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Commination is an office in the liturgy of the Church of England, appointed to be read on Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, containing a recital of God's supposed anger and threatenings towards sinners.
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Claudio Arrau was a Chilean pianist. He was born in 1903 and died in 1991. He gave his first recital when he was five years old and was sponsored by the Chilean government, studying music at Berlin's Stern Conservatory from 1912 until 1918 and subsequently taught there from 1924 until 1940.
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John Field was an Irish composer. He was born in 1782 at Dublin and died in 1837. He gave his first public piano recital when he was nine.
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Leopold Auer was an American violinist. He was born in 1845 at Veszprem, Hungary and died in 1930. He studied in Budapest and Vienna and with the celebrated Hungarian violinist Joseph Joachim in Germany. Through a friendship with the pianist and composer Anton Rubinstein, then director of the Conservatory of Saint Petersburg, Auer was appointed professor of violin at that institution in 1868. In 1883 he became a Russian subject. He was soloist to the tsar's court and founded the first important string quartet in Russia. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Auer gave concerts abroad. His first American recital was in 1924. In 1926 he became an American citizen. He was particularly known as a great violin teacher; his pupils included the American violinists Mischa Elman and Jascha Heifetz.
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A recital is a musical vocal or instrumental performance by one person as distinguished from a concert.
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Organ recital is American slang for to vomit.
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Ranting is British slang for a style of aggressive stand-up poetry recital.
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