Example Sentences

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“It became in a way unperformable, which I think is a shame.”

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2021

The change was deliberate: “Coming off an album that is almost unperformable live, I definitely wanted the live show to reflect this record a little bit more,” Rose said.

From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2013

In Vienna between 1862 and 1864, Tristan had more than 70 rehearsals before the opera house gave up and thought the thing unperformable.

From The Guardian • Dec. 20, 2012

Though the composer grandly pronounced Tristan "the greatest musical drama of all time," opera houses in Dresden, Berlin, Vienna and Munich rejected it as "unperformable."

From Time Magazine Archive

It was not surprising that many came to assume that Mussorgsky's original work was unperformable.

From Time Magazine Archive