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  • It was a placid explosion of orange and red, a great chromatic symphony, a colour canvas of supernatural proportions, truly a splendid Pacific sunset, quite wasted on me.†   (source)
  • Big, booming Beethoven symphonies blast from her CD player all day long.†   (source)
  • It was all intertwined, a silent symphony echoing the deepest secrets of the Priory of Sion and Leonardo da Vinci.†   (source)
  • As we moved through the foyer of the symphony hall, where clusters of smart people stood with handbags and programs in one hand, gin and tonics in the other, I saw this response pass through them in a gentle ripple that followed us to the stalls.†   (source)
  • The occasional solo of the whip added to the symphony of brutality Adarlan had created for its greatest criminals, poorest citizens, and latest conquests.†   (source)
  • He'd once appeared as a soloist for the Chicago Symphony, when he was only fourteen, but now—in his wavy-haired thirties—he was a man who was more dedicated to the visual than to the acoustic.†   (source)
  • Each performs its own exact function as a unique being, and everything would be a symphony of peace if the hand that wrote all this had stopped on the fifth day of creation.†   (source)
  • The electronic symphony.†   (source)
  • A modern novelist could no more write characters and plots than a modern composer could a Mozart symphony.†   (source)
  • In fact, every time I brought up his name--when I said, for instance, that Rich and I had gone to the symphony, that Rich had taken my four-year-old daughter, Shoshana, to the zoo--my mother found a way to change the subject.†   (source)
  • "Perhaps when you go to college you can learn to write symphonies or plays of your own," she said.†   (source)
  • SHE PLAYED VIOLIN with the Fargo Symphony Orchestra and taught at North Dakota State University until her retirement several years ago.†   (source)
  • The steps protested my weight with a symphony of shudders and creaks, but they held, and what I discovered upstairs—compared to the bombed-out ground floor, at least—was like a time capsule.†   (source)
  • There is no television to watch in the evenings, just an old stereo on which they sometimes play a symphony or jazz.†   (source)
  • He glanced around over the heads of the shocked audience, toward the stage where the symphony had gone silent.†   (source)
  • Welty was the one who took me to music lessons and to the symphony but Hobie was the one always home, you know, who went upstairs and made me a snack after school and helped me plant marigolds for my science project.†   (source)
  • "Her specialty was Mozart's fourteenth symphony."†   (source)
  • The burial ground greets the sun with a symphony.†   (source)
  • She appears to be conducting a symphony.†   (source)
  • I woke feeling as if I hadn't slept at all, head thrumming like a symphony.†   (source)
  • It was the strangest and most beautiful symphony the Consul had ever heard.†   (source)
  • First it was Theodore Thomas, conductor of Chicago's symphony, who saw the island as the ideal site, the only site, for a music hall worthy of the fair.†   (source)
  • Anthony Burgess has a novel about the Russian winter defeating the French emperor, Napoleon Symphony (1974), in which he brings to life, better than anyone, that geography and that weather: the vastness of it, the emptiness, the hostility to the invading (and then, retreating) troops, the total absence of any possibility of comfort or safety or solace.†   (source)
  • It was a three-story library, three levels built around an open atrium, everything fashioned in wood and copper and silver, a symphony of muted color.†   (source)
  • "Skinny Delivery Boy, you are talking to a very old woman who doesn't think much good music has been written since Ludwig van Beethoven finished his Ninth Symphony."†   (source)
  • All around me, Coalwood was always busily playing its industrial symphony of rumbling coal cars, spouting locomotives, the tromping of the miners going to and from the mine.†   (source)
  • I supposed he could distinguish between the sounds of war machines the same way I could pick out an off-tune violin in a Rachmaninoff symphony.†   (source)
  • A lucky thing: One of the first-floor cops is just opening the stairwell door, no doubt alerted by the symphony of alarm bells and buzzers that has begun to merge into a solid wall of hysterical sound.†   (source)
  • The Germans filmed performances of operetta at the Femina cinema in Leszno Street, and the symphony concerts conducted by Marian Neuteich given at the same venue once a week.†   (source)
  • Mack simply sat, Jesus next to him, and inhaled the visual symphony.†   (source)
  • Everyone was pointing upward at the sky, which was turning. into a symphony of color.†   (source)
  • One of them was Schubert's Eighth Symphony (Unfinished).†   (source)
  • There's no point to symphonies, when scratches from the record or hum from the record player sound just as good.†   (source)
  • They defined our life now, and while parts of us missed the leisurely vacations, lazy Saturdays reading novels, and romantic dinners that lingered late into the night, we had come to find our pleasures in new ways—in spilled applesauce and tiny nose prints on windowpanes and the soft symphony of bare feet padding down the hallway at dawn.†   (source)
  • She'd been listening to Mozart's Jupiter Symphony as performed by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in 1947, and Ishmael, seeing it on the turntable, imagined her in bed with that melancholy music playing and a cup of tea beside her.†   (source)
  • I only know the Moonlight Sonata and the Fifth Symphony.†   (source)
  • A whole symphony of desire.†   (source)
  • His favorite old theatrical fantasy, the one in which he thought of himself as "Perry O'Parsons, The One-Man Symphony,"-returned in the guise of a recurrent dream.†   (source)
  • He stared at the equations until they melded together, and then he began to scrawl furiously, a composer with a symphony moving too fast for his fingers.†   (source)
  • The Shostakovich Fifth Symphony was on his record player; the play, Happy Hunting Ground, lay open on his bed, under his night light.†   (source)
  • Symphonies are the large beautiful carpets with all the rhythms and melodies woven in.†   (source)
  • I moved at a near sprint, drawn toward a symphony, primitive passion.†   (source)
  • Not only was Douglass Preston a billionaire hedge-fund manager, but his wife was a scion of society, involved in charities ranging from art museums and the symphony to inner-city schools.†   (source)
  • One player on the team was a cellist with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's youth program.†   (source)
  • She had a lot of popular music but she had symphonies, too.†   (source)
  • From the way they were pillow talking I was worried I was about to be treated to the symphony of another make-out session.†   (source)
  • Her parents were out at some symphony concert, so we had the house to ourselves to make a frozen pizza and watch movies.†   (source)
  • He drove a car or any vehicle as if he were conducting a symphony.†   (source)
  • In the Fifth and Ninth symphonies, Beethoven used the trombone as a noisemaker.†   (source)
  • It was the most perfect symphony, a symphony in one instrument, an instrument more profound than any created by man…… "Bella, love?†   (source)
  • Likewise, liberal contributions often go to elite universities or symphonies.†   (source)
  • It's as if we're conducting a symphony of harps through our fingers, and it sets us to laughing.†   (source)
  • The thump-whoosh-thump symphony ceased.†   (source)
  • I went to operas, symphonies, pop concerts and plays.†   (source)
  • One writes a great poem, a great symphony, one does something special for the sake of humanity because one is angry at the injustice that one witnesses.†   (source)
  • She orchestrates each remainder of a previous dinner into the dinner to come, making every meal like every meal, an unfinished symphony.†   (source)
  • And her marriage to Edmund, who played bass drum for the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, gave me faith that there was still some hope for the institution.†   (source)
  • They'd done it to Allison Birch when her eczema got so bad nobody would sit near her at the lunch table, and poor Scooter Richman because he played the worst trombone in the history of the Jackson Symphony Orchestra.†   (source)
  • The sounds—good-natured yelling, screams, the throb of a boom box, the clang of a basketball rattling the metal rim, the squeal of tires—were a symphony.†   (source)
  • Although not necessarily symmetrical, every object, every carving, every flower, and every path was in exactly the right location, like a perfectly executed symphony.†   (source)
  • I remembered I had wanted to listen to a Tchaikovsky symphony on Sunday night, the night of the ball game which I had been so certain we would win.†   (source)
  • Then the orchestra played excerpts from Dvorak's New World Symphony and I kept hearing "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" resounding through its dominant theme-my mother's and grandfather's favorite spiritual.†   (source)
  • Tía Alicia took her to museums and the symphony and the ancient ceiba tree.†   (source)
  • We adore the symphony.†   (source)
  • Once, Miss Boon had remarked—with a tinge of professional envy—that David's talents were like a composer simply improvising an entire symphony.†   (source)
  • He was a composer who wrote old-fashioned scores for motion pictures, and modern symphonies for sparse audiences.†   (source)
  • Second movement, Beethoven's 7th Symphony).†   (source)
  • I believe that the wonder of discovery can lift the spirit like Brahms's Third Symphony.†   (source)
  • From the fullness of the clouds, the arc of a swallow, and the sparkling of the sun upon a shattered river, came sonatas, symphonies, and songs.†   (source)
  • Well, then, did she meet you at the Evanston symphony concert?†   (source)
  • I want to be surrounded by them, and so I clip out some of the best lines and the very best words— like "symphony,"†   (source)
  • A symphony of fruit was there for the sampling, exotic hybrids that sprinkled harmonized flavors on the tongue.†   (source)
  • He climbed swiftly, silently, stopping as before with every screech of a bird, every flutter of wings, each abrupt cessation of the cricket symphony.†   (source)
  • To this symphony of bathroom sounds Natalie added the thunderous flush of an industrial toilet.†   (source)
  • Incidentally we've got a very fine symphony orchestra-probably among the world's half-dozen best.†   (source)
  • He claimed to have once cured a case of hysterical blindness with his number 37, the "Fu-Manchu" (many of the faces having like German symphonies both a number and nickname), which involved slanting the eyes up with the index fingers, enlarging the nostrils with the middle fingers, pulling the mouth wide with the pinkies and protruding the tongue.†   (source)
  • Later she played over and over on the phonograph the final movement of that First Symphony of Brahms which he so big-heartedly had allowed her to keep.†   (source)
  • Theaters and symphony orchestras sprout overnight.†   (source)
  • I challenge the arts majors in this audience to compose the great American symphony, to write the great American novel, and to enrich and inspire our daily lives.†   (source)
  • Merely the part worth reading: E. K. Hornbeck's Brilliant little symphony of words.†   (source)
  • I had never been exposed to art, nor attended a concert, nor listened to a symphony even on records.†   (source)
  • As soon as I said this, Tim suddenly and with the timing of an experienced ham, let loose with Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.†   (source)
  • And the same for the building of great palaces, or the writing of symphonies, the amassing of wealth.†   (source)
  • Listening is an art to be cultivated; and the symphonies of the desert or the forest demand a finer ear than do the symphonies of the composers.†   (source)
  • That's why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, that's why they write symphonies.†   (source)
  • He patted her shoulder; they must have been thinking it together: his failure to respect music was part of the past, a night with little Fan at the Symphony, her treat.†   (source)
  • The voicing of their joy was a symphony to Mack's ears, and as he watched, his tears flowed freely.†   (source)
  • Coalwood's industrial symphony is forever stilled.†   (source)
  • I listened to the symphony of birds and bugs.†   (source)
  • She appears to be conducting a symphony.†   (source)
  • I would be happy, too, if I was going to play the Third Symphony, especially with good players.†   (source)
  • Like a recurring theme in some demonic symphony, the suffocating darkness had returned.†   (source)
  • I expect a symphony of wild things once spring arrives.†   (source)
  • A symphony of emotions played across her face in an instant—surprise, joy, confusion, and fear.†   (source)
  • "You know," I tell him, "I've got tickets to see the National Symphony later this month.†   (source)
  • It was Coalwood moving, talking, humming its eternal symphony of life, work, duty, and job.†   (source)
  • "Symphony Number Three in E—Flat Major," he said, practically making the sign of the cross.†   (source)
  • When I shut the door and turn the key, I get a symphony.†   (source)
  • By the way, I said, they'll be working on Beethoven's Third Symphony.†   (source)
  • You could go to the symphony, or to museums, or just stroll around in the Commons.†   (source)
  • We are surrounded by a symphony of crickets and frogs.†   (source)
  • A symphony of breathing, hearty, steady, frail.†   (source)
  • Great mauls rose and fell in a jolting symphony of sparks.†   (source)
  • He was whistling the theme of the symphony.†   (source)
  • You expect me to live without a symphony?†   (source)
  • It was like my father's first symphony orchestra.†   (source)
  • The fact that there are now women playing for symphony orchestras is not a trivial change.†   (source)
  • The only symphony with which he has ever become familiar.†   (source)
  • And it was quiet and peaceful, a soft symphony of crashing waves and distant gulls.†   (source)
  • Once we did it in a parterre box at the symphony.†   (source)
  • She had never heard that symphony before, but she knew that it was written by Richard Halley.†   (source)
  • In Washington, D.C., the National Symphony Orchestra hired Sylvia Alimena to play the French horn.†   (source)
  • "Because, salah, in those villages there's no symphony!†   (source)
  • On Mondays, a night off for the symphony, Edmund always cooked.†   (source)
  • They were the sounds of a symphony concert being given somewhere in the city.†   (source)
  • This-she thought, listening to the symphony— had been the goal of his struggle.†   (source)
  • I played first horn for seven years with the Dallas Symphony.†   (source)
  • A Beethoven symphony would cost me a good hunk of what I used to call a week's pay."†   (source)
  • I thought that the last time I hear that symphony was in Cracow when I was a very young girl.†   (source)
  • Her husband, George, was a violinist with the San Francisco Symphony, quiet but happy to take the lead whenever Sally fed him a line.†   (source)
  • As if to accentuate the collegiate atmosphere, two longhaired hippies hurled a Frisbee back and forth while enjoying Mahler's Fourth Symphony blaring from a dorm window.†   (source)
  • The exchange rates — one Mona Lisa equalled Bergen-Belsen, one Armenian genocide equalled the Ninth Symphony plus three Great Pyramids — were suggested, but there was room for haggling.†   (source)
  • She's a member of the Rotary Club and has been married twice—for many years to a lawyer, and now to a dentist who is on the symphony board.†   (source)
  • A symphony of grinding, a chorus of popping, an aria of exploding, and finally, the sad clapping of hard metal cutting into soft trees.†   (source)
  • But you know how romantic the Moonlight Sonata is, and you can hear how dramatically Beethoven expresses himself in the Fifth Symphony.†   (source)
  • On Saturday afternoons, he took her on outings—to matinees, to free public rehearsals of the symphony, for strolls through the arboretum.†   (source)
  • Even Candy became really involved, as a first violinist in the Nedlands Symphony and a vocalist in a professional group.†   (source)
  • "Teenagers—well I won't even go into the torture of that, watching them head off to conservatory or to Mexico City for the summer to play in the symphony.†   (source)
  • She recited, with her eyes closed: Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me, That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome! those caves of ice!†   (source)
  • I knew the words and melodies of hundreds of songs—a symphony exploding inside my head with no one to hear it but me.†   (source)
  • PHI appeared in the organizational structures of Mozart's sonatas, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, as well as the works of Bartók, Debussy, and Schubert.†   (source)
  • *It came as no surprise to me that during her senior year with the Yak Symphony Orchestra, Candy performed in the European premier of the modern opera Mass by the gifted Leonard Bernstein.†   (source)
  • So I don't know whether to wear date clothes or symphony clothes—do people here even dress up for that kind of thing?†   (source)
  • Sister of deceased industrialist Richard Griffen and sister-in law of the eminent novelist Laura Chase, Mrs. Prior served on the board of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra during its formative years, and more recently on the Volunteer Committee of the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Canadian Cancer Society.†   (source)
  • It's the summer's end symphony.†   (source)
  • I was even more amazed when I learned that she played violin in the Yale Symphony and Bach Society— not a position for just anybody who could play an instrument.†   (source)
  • Besides that, Ward frequently invited me to go with his family to various concerts and symphonies, and he introduced me to a lot of the cultural interests around Detroit that I wouldn't have had the opportunity to attend because of my lack of finances.†   (source)
  • Of course, Adam would choose to dress up for the symphony and a 1960s sharkskin suit could've just been his cool take on formal, but I knew there was more to it than that.†   (source)
  • It's part of the Symphony.†   (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)
  • The Finnish composer's Second Symphony, more than a hundred years old, has swept up Mr. Ayers and carried him back to his youth.†   (source)
  • At the end of the Eighth Symphony, a single patron has been stirred to a level of uncontrollable passion.†   (source)
  • He called his symphony Eroica, which means heroic, and intended it as a tribute to courage rather than to a single man.†   (source)
  • He plays now against a backdrop of sea and sky, a symphony under the trees, right here where impossible wealth meets hopeless suffering.†   (source)
  • He taught at two universities and joined the Pittsburgh Symphony in 1969 and the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1973, but music is only one of his pursuits.†   (source)
  • He wanted a disheveled Beethoven lost in thought as he conceived the Ninth Symphony while walking through the woods, hands behind his back holding hat and cane.†   (source)
  • He narrates the entire forty-minute symphony, fingering an imaginary bass at the start of the fourth movement, a suspenseful rhythm-driven march that creeps along hauntingly and then breaks into a full run, the entire orchestra joining the parade.†   (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)
  • You look over at the next player and say, 'Wow— Napoleon Bonaparte was the original inspiration for Beethoven's Third Symphony, but as legend has it, the composer's opinion of the man changed when he saw the liberator become a tyrant.†   (source)
  • …from downtown, was home to Case Western Reserve University, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Cleveland Institute of Music and the jewel of the neighborhood—Severance Hall The Georgian-style home of the Cleveland Orchestra—financed by John Long Severance, the son of John D. Rockefeller's treasurer—was hailed as an architectural triumph and had hosted its first concert in 1931, with conductor Nikolai Sokoloff leading a program that included Bach's Passacaglia and Brahms's First Symphony.†   (source)
  • Less than a month later, we return to see the Philharmonic perform Beethoven's Fifth and Eighth Symphonies.†   (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)
  • They took me to the symphony, art shows, academic conferences, committee meetings, where I was expected to be seen and not heard.†   (source)
  • A symphony of sounds greeted them as they made their way through the tunnel-like arch of interlaced trees.†   (source)
  • The ceiling was the deep blue of a summer storm, the wallpaper a symphony of stripes in cornflower and ochre.†   (source)
  • Brother Leon was nodding his head, as if listening to a beautiful symphony, as if lovely sounds filled the air.†   (source)
  • He was the conductor of the Prague Philharmonic at twentyfour, and now he's the artistic director for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and runs that very same program in Venezuela that gave him his start.†   (source)
  • This dress is black, because black is the best thing for such occasions: a simple, sober black dress, like those of the women who play cellos in symphony orchestras.†   (source)
  • As the chorus of "aye" went around the room in a terrible symphony, the gleam made Emma think of the shine of a distress signal far out at sea, where no one could see it, where there was no one to care.†   (source)
  • Downstairs, he could hear his father putting away pots and pans from the dishwasher, like some techno-symphony.†   (source)
  • Sitting with my feet on the soiled canvas I felt as though I had wandered into the percussion section of a symphony orchestra.†   (source)
  • How, even stuck in some sort of subconscious limbo, it works your lungs, your muscle twitches, your heart' in fact, in symphony with your heart, allowing it to feel love.†   (source)
  • In one of his favorite theatrical fantasies, his stage name was Perry O'Parsons, a star who billed himself as "The One-Man Symphony.†   (source)
  • We go to the zoo at Stanley Park and sit on the grass by the dome of the outdoor theater, listening to the symphony concerts in the dusk.†   (source)
  • The overhanging branches and surrounding trees was a symphony of chirrups and squawks and the patter of little feet scurrying through the underbrush.†   (source)
  • She saw the smoke from Eric's cigarette curling up from the mantelpiece—she hoped it was still in the ashtray; the play script was beneath her head, the symphony was approaching its end.†   (source)
  • She turned around, walking into the diner, the sounds muffled but still noticeable—a symphony of plates clanking and people talking; directly ahead was the hostess stand, where a man was asking for a table.†   (source)
  • Where my fingers trail, the flowers burst into a symphony of color unlike anything I have ever seen—deep reds, fiery pinks, creamy white, and yellows as bright as summer sun.†   (source)
  • During lunch a boy of sixteen or seventeen too overstimulated to eat with his family went onto the verandah and played the second movement of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony over and over again.†   (source)
  • As though he were a symphony orchestrated by a million instruments, and a single note threw him from his feet with its power.†   (source)
  • The hum of the woods was pervasive; the crickets clicked their incessant symphony, a lone owl hooted to be answered by another, and small ferret-like creatures scampered through the underbrush.†   (source)
  • Here we are cried Alec, and, with a sweep of his arm, he pointed toward an enormous symphony orchestra.†   (source)
  • Again shafts of light played a dramatic symphony of colour, pockets of darkness pierced by intersecting beams that washed over the brilliant yellows and reds and blues of the banks of flowers.†   (source)
  • I wanted to call him, but the Fifth Symphony rhythm racked me, and he seemed too serene and too far away.†   (source)
  • The electricity rose up his spine and he trembled not from shock but because, over the sound of the guns, he was still able to hear sonatas, symphonies, and songs.†   (source)
  • A Colorful Symphony†   (source)
  • That particular symphony does make him think of Europe, although not London specifically, just all the places they have been.†   (source)
  • He flips idly through a stack of record albums on the stereo; pulls out "A London Symphony," by Vaughan Williams.†   (source)
  • It did not have to be an orrery or a tower clock any more than a yodeler has to sing in symphonies, and this friendliness to restriction had left the designers within easy reach of perfection.†   (source)
  • Combine this with Marinetti's campaign against spaghetti, De Felices wish that every child be taught to slaughter animals, and the various odes and symphonies to coal, drill presses, daggers, and stick pins, and you have a school.†   (source)
  • She did not know whether she was hearing a full symphony orchestra or only the theme; perhaps she was hearing the orchestration in her own mind.†   (source)
  • She listened to the symphony, thinking: This is why the wheels have to be kept going, and this is where they're going.†   (source)
  • In the room behind her, the sounds of a symphony of her grandfather's time were coming from the radio.†   (source)
  • "Ladies and gentlemen," said the panic-pregnant voice of a radio announcer, breaking off the chords of the symphony, "we interrupt this broadcast to bring you a special news bulletin.†   (source)
  • Why not a new symphony or opera?†   (source)
  • She hunted for symphony concerts and twisted the dial rapidly past whenever she caught the raucous syllables of a news broadcast; she did not want any news from the city.†   (source)
  • It was a symphony of triumph.†   (source)
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