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Steinberg's orchestration is different, but all his melodies are familiar — as are the misconceptions underlying the sforzandi of his performance, a performance stridently unlike that of Schapiro's more tempered and fair-minded essay.
Shrinking Michelangelo Spitz, Ellen Handler 1984
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The music it makes, the staccatos and sforzandi and delirious swings of tempo and motif!
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The music it makes, the staccatos and sforzandi and delirious swings of tempo and motif!
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The music it makes, the staccatos and sforzandi and delirious swings of tempo and motif!
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The sforzandi crashed and the many arpeggios were fiercely played, making for a technically prodigious performance that frayed only slightly in the coda.
Ionarts 2009
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Morris often hewed close to the score for the shapes of his choreography, matching the three quarter-note motif of the F major concerto (K. 413) to three bounces by dancers throughout the first act, Eleven, giving many of the piano-only sections of music to a solo female dancer (the pixie-like Lauren Grant), and creating raised-arm gestures to correspond to sforzandi in the piano part.
DCist 2009
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