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Tchaikovsky
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  • 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)
  • For example, many important people throughout history were considered different, such as Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Harriet Tubman, Peter Tchaikovsky, and Abraham Lincoln.†   (source)
  • He stocked it with her music workbooks and sheaves of invigorating Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, and a selection of Chopin.†   (source)
  • Today it was Tchaikovsky.†   (source)
  • "You can't have a father-daughter dance to Tchaikovsky," I say.†   (source)
  • Tchaikovsky is easy.†   (source)
  • It gave an incredible feeling to put the needle down, to hear Tchaikovsky swell into the room, then watch the hands shoot up, or to hear voices excitedly identify the piece without bothering with the raised-hand crap.†   (source)
  • There was to be a first performance of a violin sonata by a young composer, a pupil of Taneiev's, and a trio by Tchaikovsky.†   (source)
  • Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite is a often heard in during the Christmas season.
  • And but for Tchaikovsky, it would have remained in Prussia.†   (source)
  • And that is why Tchaikovsky seems to have captured the sound of it better than anyone else.†   (source)
  • Two pieces by Tchaikovsky, two by Rimsky-Korsakov, and something by Borodin.†   (source)
  • One hundred and twenty-five years after Tchaikovsky created this music, Nathaniel has given it to me, making it new again.†   (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 was trying to remember a Tchaikovsky piece he once knew quite well, but now it is as elusive as the meaning of a dream.†   (source)
  • I want to see the apartment building where he played Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings while looking out the window at the falling snow.†   (source)
  • For if the Tolstoy dropped him in a barrel, and the Tchaikovsky set him adrift, then the caviar sent him over the falls.†   (source)
  • I wonder how safe it can be for a man trying to reconnect with Tchaikovsky as drug dealers, prostitutes and hustlers work streets teeming with the lame and the afflicted.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • No. They play Bach and Beethoven, Rossini and Puccini, while at Carnegie Hall the audience responds to Horowitz's performance of Tchaikovsky with thunderous applause."†   (source)
  • I borrowed your observation that Tolstoy and Chekhov were the bookends of narrative, invoked Tchaikovsky, and then ordered the brute a serving of caviar.†   (source)
  • A two-hundred-foot structure of spiraling steel from which we can broadcast the latest news and intelligence—and, yes, the sentimental strains of your Tchaikovsky—into the home of every citizen within a hundred miles.†   (source)
  • And with no destination in mind, I crossed the Moika and Fontanka Canals, I passed the shops, and the rose-hued facades of the grand old homes until, at last, I reached Tikhvin Cemetery, where the bodies of Dostoevsky and Tchaikovsky slumber a few feet apart.†   (source)
  • I tell you that not only will every European child of the twentieth century know the melodies of The Nutcracker, they will imagine their Christmas just as it is depicted in the ballet; and on the Christmas Eves of their dotage, Tchaikovsky's tree will grow from the floor of their memories until they are gazing up in wonder once again."†   (source)
  • "Start with Tchaikovsky," he pleaded.†   (source)
  • Everybody likes Tchaikovsky.†   (source)
  • ' For Rudolph Valentino, 'Orientale,' Cesar Cui, Tchaikovsky's 'Sehnsucht.†   (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)
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