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- A review of his work: His music soon spread throughout Europe, and he was invited to America were he performed the Piano… — Unknown Author
- Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other… — Unknown Author
- It was Vivaldi's Mandolin Concerto, Francesca Abraham realized as the radio alarm went off. Lively, unrelentingly upbeat, it was the perfect tempo… — Naomi Ragen
- The virtuoso element in jazz playing, all those very fast runs in the upper extremes, simply doesn't appeal to me. That's why… — Gavin Bryars
- In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity — Gyorgy Ligeti
- When we hear a Mozart piano concerto today, we're most likely to hear the piano part played on a modern concert grand.… — Robert Greenberg
- Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear. — Eduard Hanslick
- It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved. Not the horror of performing on the piano in front of an… — Linda Lavin
- Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time. — Nigel Kennedy
- Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter,… — Douglas Adams
- Inspiration and ideas only come to me when I have not had a woman in a very long time... Ballads, polonaises, even… — Claude Debussy
- When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to… — Itzhak Perlman