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That Handel sarabande was one of the catchy opening numbers of “Sarabande Africaine,” Ma’s joint appearance with Afropop singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo at the Hollywood Bowl on Thursday night.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2025

A graceful aria in the style of a sarabande goes through 30 variations.

From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2024

In Bach’s formidable “Partita No. 6,” Esfahani really did make it up, elaborately repeating each of its two sections of its intense sarabande with harmonically modern-sounding decorations.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2021

It's also in love with how Victorian Brits talked, that mellifluous sarabande danced around actual emotion.

From Slate • Jul. 27, 2010

Then we were off, Char naming each dance: a gavotte, a slow sarabande, a courante, an allemande.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine