Tchaikovsky
Americannoun
noun
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To test it, he played a Tchaikovsky concerto, spanning its high and middle registers, finding sounds he “didn’t even know violins were capable of.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2025
But Chamberlain was cast as Tchaikovsky in Ken Russell's overblown biopic, The Music Lovers, in which he starred opposite Glenda Jackson.
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2025
Alexander Malofeev and Alexandre Kantorow, both winners of the Tchaikovsky competition, forge two very different paths as a new generation of pianists makes it mark.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2025
What was a tad curiously cautious was the playing of Yunchan Lim, the 20-year-old Korean pianist, as soloist in Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto that came before the Tchaikovsky.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2024
His artistic taste became their own: “We weren’t supposed to like Tchaikovsky, because Oppenheimer never liked Tchaikovsky,” objected one student, Edwin Uehling.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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