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recital
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The Golden Apples
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- JUNE RECITAL.†
Story 2recital = performance
- 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.†
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- 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.†
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- 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.†
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- 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.†
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- Cassie's father always said the recital was planned that way, in all its tactics and dress.†
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- 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.†
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- 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.†
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- 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.†
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- And it could seldom be worn again; certainly not to another recital—by then an "old" dress.†
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- A recital dress was fuller and had more trimming than a Sunday dress.†
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- 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.†
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- For the recital was, after all, a ceremony.†
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- Better than school's being let out—for that presupposed examinations—or the opening political fireworks—the recital celebrated June.†
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- She called up the pictures on those little square party invitations, the brown bear in a frill and the black poodle standing on a chair to shave at a mirror...With recital night over, the sensitivity and the drive too would be over and gone.†
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- The night of the recital was always clear and hot; everyone came.†
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- 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.†
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- 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.†
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- 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.†
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- She was wearing her recital dress which made her look larger and closer-to than she looked at any other times.†
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- But recital night was Virgie's night, whatever else it was.
Story 2 *recital = a performance of music
- 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.†
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- 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.†
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- It was a terrible recital.†
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- Virgie had a sudden recollection of recital night at Miss Eckhart's—the moment when she was to be called out.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(recital) a performance such as music, dance, or a poetry readingA music recital is usually done solo or with a single accompanist. A dance recital may include many dancers.
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, recital can be used in the sense of something that was recited (said aloud), or said in detail. In law, recital has a specialized meaning that references introductory or preliminary information giving the reasons for what follows.