Skip to content

Books Quote by Donal Henahan

“When her name is mentioned in the opera history books we will recall that vibrant, soaring tone-that and the blinding, high-beam-headlight smile that she flashed on her fans at each curtain call.” quote by Donal Henahan — Download Open image

“When her name is mentioned in the opera history books we will recall that vibrant, soaring tone-that and the blinding, high-beam-headlight smile that she flashed on her fans at each curtain call.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings)

Books Curtain call History History books

More by Donal Henahan

Miss Petrowska,an excellent pianist, held the audience transfixed with Chou Wen-chung’s work. Miss Petrowska was coolness itself in getting the hardware into the piano…

Image

The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.

Image

Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors.

Image

It will never be mistaken for a high school gymnasium or a meeting room in a Midwestern motel.

Image

On the subject of wild mushrooms, it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is not: The expert is the one…

Image

[Rubinstein was] a fountain from which music spouted, not a recitalist.

Image

It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern…

Image

Pianists of extraordinary talent, such as Christina Petrowska,spend a large part of their early lives perfecting technique…Miss Petrowska,a Canadian with a phenomenal ability to play the most difficult music cleanly, gave a demonstration of her achievements at Carnegie Recital Hall. A product of the Juilliard School who studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Gyorgy Ligeti in Europe, Miss Petrowska built most…

Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.

Image

The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads…

Image

The more disastrous the mishaps the simpler the reviewing task.

Image

Explore all 12 Donal Henahan quotes

More Books quotes

I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not…

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Image

If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

Image

If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

Image

My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that…

Karen Thompson Walker

Image

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

Image

“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

Image

The Rosary is the book of the blind.

Fulton J. Sheen

Image

“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

Christopher K. Krebs

Image

“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

Louisa May Alcott

Image

Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

Image

I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

Image

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

Image

Browse all 59,475 Books quotes