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Such was the case in the second movement, Andante cantabile, con alcuna licenza, in which Tchaikovsky relies upon the French horn to introduce one of the composer's most effusively passionate statements, played with a slightly wavering but rosy tone by French horn James Bergman '99. All following events build upon the foundation established by the horn solo; Tchaikovsky's theme expanded into an outpouring of heroic proportions when taken into the hands of the violins...

Author: By Andrea H. Kurtz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dazzling HRO Mixes Old and New Classical | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

...greatest observer of the real world in his time, and the breadth of his inquiries would be inconceivable in ours; but this is the same Leonardo who, on cutting a pen, scribbled as his customary test sentence some variant on the melancholy words, "Dimmi, dimmi se maifufatta cosa alcuna "- "Tell me, tell me if anything ever got done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Empirical Queen of the Sciences | 10/14/1974 | See Source »

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