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- The Count had no doubt that Rachmaninov's Second was well within Sofia's grasp; but even Horowitz had his Tarnowsky.† (source)
- The Hegemony Consul sat on the balcony of his ebony spaceship and played Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C-sharp Minor on an ancient but well-maintained Steinway while great, green, saurian things surged and bellowed in the swamps below.† (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)
- 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)
- At the end of the party, he would lie on the cushioned bench, close his eyes, and sigh, grateful for the food, Rachmaninoff, his son, his daughter-in-law, his dear old friends.† (source)
- The problem was no longer technical, even though this was the most technically difficult operation anyone could perform, the equivalent of a pianist playing Rachmaninoff 's "Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini," except that one dare not miss a note or fluff a phrase.† (source)
- He stocked it with her music workbooks and sheaves of invigorating Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, and a selection of Chopin.† (source)
- Can you play Rachmaninoff?† (source)
- Rachmaninoff is tough stuff, but he likes a challenge.† (source)
- Rachmaninoff described his music as coming from his heart rather than his head.
- But after months of preparation, Sofia will be performing Rachmaninov at the Palais Gamier.† (source)
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- And as we savored our treats, we listened to a song by Rachmaninoff called "Oriental Dance."† (source)
- Yesterday afternoon, when we received the news, I made so much of it: The chance to play Rachmaninov before an audience of thousands in the Palais Gamier!† (source)
- In April we are sending the ballet to New York; in May we are sending a dramatic ensemble to London; and in June we are sending the orchestra of the Moscow Conservatory to Minsk, Prague, and Paris—where Sofia will be performing Rachmaninov at the Palais Gamier.† (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)
- 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)
- ...Listen to WLX tonight, at eight, they'll have your pet—Rachmaninoff's Second Concerto.... Of course I have time to keep informed about everything.... Oh, all right, I see one can't fool an ex-newspaper woman, I did go over the radio page.... Of course we have plenty of help, it's just that I can't quite trust some of the new boys and I had a moment to spare.... Above all, don't come to town.† (source)
- It was a humble wife who followed the busy doctor out to the carriage, and her ambition was not to play Rachmaninoff better, nor to build town halls, but to chuckle at babies.† (source)
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