(It is noteworthy that in Laws, the principal speaker an unnamed visitor from Athens proposes that laws should be accompanied by "preludes" in which their philosophical basis is given as full an explanation as possible.
Revolutionary Etude by Chopin, Prelude in C# Minor by Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Hungarian Rhapsody by List are three such pieces which tend to qualify as "show pieces".
April 23, 9 and 11 a.m.: "Praise the Lord with Drums and Cymbals" by Sigfrid Kerg-Elert, "Instruments Waken and Publish Thy Gladness" by Buxtehude; Nancy Shellhaus and Kristin Weltzheiner, flutists; Margaret Sanzo, harpist; "Victory" by John Ness Beck, "Festival Prelude" by C. S. Lang.
A song, usually preceded by a prelude, may be sung in slow, moderate, or fast tempo divisible by two or four, with a simple contrapuntal (countermelody) accompaniment using unisons and octaves at beginning points of phrases.
February 12 2014 February 26 201414 Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre presents a play written and directed by Craig Lucas ("Prelude to a Kiss"), about a painter and her two lovers.
"STRANGER" In this new play by Craig Lucas ("Prelude to a Kiss"), a man and a woman, one of them a recently released felon, meet on a plane.
By Steve Coll Prelude to violence: In North Waziristan, people looked up to watch as drones circled for hours, or even days, before striking.
(Vivien Schweitzer) New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) This excellent orchestra's music director, Jacques Lacombe, returns for season-ending concerts celebrating two of the year's major anniversaries: Wagner's 200th birthday, to be commemorated by the Prelude and "Liebestod" from "Tristan und Isolde," and the centenary of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring".
The concert's second half was the aesthetic equivalent of whiplash: Wagner's Symphony in C, a youthful work that aimlessly frittered with Beethovenian motifs, was followed by the Prelude and Liebestod from "Tristan und Isolde," with ravishing singing from Ms. Goerke.
