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  • Artistic Director Cynthia Word has conceived a program in which all 24 of Duncan's "Preludes" -- solos that she choreographed to short piano works by Chopin -- will be performed in one evening for the first time ever.

    Word Dance Theater performs "Preludes: Duncan, Sand & Chopin" at Shakepeare 2010

  • Here the orchestra commenced Liszt's "Preludes" -- and all conversation ceased.

    Ardath Marie Corelli 1889

  • My biggest concern about the book though is something that’s pretty easy to ignore in Preludes, but has an overshadowing effect on my anticipation of future volumes.

    Gorillas Riding Dinosaurs: Charlatan and the Jinjurverse | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • I think the first one is called Preludes and Nocturnes (they're all on Amazon, under Sandman).

    readersguide Diary Entry readersguide 2003

  • Rubinstein to assert that the Preludes were the pearls of his works.

    Chopin : the Man and His Music James Huneker 1890

  • That the Preludes are a sheaf of moods, loosely held together by the rather vague title, is demonstrated by the third, in the key of G.

    Chopin : the Man and His Music James Huneker 1890

  • Now all this is quite different, and with my "Preludes," for instance

    Letters Liszt, Franz 1893

  • "Preludes" had to be repeated (as they were in Pest).

    Letters Liszt, Franz 1893

  • To Schuberth I have sent the corrections of the 2-pianoforte arrangement of the "Faust Symphony," together with a pretty, tuneful arrangement of the "Preludes" by Herr Klauser (of New York), and was thus induced to play the hackneyed piece through again, to touch up the closing movement and give it new figuration.

    Letters Liszt, Franz 1893

  • How many excuses I owe you, my dear lady and kind friend, for all the trouble and disagreeables that the "Preludes" have occasioned you!

    Letters Liszt, Franz 1893

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