Word: accompanimental
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In Gilbertian terms, the object of the Winthrop House Music Society is sublime. And this year the production matches the goal; for with their performance of Patience, the Winthrop group has overcome with case the difficulties of piano accompaniment and crowded common room. It has collected the voices and the...
On Friday night, the faculty's second spring concert opened with Manuel de Falla's Harpsichord Concerto. While de Falla's music has a strongly Spanish flavor, it is not the tambourine-and-castanets omelet favored by Rimsky-Korsakov and Bizet. Rather, he uses irregular rhythms, unresolved harmonic tensions, and...
To the credit of the cast, the actors try every bit as hard as their script writers. Kitty Carlisle, fresh from innumerable operettas, can get laughs without musical accompaniment, while MacDonald Carey, as her husband, is properly harassed. Lesser roles are handled by Phyllis Povab, a neurotic and amusing mother...
The music itself has a tremendous amount of motion and harmonic variety. It sounds almost atonal at times, but I suspect this is due largely to the sudden, rapid shifts in tonality. Textural variety is achieved by frequent solo passages in which one of the instruments takes a long, vocal...
It is easy to see why Berlioz is called the "father of modern orchestration." In Mephisto's sardonic serenade, for instance, plucked strings serve as a monstrous guitar-like accompaniment; in the Ride to the Abyss, woodwinds croak like vultures and wild hoofbeats run through the strings. But the Damnation...