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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

  • The music it makes, the staccatos and sforzandi and delirious swings of tempo and motif!

    Men.Style.com: Latest Features and Articles 2010

  • The music it makes, the staccatos and sforzandi and delirious swings of tempo and motif!

    Men.Style.com: Latest Features and Articles 2010

  • The music it makes, the staccatos and sforzandi and delirious swings of tempo and motif!

    Men.Style.com: Latest Features and Articles 2010

  • 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

  • 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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