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  • But the same sort of thing used to be said about Mahler's multi-movement vocal-orchestral constructions "One of us is mad and it isn't me," was the critic Hanslick's comment after hearing Mahler's Second Symphony, works that are now accepted as symphonies and performed everywhere.

    Forgotten Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette 2012

  • I try for variety and often think of a multi-movement symphonic work or sonata as a model Â- you've usually got one movement that's more intellectual, one that's more simple direct, one that's fast, one that's slow, one that's in 3/4 time maybe, etc. - in other words, a variety of mood and texture.

    Joseph Vella: Interview With Brad Mehldau on the Art of Solo Piano Joseph Vella 2011

  • I try for variety and often think of a multi-movement symphonic work or sonata as a model - you've usually got one movement that's more intellectual, one that's more simple direct, one that's fast, one that's slow, one that's in 3/4 time maybe, etc. - in other words, a variety of mood and texture.

    Joseph Vella: Interview With Brad Mehldau on the Art of Solo Piano Joseph Vella 2011

  • In such a setting, on such an occasion, playing Radiohead on a set of Strads bears at least a whiff of an effort to shake up tradition - a welcome effort, and one egged on by a crowd that seemed more familiar with Radiohead and Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven," offered as an encore than multi-movement chamber works, since it greeted every movement with an enthusiastic round of applause.

    On Stradivari instruments, a chamber group rocks Radiohead Anne Midgette 2010

  • Album: Even forty years after Sgt. Pepper's, the single still rules the pop world, whereas masterpiece status in classical music still tends to accrue to large, multi-movement works.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • After "Melody of China," the Edmund Welles bass clarinet quartet played a long multi-movement work called "Agrippa's 3 Books" that was fascinating.

    Archive 2009-04-01 sfmike 2009

  • Album: Even forty years after Sgt. Pepper's, the single still rules the pop world, whereas masterpiece status in classical music still tends to accrue to large, multi-movement works.

    Indicate precisely what you're trying to say Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • After "Melody of China," the Edmund Welles bass clarinet quartet played a long multi-movement work called "Agrippa's 3 Books" that was fascinating.

    Switchboard Music Festival sfmike 2009

  • He thinks nothing of turning a simple chorale prelude into a full-fledged multi-movement dance suite ( "Auf meinen lieben Gott," BuxWV 179 — score here).

    Fame, it's not your brain, it's just the flame that burns your change Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • He thinks nothing of turning a simple chorale prelude into a full-fledged multi-movement dance suite ( "Auf meinen lieben Gott," BuxWV 179 — score here).

    Archive 2007-07-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

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