Elgar Cello Concerto.†   (source)
  • It was the Fifth Concerto by Richard Halley, wasn't it?†   (source)
  • "I'm afraid I've got to hear the end of that concerto."†   (source)
  • She was hearing sounds now, even the music; it was Halley's mangled Concerto, somewhere far away.†   (source)
  • He stood still and listened; to Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto, which was moving away from him.†   (source)
  • The Concerto was a great cry of rebellion.†   (source)
  • They walked in silence, listening to the end of the concerto.†   (source)
  • But the concerto I dedicated to him is called the Concerto of Deliverance.†   (source)
  • The great burst of sound was the opening chords of Halley's Fourth Concerto.†   (source)
  • What made you think that there was a Fifth Concerto?†   (source)
  • Do you happen to know whether he has written a Fifth Concerto?†   (source)
  • It's the Halley Concerto," he answered, smiling.†   (source)
  • It was his Fourth Concerto, the last work he had written.†   (source)
  • It was Halley's Concerto swung into a popular tune.†   (source)
  • "The Fifth Concerto?" said Richard Halley, in answer to her question.†   (source)
  • Dagny listened to the Fourth Concerto, her head thrown back, her eyes closed.†   (source)
  • It was Halley's new Concerto, recently written, the Fourth.†   (source)
  • It was the Fifth Concerto by Richard Halley, wasn't it?†   (source)
  • You know that there are only four Halley Concertos.†   (source)
  • But in the candlelight, in the sweet rush of the concerto, Marie-Laure bites her lower lip, and her face gives off a secondary glow, reminding him of the marshes beyond the town walls, in those winter dusks when the sun has set but isn't fully swallowed, and big patches of reeds catch red pools of light and burn—places he used to go with his brother, in what seems like lifetimes ago.†   (source)
  • On the label at the center, it was identified as a recording of Vladimir Horowitz playing Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto at Carnegie Hall in New York.†   (source)
  • Of those concertos that only contain music original to Mozart, the earliest that is now regarded as a masterwork (No.†   (source)
  • Per Director Vavilov, Sofia's performance of Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto was to be the penultimate piece on the program, followed by a violin prodigy's performance of a Dvorak concerto, both with full orchestra.†   (source)
  • 9, K. 271) was not composed until he was twenty-one: by that time Mozart had already been composing concertos for ten years.†   (source)
  • Do you know Dvorak's Cello Concerto?†   (source)
  • Before I sent in my application, I had to practice every spare moment with Professor Christie to fine-tune the Shostakovich concerto and the two Bach suites.†   (source)
  • Mr. Ayers says he would have preferred to see Ma backed by full orchestra on a Beethoven concerto, but it's a small concern, and it's gone the moment the musicians appear onstage.†   (source)
  • I had to play five pieces: a Shostakovich concerto, two Bach suites, all Tchaikovsky's Pezzo capriccioso, which was next to impossible, and a movement from Ennio Morricone's The Mission, a fun but risky choice because Yo-Yo Ma had covered this and everyone would compare.†   (source)
  • He says he spent some time at the Central Library earlier in the day but couldn't find the desired Brahms double concerto, Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme, Mendelssohn's Third and Fourth Symphonies, Sibelius's Symphony No. 2, and Strauss's Don Quixote.†   (source)
  • There's little downtime with a column and a two-year-old, and after reading Goldilocks and the Three Bears and going through half a bottle of wine with dinner on an average evening, imagining a day when I join Nathaniel on the Elgar Cello Concerto is not a vision but a hallucination.†   (source)
  • A Liszt piano concerto.†   (source)
  • With the final phrases of the concerto reverberating in his mind, he slowly opened his eyes again and found himself sitting in the semidark kitchen.†   (source)
  • For several weeks a bleating, blurting, fogged version of Mozart's Horn Concerto No. i stumbled through the closed door of his room hour after hour, haltingly, relentlessly, till Red began cursing under his breath; but Abby patted Red's hand and said, "Oh, now, it could be worse.†   (source)
  • The boy caught her puzzled glance, grinned and, as if to help her, whistled softly, almost inaudibly the first notes of Halley's Fifth Concerto.†   (source)
  • We call it the Concerto of Deliverance.†   (source)
  • They could not hear the music of Halley's Fifth Concerto now flowing somewhere high above the roof, but Francisco's laughter matched its sounds.†   (source)
  • It was a few moments before she realized that she was whistling a piece of music-and that it was the theme of Halley's Fifth Concerto.†   (source)
  • THE CONCERTO OF DELIVERANCE On October 20, the steel workers' union of Rearden Steel demanded a raise in wages.†   (source)
  • She snapped the question at his face, as if hoping to catch him unprepared: "That's the Fifth Concerto by Richard Halley, isn't it?"†   (source)
  • "Draw your own conclusions…… Dagny"-his face was serious-"why did you think of Halley writing a Fifth Concerto?†   (source)
  • The music of Richard Halley's Fifth Concerto streamed from his keyboard, past the glass of the window, and spread through the air, over the lights of the valley.†   (source)
  • A fifth concerto, Miss Taggart?†   (source)
  • Yes, I know about that…… Yes, since you knew my work, you would know, when you heard it, that this Concerto said everything I had been struggling to say and reach.†   (source)
  • When the voice of Mr. Ayers, courteously eager, inquired of what service he could be to her, she asked, "Can you tell me whether Richard Halley has written a new piano concerto, the Fifth?"†   (source)
  • Why specifically a concerto?†   (source)
  • When he kissed her, she knew that their arms, holding each other, were holding their greatest triumph, that this was the reality untouched by pain or fear, the reality of Halley's Fifth Concerto, this was the reward they had wanted, fought for and won.†   (source)
  • She heard a piece of music beating in her mind, one she seldom liked to recall: not Halley's Fifth Concerto, but his Fourth, the cry of a tortured struggle, with the chords of its theme breaking through, like a distant vision to be reached.†   (source)
  • In the moment when she knew what experience had once made her want to surrender to the immediate present-it had been the night in a dusty coach of the Comet, when she had heard the. theme of Halley's Fifth Concerto for the first time-she knew that she was hearing it now, hearing it rise from the keyboard of a piano, in the clear, sharp chords of someone's powerful, confident touch.†   (source)
  • She heard the rising, accelerating sound of the wheels-and some theme of music, heard to the rhythm of wheels, kept tugging at her mind, growing louder-it burst suddenly within the cab, but she knew that it was only in her mind; the Fifth Concerto by Richard Halley-she thought: did he write it for this? had he known a feeling such as this? they were going faster, they had left the ground, she thought, flung off by the mountains as by a springboard, they were now sailing through…†   (source)
  • …her trip to the market in downtown Kinneret-Among-the-Pines to buy ricotta and listen to the Muzak (today she came through the bead-curtained entrance around bar 4 of the Fort Wayne Settecento Ensemble's variorum recording of the Vivaldi Kazoo Concerto, Boyd Beaver, soloist); then through the sunned gathering of her marjoram and sweet basil from the herb garden, reading of book reviews in the latest Scientific American, into the layering of a lasagna, garlicking of a bread, tearing up…†   (source)
  • One was the larghetto from the B-flat major piano concerto of Mozart—the last he wrote—and I had been with Sophie many times when she played it, stretched out on the bed with one arm flung over her eyes as the slow, sweet, tragic measures flooded the room.†   (source)
  • A few more moments' drowse riven by a sun-flooded, splendid, heart-wrenching, manic dream: herself begowned and bediademed, seated at the keyboard before ten thousand onlookers, yet somehow—astoundingly—flying, flying, soaring to deliverance on the celestial measures of the Emperor Concerto.†   (source)
  • Purcell's Trumpet Voluntary, the Haydn cello concerto, part of the Pastoral Symphony, the lament for Eurydice from Gluck's Orfeo—these were among the dozen or so of the shellac records I removed from the spindle.†   (source)
  • And of course there were the concerts too, at the Academy of Music and, in the summer, at Lewisohn Stadium in Manhattan, gorgeous music so cheap as to be virtually free, music like Beethoven's Violin Concerto played one night at the stadium by Yehudi Menuhin with such wild, voracious passion and tenderness that as she sat there alone high on the rim of the amphitheatre, shivering a little beneath the blazing stars, she felt a serenity, a sense of inner solace that amazed her, along…†   (source)
  • …Listen to WLX tonight, at eight, they'll have your pet—Rachmaninoff's Second Concerto….†   (source)
  • If you want to know what it is, he told himself, listen to the first phrases of Tchaikovsky's First Concerto—or the last movement of Rachmaninoff's Second.†   (source)
  • Concerto Grosso in F Major by Handel.†   (source)
  • Elizabeth, easy and unaffected, had been listened to with much more pleasure, though not playing half so well; and Mary, at the end of a long concerto, was glad to purchase praise and gratitude by Scotch and Irish airs, at the request of her younger sisters, who, with some of the Lucases, and two or three officers, joined eagerly in dancing at one end of the room.†   (source)
  • Lucy first put an end to it by saying in a lower tone, though Marianne was then giving them the powerful protection of a very magnificent concerto— "I will honestly tell you of one scheme which has lately come into my head, for bringing matters to bear; indeed I am bound to let you into the secret, for you are a party concerned.†   (source)
  • I dedicated my first piano concerto to Fay.†   (source)
  • I speak twenty languages, living and dead; I'm a mathematical whiz, and I'm writing a piano concerto that will make them remember me long after I'm gone.†   (source)
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