Word: accompanimental
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The accompaniment for the dances is drums--drumming in fact, pervades the whole evening, from the shattering "Appel du Tam-Tam" played before the curtain rises, to the helter-skelter explosion of high spirits in the final. There must be at least two hours of drumming in this show, and...
Fortunately, Joseph de Pasquale, the principal violist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who was guest soloist in the Berlioz, produced a performance which was absorbing enough to take attention away from some of the orchestra's defects, and at the same time add an element of warmth which was absent...
Omnibus (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). The program that symbolizes TV's search for dignity opens its sixth season with Boston Lawyer Joseph N. Welch probing capital punishment; Alistair Cooke still provides the accompaniment.
The 33-minute work for six vocal soloists with chorus and full orchestra-but with no trumpets, and a Flügelhorn and alto trombone added-was presented by Venice's International Festival of contemporary music. Stravinsky's text and title-Threni, id est Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae (Threnody...
Son of a Gloucestershire clergyman and blessed with a private income, Ralph Vaughan Williams was never a man in a hurry. Not until his 35th year, when his Walt Whitman cantata Toward the Unknown Region was performed (1907), did he attract any real attention; by then he was already six...