repertory

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Culled from both Pye recordings (Faure, Ravel) and live concert and radio broadcasts, this fine recital offers the Rumanian virtuoso Mindru Katz (1925-1978) in French repertory, an opportunity to hear his exquisite, colorist sense applied to music that defies the heavy foot.

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  1. noun A repertoire.
  2. noun A theater in which a resident company presents works from a specified repertoire, usually in alternation.
  3. noun A repertory company.
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  • The work of another novelist has been called a repertory of human documents. —  George Sand, Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings
  • After exhausting all the attractive baits of their repertory, the managers, finding all their attractions fail, vainly formed a congress to relieve them from such a disastrous situation. —  Memoirs of Robert-Houdin
  • Besides, his repertory was out of date, and could not contend against the new tricks I was about to offer. —  Memoirs of Robert-Houdin
  • They performed in repertory, rehearsing new plays by day while performing at night. —  Le Monde diplomatique - English edition
  • Repertory dance company auditions for boys and girls ages 5 and up will be held June 13 for pre-repertory, junior repertory and senior repertory dance teams For more information call (479) 715-6840 or visit the Web site www. infinitiathletics.com.
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  1. Late Latin repertōrium, from Latin repertus, past participle of reperīre, to find out : re-, re- + parīre, to get, beget; see perə-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Old French *repertorie, later repertoire, French répertoire =Spanish Portuguese Italian repertorio, from Late Latin repertorium, an inventory, list, repertory, from Latin reperire, past participle repertus, find, find out, discover, invent, from re-, again, + parire, usually parere, produce: see parent.
 

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/ˈrɛpərtəri/
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