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  • Yet the overall harmonies flow so expressively because the little deviations — the viola's minor ninths giving way to the first violin's major ninths, the cello's extroverted cadenza versus the first violin's equally dazzling, but inward one — the little differences seem to be always on the verge of coming together.

    Magna Carter (6): This Is Your Life Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • Yet the overall harmonies flow so expressively because the little deviations — the viola's minor ninths giving way to the first violin's major ninths, the cello's extroverted cadenza versus the first violin's equally dazzling, but inward one — the little differences seem to be always on the verge of coming together.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • Maybe this was some sort of statement about the viola's emerging voice from a larger cacophony but the somber ending of the piece would seem to belie this.

    Archive 2006-10-01 2006

  • Maybe this was some sort of statement about the viola's emerging voice from a larger cacophony but the somber ending of the piece would seem to belie this.

    Dean (and more Dean) 2006

  • However, it was hard to ignore what seemed like an internalized stereotype about the viola's role within the larger context of the orchestra.

    Dean (and more Dean) 2006

  • However, it was hard to ignore what seemed like an internalized stereotype about the viola's role within the larger context of the orchestra.

    Archive 2006-10-01 2006

  • Thanks for the information on Donna viola's email address.

    The Kansas Evolution Election: Who's Who & how you can help Diane Silver 2006

  • John McEwen's Viola Concerto is a warm-hearted piece played with commitment by Power, while the two works by Vaughan Williams bring out the viola's tender melancholy.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Geoffrey Norris 2011

  • The viola's loss is the trumpet's gain - although jazz trumpeter Terell Stafford can't recommend his particular path to music.

    Berks county news 2010

  • It is one of Feldman's more tonal, and therefore more easily accessible, works, and it plays off the Catholic setting of the chapel in its use of antiphonal choirs, forming clusters of notes or trading wordless motifs, with a viola's solo lines and touches of celesta and percussion filling the gaps.

    Ionarts Charles T. Downey 2010

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