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Recitals were missed so that we would be prepared and ready to go this last week of trial.

From Fox News • Mar. 11, 2022

Colburn Celebrity Recitals The Calder Quartet and guest musicians play pieces by Schubert and Schoenberg, plus the world premiere of Christopher Cerrone’s “Can’t and Won’t.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2017

His death, of congestive heart failure, was confirmed by John Gerlach, a friend and the director of the Tri-Institutional Noon Recitals series at Rockefeller University.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2014

Recitals of chamber music are usually serious functions, attended by serious souls, with cultured dignity at heart.

From Time Magazine Archive

Recitals were almost as distasteful as Chapter meetings or "At Homes" to his mind.

From Cap'n Dan's Daughter by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby