Word: accompanimental
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Markevitch's minimum requirements for practicing his craft: thorough knowledge of musical history, fluency in at least three languages, mastery of all the classical symphonies, plus six operas, ten oratorios, and accompaniment for all the major concertos. "If you don't know the works by heart," says Markevitch...
Zoltan Kodaly's Hary Janos Suite, best described as an interminable joke, constituted the second half of the concert. The suite recounts in six programmatic movements some tales of the Hungarian folk-hero Hary Janos, and is as much of a musical extravaganza as those tales were tall. "A magnificent...
Wine & a Chorus. After the last rock barrier fell last week, the weary tunnel diggers joined high officials and journalists in a gala celebration over a huge buffet of salami, ham rolls, petits fours, 200 bottles of French champagne and 450 bottles of Italian wine. High and happy, one French...
But last week it became clear that Tennessee would hear more from Clement−lots more. At age 42, he made a political comeback by beating two other men in a primary, which virtually assures him the governorship in November. He Won the way he always has−with words...
The quality of Friday evening's Bach Society concert in Paine Hall ranged from bad to mediocre. Horn soloist Joel Kotin's silvery tone and sure techniqque almost raised Mozart's Fourth Horn Concerto in E-flat to the level of excellence. But vacillating accompaniment from the orchestra, conducted by...