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• n  the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events
• n  performance of music or dance especially by soloists
• n  a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance
• n  a detailed statement giving facts and figures
  his wife gave a recital of his infidelities
• n  a detailed account or description of something
  he was forced to listen to a recital of his many shortcomings

• At Manhattan's Town Hall dour Wanda Landowska took her bow in a harpsichord recital which critics pronounced the finest tinkling of its kind.
• The song recital was like a new Schiaparelli showing.
• Upshaw has been featured on more than 50 recordings, including recital discs of music ranging from Baroque to contemporary, as well as several recordings of music-theater material .

• narration
• yarn
• recitation
• reading

News & Articles

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• Tickets Still Available for Dance Academy USA’s 2013 Recital This Weekend
  Dance Academy USA will be holding their annual recital this weekend, June 15th-16th. Tickets are still available for purchase. (PRWeb June 12, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10824184.htm
  June 12, 2013 - PRWeb
• Young pianists host Mini Solo Recital
  Five accomplished young pianists from Vernon, N.J. and Warwick, N.Y. performed for the fourth year in a 15 minutes Mini Solo Recital on Saturday, May 18 at the Calvary Baptist Church in Warwick, N.Y.
  June 11, 2013 - The Advertiser-News
• Mike Pound: Dance recital plans unfold exactly as predicted
  I said “no” before my wife could finish her question. It was Saturday morning, and the plan called for us to leave at about 2 p.m. for our 15-year-old daughter’s dance recital in Joplin. Emma and the other girls were to open the recital with a routine, and then they would be free until the second recital at 7 p.m.
  June 10, 2013 - The Joplin Globe

Quotes

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• David Broder in Harper's Magazine (blog)
  This was just the start of a Valentine's Day card to Palin, who Broder described as "a politician who knows who she is and how to sell herself, even with notes on her palm," and a woman with "a pitch-perfect recital of the populist message...
• Michelle Obama in CNN
  I'm a mother first. And I'm going to be at parent-teacher conferences, and ...... I'm going to be at the things that they want me to attend. I'm not going to miss a ballet recital,Michelle Obama said.