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#concerto

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I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.


Linda Lavin


#before #concerto #dream #else #forget

You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall.


Itzhak Perlman


#carnegie hall #concerto #feel #front #get

Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.


Lope de Vega


#harmony #love #love is #pure #pure love

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.


Nigel Kennedy


#brahms #concerto #different #each #even

The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.


George Shearing


#few #first #i #movement #mozart

It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.


Leila Josefowicz


#concerto #like #majority #me #nice

When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.


Itzhak Perlman


#carnegie hall #comes #concerto #done #feel

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.


John Hawkins


#degree #equal #ever #executed #firmness

In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.


Gyorgy Ligeti


#concerto #developed #higher #i #much

Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'


Alfred Schnittke


#composer #concerto #do you know #experience #first






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