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  • Playing under the shelter of an open, vaulted passageway to an intimate audience of about 50 on the terrace, Ms. Vetruccio began sedately with Chopin's "Nocturne in D-flat major," then proceeded with rising energy to Liszt's "Liebestraum No. 3" and Chopin's exhilarating "Andante spianato et grande polonaise brillante," all marked by an arresting combination of vitality and technical precision.

    Al Fresco in Rome, Pianist Valeria Vetriccio Plays Gershwin and Chopin Francis X. Rocca 2011

  • He didn't know a scale from an arpeggio but had that uncanny ability to play any song after hearing it once, even instantly transposing everything into D-flat so his bent arthritic fingers could float along the black keys without straying to unintended locations.

    Michael Sigman: Jeff Beck at 67: Perennial Guitar Hero Michael Sigman 2012

  • Even in a piece he otherwise handled poetically, the Chopin Nocturne in D-flat, the music was like a river -- in a bad way.

    In performance: Nobuyuki Tsujii 2010

  • (Post title is a direct petulantly indignant quote from Dr. Brown's "Shakespeare and Music" seminar, when, after talking for weeks about the high D-flat at the end of the mad scene in Verdi's Macbeth, the soprano on the video he showed the class chickened out and sang an A-flat instead.) posted by Matthew @ 8: 39 AM

    "Oh, she didn't hit it" Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • (Post title is a direct petulantly indignant quote from Dr. Brown's "Shakespeare and Music" seminar, when, after talking for weeks about the high D-flat at the end of the mad scene in Verdi's Macbeth, the soprano on the video he showed the class chickened out and sang an A-flat instead.) posted by Matthew @ 8: 39 AM

    Archive 2007-03-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • Michael: I nearly included something about that "Fleurs" ending — for those who don't know it, it's one of his most ethereal songs, a wash of D-flat Major pastels, almost a parody of his sensuous style — and then he ends it, out of the blue, on D-flat minor.

    Les anges musiciens Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • Since the second waltz is in the key of C-sharp minor, the "Minute" waltz contrasts by being in the enharmonic parallel major key D-flat major.

    Just a minute to start the day de Brantigny........................ 2009

  • Mr. ROBERTSON: And there's a moment where you've set down a low D-flat in the basses.

    Debussy's 'La Mer' Marks 100th Birthday 2005

  • "Tristan und Isolde" the key of D-flat, throughout "Die Meistersinger" the key of C-major, throughout "Parsifal" the key of A-flat and its relative minor.

    Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918

  • Read over the D-flat major section of “An Old Love Story.”

    Edward MacDowell Gilman, Lawrence, 1878-1939 1908

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