I gave up the piano after one too many recitals.    From LearnThat.org. 

Artists from around the world perform in recitals, concerts, plays, ballet, modern dance, opera and art exhibits.    From Wordnik.com.  [The beautiful Mexican colonial city of Guanajuato] Reference

I also had quite an education, and took years of piano lessons and appeared in recitals with other children my age.    From Wordnik.com.  [Your Comments] Reference

As it was, he only ever really showed this talent in recitals with his wife, the formidable soprano Galina Vishnevskaya.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference

The personal note which Mrs. Robson brought to her recitals was a new and pleasing experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Blood Red Dawn] Reference

SummerStage will also host a mix of films, dance performances, spoken word recitals and family activities.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Live performances by 36 local artists will include music from the Chatham Concert Band, spoken-word recitals, and dance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference

Most tango shows are best described as recitals, in that they feature a series of dance displays rather than tell a story.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Standard - Home] Reference

Someone explained to him that rapping was mixing music with "recitals," or rhymes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ugandan President Won't Be Beat When It Comes to Musical Platform] Reference

And give us, in recitals of disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia] Reference

Now I know why I never participated in any kind of recitals ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Stirrup Queens] Reference

These "recitals" constitute the preamble to the Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elihu Root - Nobel Lecture] Reference

I have thought it better to print these "recitals" as verse, though in the original (as obviously in my translation) they are almost prose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kumasaka] Reference

Two other top singers gave recitals (from memory).    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC Prom 54; La fanciulla del West; Joyce DiDonato; Simon Keenlyside; Kronos Quartet] Reference

I turned away with utter disgust at their recitals.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference

I can quit attending soccer games and dance recitals.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Matters Is Apparent] Reference

He was only doing a small number of classical recitals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcia G. Yerman: Pavel Vinnitsky's Vision: To Revitalize Jewish Music] Reference

I'm a professional singer and I sing a lot of recitals.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tour of American Popular Song] Reference

We have been excluded from birthdays, recitals, school functions, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ask Amy] Reference

Their poets imbodied in verse these favourite recitals of love and war.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Moors of Spain] Reference

Their recitals of the atrocities committed in the South were indeed horrible.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference

Under influence of insidious drinks, they vie in recitals of villainous craft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference

You can hear some of her recitals and other features in this series at npr. org.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guiding the N.Y. Philharmonic's 'Inner Voice'] Reference

She ended her recitals with a folk song that she learned, at 10, from her teacher.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Salute to the ‘Bubbles’ Who Never Went Flat] Reference

There are, as always in Washington, some excellent vocal recitals on the calendar.    From Wordnik.com.  [For fall 2010, Washington's classical music companies are bringing in big names] Reference

She so long had thought of him as dead that these reports sound like ghostly recitals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference

The essay, orations and recitals were pronounced good by those not immediately concerned.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Missionary — Volume 52, No. 3, September, 1898] Reference

Her three-hour recitals in our non-air-conditioned studios in June seemed far too long to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Kaiser: Remembering Denise Jefferson] Reference

"Did the meetin 'house burn down?" interrupted Landy, who had followed the recitals intently.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story] Reference

Charles 'recitals were so insinuating that Pierre felt much constraint toward polite bragging.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference

Even after I left the Ailey organization, Denise and I would argue about the length of recitals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Kaiser: Remembering Denise Jefferson] Reference

He was a superb teacher: long recitals of dauntingly indiscreet anecdotes and shrewd observations.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Rare Soldier-Statesman] Reference

We closed our interview, after listening to their sad recitals, with prayer, in which all took part.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference

She gave a number of all Schubert recitals at the South Bank Center in London and they put them on CD.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sacred Songs And DJs: New Classical CDs] Reference

A self-described "fanatic" as a mother, Hillary rarely misses Chelsea's softball games or ballet recitals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary Then And Now] Reference

He even has Taliban ring tones — fire-and-brimstone sermons and Qur'anic recitals from jihadist mullahs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jihad Chic Comes to London] Reference

Assemblies, school plays, recitals, graduations growing up there were at least annual occasions for ovations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sound Of Two Hands Clapping] Reference

(Soundbite of music) WAS: Horowitz contracted a private company to cut lacquer disc recordings of all of his Carnegie Hall recitals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Horowitz Rediscovered At Carnegie Hall] Reference