Word: allegros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First movement: Allegro. New York City, Feb. 27, 1984. Sergiu Celibidache makes his way across the stage of Carnegie Hall to a welcoming roar from the audience. He is the very image of a maestro out of Central European casting: formal evening clothes and a cascade of long white hair. After more than 30 years spent in the shadows of a reputation as the least heard of the great European conductors, he is finally making his American debut, not with a major orchestra, but with a student ensemble from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia...
Indeed, film composers have adopted the synthesizer at a tempo approaching allegro con brio. Giorgio Moroder has given it prominence in his scores for Midnight Express, Cat People and Scarface. James Horner used it along with mandolins, balalaikas and snippets of Tchaikovsky in his brooding themes for Gorky Park, and even such veteran film scorers as Quincy Jones and Lalo Schifrin have found that a judicious use of the synthesizer expands their imaginations. Observes Jones: "We're not giving up anything by using the synthesizer, only adding to the possibilities with space-age colors...
...mood and pace were allegro, but the program was strictly "Home Suite Home" for Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein, who marked his 65th year last week by returning to his birthplace in Lawrence, Mass. The big day began with a parade through the middle of town in a 1928 antique Ford, and went on to include a stop at the old family home (24 Juniper Street). As passionate about political issues as he is on the podium, Bernstein strongly endorsed the nuclear freeze movement in a speech. But the maestro was irked by Senator Edward Kennedy's failure to show...
...Martins' version of Bournonville's La Sylphide. For the Hartford Ballet, Martins will do a ballet set to Schubert. There is doubtless more Schubert in store for the home company too, but before that he will set a Rossini overture for Merrill Ashley, N.Y.C.B.'s allegro virtuoso...
...beat in a rather difficult passage, the rest of the players come in at just the right time to insure cohesion. Although the first theme of the first and second movements is reiterated at the end of both in a Tempo di commincio, the end of the last section, Allegro risoluto, might have been considered abrupt if the performance lacked such unity...