Word: adagio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...manage, even if it wanted to. When the animals, which some people presumably love, are about, there are dozens of them doing dozens of different stunts. When the tumblers are tumbling, there are five different groups of them doing then different acts. And there are aerial ballets and aerial adagio acts and aerial this and aerial that any flying trapezes. And there are small automobiles full of great numbers of large clowns. And no matter what is happening, fifteen other things are happening at the same time...
...first of the three works. A highly romantic reading of the slow movement sharply set-off the cheerful expression of the violin introducing the Russian theme of the last movement. The juxtaposition of the two moods is even clearer in the second quartet; an unusually long and searching adagio is followed by the rollicking humor of the jiggish last movement. Climaxing the whole series, the almost fugal finale of the third quartet presents complicated difficulties to the performers. Not without a little buzzing, the players carried...
...right, his long association with the Boston Symphony has made him entirely capable of taking over the Orchestra in Dr. Koussevitzky's absence. Mr. Burgin showed excellent taste in choosing a program: the concert opened with Brahms' often-played Third Symphony, continued with the never-played Adagio from Bruckner's String Quintet, and finished with a suite from "The Fairy Tale of Tsar Saltan" by Rimsky-Korsakov...
...amazed that the Bruckner Quintet is not heard more often; the Adagio is one of the most beautiful of its kind, and Tuesday's performance brought out its every shade. Granted that chamber music sounds differently played by a full orchestra, still it was a novel experience to hear Bruckner's Adagio done by one of the finest string sections anywhere...
...Summer Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 1 in G Minor, Glazounov's Carnaval Overture, Lekeu's Adagio for Strings. Conductor: Frank Black...