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  • It allowed him a showcase for more of that lovely sound, sweeping over Stott's "Erlkönig" - like opening of the second movement, echoing the darkness of the Gershwin Prelude No. 2 he played at the start, as the piano later echoed Mariano's "Cristal."

    Music review: Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Kathryn Stott at the Kennedy Center Anne Midgette 2010

  • Sort of, because as you allude to, R. Giskard Reventlov destroys himself irradiating Earth to force us to leave, and R. Daneel Olivaw spends the next ~20,500 years keeping a watchful eye over us, gently bending things here and there (as seen in Prelude to Foundation with the beginnings of Psychohistory) to steer humans in the most beneficial overall direction.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Rise of the Machines 2009

  • This sublime inner sense was later to be identified, particularly among the German Romantics, with such paranormal phenomena as "second sight" (which Wordsworth invokes in Prelude 7.602 to describe his impression of the passing London crowds), lucid dreams, and trance-induced, supernatural revelations (Tatar, 69-81).

    Re-collecting Spontaneous Overflows 1998

  • Wordsworth began writing the autobiographical poem that would absorb him intermittently for the next 40 years, and which was eventually published in 1850 under the title The Prelude, or,

    Screencast - Myscreencast.com - Find and share screencasts 2010

  • Longtime Alvin Ailey dancers Clifton Brown and Linda Celeste Sims performed a one-night-only duet called "Prelude to a Kiss," in which Mr. Brown peels down the top of Ms. Sims's dress, her back turned to the audience.

    A Song and Dance to Celebrate Alvin Ailey 2011

  • The Prelude, that is, always and already pre-visionary as well as provisional by title, takes as its true subject "something ever more about 'to be.'"

    Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008

  • The Prelude, which is a history of his own young life, he tells of these happy childish hours.

    English Literature for Boys and Girls

  • To this great work The Prelude was to be the introduction, hence its name.

    English Literature for Boys and Girls

  • The Prelude is a condensed picture of the entire drama.

    Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama George Ainslie Hight

  • Entitled Prelude To Drive, the EP is riddled with impressive guest artists.

    RVABlogs 2009

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