Word: accompanimental
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Richard Sogg '52, stole the show in the first B.S.O. performance of Vaughn Williams' Fantasia on the Old 104th Psalm Tune. This is the same work that created such a tremendous impression when played by Harvard and Radcliffe musicians in Sanders Theatre last month. Sogg handled the pyrotechnics of the...
The piano part in this song-cycle is more than a simple accompaniment. According to Hindemith, its relation to the voice is of great importance in achieving the effect that he wished to attain. Mr. Tucker's technique and interpretive insight was in every way equal to Miss Curtin's...
But Copland's songs are far from bad. Once in a while he sank to the cliche of repeating the first lines at the end of the song, thereby destroying the calculated effect of Dickinson's stanziac form; but on the whole, his settings agreed perfectly with the words. The...
Little Gania Borodin had a favor to ask of her famous father: Could she play a duet with him on the piano? Russian Composer Alexander Borodin beamed-it was news to him that his little girl could play at all. But he listened while she picked out "Chopsticks" with a...
Joel Mandelbaum gave an energetic, if somewhat officious, direction to the orchestra, a motley collection of strings and wind. The overture gave promise of an uncomfortable evening, but after the curtain opened the musicians settled down and provided a steady and lively enough accompaniment to the singers.