cadenzas

The cadenzas are the pieces in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major" meant to be improvised by the musicians playing the concerto.

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And while these cadenzas never quite reach the level of all-out improvisation, they do allow for the ensemble members to show off their own take on an interesting work.

To Each His Own 2009

Since the 1980s, when he developed the practice in a series of concerts with the Academy of Ancient Music, Mr. Levin has been one of the few pianists to improvise cadenzas and embellishments in the style of a given composer.

The Classical Improviser 2010

He backed this up with some over-heated cadenzas about "massive worldwide migration" and "the cognitive friction of juxtaposition".

How Mark Twain, a long-dead American, is set to revive the global voice of Granta 2010

While the practice itself is authentic — cadenzas were built into concerto movements specifically to show off the virtuosity and improvising skills of a performer — the reality of a modern-day pianist "adding notes of his own" still has the power to offend purists.

The Classical Improviser 2010

When the orchestra stops before one of his improvised cadenzas, he says, you can hear the intensity with which people listen.

The Classical Improviser 2010

David Foster Wallace often writes the way I imagine that billionth monkey would: in mad cadenzas of simian gibberish that break suddenly into glorious soliloquies, then plunge again into nonsense.

David Foster Wallace Thought Readers Are Smart And Tolstoy Was His Role Model 2010

Those who quiver with the radical impulse can easily be tempted to hear Wagnerian cadenzas and behold the invisible visions of future utopias.

The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

David Foster Wallace often writes the way I imagine that billionth monkey would: in mad cadenzas of simian gibberish that break suddenly into glorious soliloquies, then plunge again into nonsense.

David Foster Wallace Thought Readers Are Smart And Tolstoy Was His Role Model 2010

Those who quiver with the radical impulse can easily be tempted to hear Wagnerian cadenzas and behold the invisible visions of future utopias.

The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010