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From literary giants like Allen Ginsberg, Ernest Hemingway, and Walt Whitman, to business visionaries like Andrew Carnegie to the entirety of the Impressionistic Art movement.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: To Beard or Not to Beard, That Is the Question: Musings on the Fall of Matisyahu's Facial Locks and Other Natural Disasters Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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From literary giants like Allen Ginsberg, Ernest Hemingway, and Walt Whitman, to business visionaries like Andrew Carnegie to the entirety of the Impressionistic Art movement.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: To Beard or Not to Beard, That Is the Question: Musings on the Fall of Matisyahu's Facial Locks and Other Natural Disasters Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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The first movement's Impressionistic landscape featured a piquant, upward soaring melody with a series of falling thirds from a protagonist oboe, flitting above a feather-bed of sustained string harmonies and bass piano, and punctuated with a walking-like figuration in the piano's treble register, all becoming more urgent toward its close.
Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades Rodney Punt 2010
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But the mini-retrospective also includes Mr. Boxer's strong, washy, Cubist "Bathers" (1947); the Impressionistic "Still Life" (1951), resembling a Claude Monet landscape; the gorgeous, enigmatic Cubist-derived abstraction "Interior Still Life With A Red" (1960); and the biomorphic "Willowsnowpond" (1972), which fuses sky, water, flora and snake.
Playing With Sand, Wind and Fire Lance Esplund 2011
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The first movement's Impressionistic landscape featured a piquant, upward soaring melody with a series of falling thirds from a protagonist oboe, flitting above a feather-bed of sustained string harmonies and bass piano, and punctuated with a walking-like figuration in the piano's treble register, all becoming more urgent toward its close.
Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades Rodney Punt 2010
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The first movement's Impressionistic landscape featured a piquant, upward soaring melody with a series of falling thirds from a protagonist oboe, flitting above a feather-bed of sustained string harmonies and bass piano, and punctuated with a walking-like figuration in the piano's treble register, all becoming more urgent toward its close.
Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades Rodney Punt 2010
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The first movement's Impressionistic landscape featured a piquant, upward soaring melody with a series of falling thirds from a protagonist oboe, flitting above a feather-bed of sustained string harmonies and bass piano, and punctuated with a walking-like figuration in the piano's treble register, all becoming more urgent toward its close.
Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades Rodney Punt 2010
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Impressionistic and impulsive they may be, but I think they positively demand a special setting.
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The first movement's Impressionistic landscape featured a piquant, upward soaring melody with a series of falling thirds from a protagonist oboe, flitting above a feather-bed of sustained string harmonies and bass piano, and punctuated with a walking-like figuration in the piano's treble register, all becoming more urgent toward its close.
Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades Rodney Punt 2010
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The first movement's Impressionistic landscape featured a piquant, upward soaring melody with a series of falling thirds from a protagonist oboe, flitting above a feather-bed of sustained string harmonies and bass piano, and punctuated with a walking-like figuration in the piano's treble register, all becoming more urgent toward its close.
Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades Rodney Punt 2010
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