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The James Reinish booth is blanketed with works by artists exhibited by Alfred Stieglitz, including his own photographs, a small, excellent, nearly abstract nocturne by Georgia O’Keeffe and a 1908 tribute to Cezanne’s bathers by Abraham Walkowitz.
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Four arrangements of the fanfare are included on the album: the theme, prelude, nocturne and the full fanfare.
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The back-to-back solos, each set to a Chopin nocturne and choreographed 30 years apart, serve as the choreographer’s memoir, a gaze at his whole career and signature movement aesthetic in less than 10 minutes.
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Varone makes a rare appearance to perform a retrospective of his career in two solos set to Chopin nocturnes.
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Old First Concerts: Rosso Rose Duo Alisa Rose and Amy Zanrosso are joined by special guest pianist Ian Scarfe in a program of nocturnes by Copland, Cage, Medtner, Chopin, Ravel, Crumb, Ogerman, Rose, Szymanowski and Schnittke.
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Wright's early portraits on one wall bear little resemblance to the dark blue nocturnes on another wall.
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Across the gallery from those nocturnes are impressionist en plein air landscapes, wildly colored like the fauvists, dominated by cotton-candy pink and canary yellow.
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Under this definition, a registrant could commit a felony by checking basketball scores on ESPN.com, looking up cold remedies on WebMD, posting a résumé on LinkedIn, or listening to Chopin nocturnes on Pandora.
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NOCTURNE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of nocturne for English Language Learners
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: a piece of music especially for the piano that has a soft and somewhat sad melody
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