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Lightly used Preludes provided the canvas upon which a generation of street-performance masterpieces were painted just before being confiscated.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

Thomas’s own “Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind” made for both an arresting centerpiece and a revealing portrait of the composer.

From Washington Post • Mar. 26, 2022

Phil, three years ago, he gave the local premiere of his “Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2022

Both dancers talked about Scarlett’s musicality and the pleasure of dancing “With a Chance of Rain,” an elegiac work for eight dancers set to six Rachmaninoff Preludes and an Elegy for piano.

From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2021

There occur to me two good examples of this, the C major and C sharp minor Preludes in the first part of the Well-tempered Clavier.

From Johann Sebastian Bach by Forkel, Johann Nikolaus