- Conducting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Concerto Quotes
A form that still commands attention.
One musician keeps returning to a favorite Tchaikovsky violin piece on repeat; another compares Beethoven's triple concerto, right after Wagner, to an Alka Seltzer. These quotes take the concerto seriously without losing its humor, alongside our Beautiful quotes.
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- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
I usually listen to the same thing over and over again: Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major. And Leonard Cohen.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the reading in the world cannot immunize you from the devastating effects of psychopaths. Everyone, including the experts, can be taken in, conned, and left bewildered by them. A good psychopath can play a concerto on anyone's heart strings.
- Evening
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- Nov 07, 2020
At a grand evening service in a church, my concerto created such a furor that the worshippers rushed out to keep the crowd outside the church quiet.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the name 'Stella McCartney.' It's a beautiful name the way it rolls off the tongue. A couple of years ago, I wrote a cello concerto and used that as the basis for the rhythmic and melodic structure of the main motif of the cello part.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.
- Equal
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- Nov 07, 2020
This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one has ever pretended to equal.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Concert pianists are really afraid to try out the Beethoven Fourth Concerto if the Third happens to be their specialty. That's the piece they had such success with on Long Island, by George, and it will surely bring them success in Connecticut. So first there's tremendous conservatism. And then stagnation sets in. Or it certainly did in me.
- Piano
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have two favorites: Reading Kierkegaard while listening to Mozart's Piano Concerto 9 in E Flat Major, and reading early Bazooka Joe comics in Hebrew.
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- Nov 07, 2020