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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.
Robert D. Hare
Good
You
Heart
World
Reading
Everyone
Strings
Devastating
Taken
Bewildered
Concerto
Left
Effects
Anyone
Cannot
Experts
Them
Conned
Including
Play
I'm usually woken by a vibration on my up-band. It's the gradual vibration for about ten seconds, and then the chimes of my blue light. It's just a way to wake gently. It all gently puts me into awake-mode. I play music off of my Sonos playlist. 'The Rachmaninoff Concerto 3 in D-minor', 1st movement.
Amy Tan
Music
Me
Light
Seconds
Way
About
Ten
Puts
Concerto
Gently
Off
Wake
Gradual
Blue
Just
Movement
Vibration
Then
Play
Play Music
In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.
Gyorgy Ligeti
Complexity
Higher
Piano
Developed
Concerto
Much
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
Work
You
Trust
Try
Problems
Important
Once
Carnegie
Carnegie Hall
Out
Small
Feel
Hall
Concerto
Done
Orchestra
Little
Work Out
Play
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
You
People
Nervous
Important
Carnegie
Carnegie Hall
Some
More
Small
Feel
Hall
Concerto
Lot
Get
Front
Orchestra
Where
Place
Why
Play
When I came to the United States, I appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show as a 13-year-old, and I played a Mendelssohn Concerto, and it sounded like a talented 13-year-old with a lot of promise. But it did not sound like a finished product.
Itzhak Perlman
Finished
Sullivan
States
Promise
Finished Product
Talented
Like
Ed Sullivan
Concerto
Sound
Came
Lot
Did
Product
Show
Appeared
United
United States
Played
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
Kind
Pretended
Spirit
No-One
He
Firmness
Equal
Executed
Concerto
Itself
Which
Succeeded
Prelude
Ever
I usually listen to the same thing over and over again: Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major. And Leonard Cohen.
Sue Townsend
Same Thing
Over
Major
Concerto
Same
Listen
Again
Thing
Violin
As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
Samuel Barber
Music
Book
Own
Composer
About
My Own
Sonata
Write
Piano
Never
Written
Abstract
Self-Conscious
Feel
Concerto
Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.
Nigel Kennedy
Time
You
Slightly
Vantage
Vantage Point
Point
Concerto
Got
Beethoven
Different
Even
Each
Each Time
Playing
Edgar Meyer's violin concerto was the first piece of contemporary music I worked on in any depth. I was 18 or 19.
Hilary Hahn
Music
First
Piece
Contemporary
Contemporary Music
Edgar
Concerto
Any
Depth
Worked
Violin
It's fine with me if people want to applaud between movements of a concerto. It doesn't bother me - it's part of performance experience.
Hilary Hahn
Me
Experience
People
Fine
Bother
Part
Performance
Between
Concerto
Movements
Want
Applaud
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
First
Few
Own
Way
Piano
Part
Terminate
Concerto
Orchestra
Movement
Mozart
Works
Programme
Plays
There's a million people who can go out and play the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto brilliantly, but we're the only ones who can do 'A Little Nightmare Music.'
Aleksey Igudesman
Music
People
Out
Only
Concerto
Go
Little
Who
Play
Million
Brilliantly
Million People
Violin
Nightmare
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
Me
Nice
Attention
Like
Majority
Concerto
Orchestra
Playing
Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'
Alfred Schnittke
You
Experience
First
Composer
Do You Know
Know
Concerto
Accordion
Very
At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won.
Andre Boucourechliev
Competition
Head
Well
Concerto
Felt
Block
End
Won
Played