"Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if……" — Garrison Keillor

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• A review of his work: His music soon spread throughout Europe, and he was invited to America were he performed… — Unknown Author
• Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no… — Unknown Author
• It was Vivaldi's Mandolin Concerto, Francesca Abraham realized as the radio alarm went off. Lively, unrelentingly upbeat, it was the… — Naomi Ragen
• The virtuoso element in jazz playing, all those very fast runs in the upper extremes, simply doesn't appeal to me.… — 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… — Robert Greenberg
• Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to… — Eduard Hanslick
• It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved. Not the horror of performing on the piano in front… — 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… — Douglas Adams
• Inspiration and ideas only come to me when I have not had a woman in a very long time... Ballads,… — Claude Debussy
• When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You… — Itzhak Perlman

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