Word: adagio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...striking perspective, but best of all is his Village nightclub with deep reds, clutter of paintings, and mammoth mobiles. His costumes for the dances staged by Donald Saddler are equally imaginative, particularly in an expressive number about the sister's hunt for job's and in the adagio jitter-bug of the nightclub scene...
Casds Festival at Perpignan, Vol. I (Perpignan Festival Orchestra conducted by Pablo Casals; Columbia, 4 LPs). The great cellist is heard here as a Mozart conductor (he plays a Haydn cello Adagio on a personally inscribed fifth disk for purchasers of the complete album), shows that it is still possible to make such old veterans as Eine kleine Nachtmusik sound daisy-fresh. The orchestra is the fervent group that gathered around the Master in 1951; soloists include Violinist Erica Morini, Oboist Marcel Tabuteau...
...Adagio and Presto for Three Violins, Trumpet, and Piano, by Yehudi Wyner 1G, brought the chamber music portion of the program to a close. The unique combination of instruments results in some fascinating sonorities, and there are many passages of great rhythmic originality. But even with the composer at the piano, the performance seemed to lack drive, polish, and rhythmic precision...
...Rickard avoids being merely imitative. His musical ideas are original and he expresses them in a carefully thought-out, effective manner. The Suite contains a wealth of ingenious rhythmic and structural patterns, yet their variety never endangers the unity of the work as a whole. The deeply-felt final adagio--rising to a loftier, more intense level of expression than any of the other movements--seemed to be the consummation of ideas expressed in the contemplative opening movement and the rhythmically fascinating, sometimes barbaric second movement. A superb performance by Robert Wolverton and Mr. Rickard showed to full advantage...
...typical Piston works brought the program to a pleasant, if not profound, conclusion. The Sonatina for Viola and Harpsichord, played by Miss Pernel and Melville Smith, consists of two light, almost frivolous, allegros with a subdued adagio in between. Miss Pernel showed greater self-confidence than earlier in the evening, and Mr. Smith, except for an occasional harshness in tone, was quite satisfactory...