Word: allegros
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...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...
...would have liked to hear Praeludium and Allegro (written in the style of Pugnani), Schon rosmarin or the cadenz to the Beethoven Concerto instead of the numerous Kreisler arrangements of other composers' works. The other pieces on the record are not worth the time or money. Any performance of Kreisler pieces (except Eugene Fodor on RCA Red Seal, 1977), will capture the flavor of this sentimentalist. Perlman plays a great Praeludium and Allegro...
...White House performance and at a concert in the Kennedy Center a few hours later, the symphony-probably its composer's third-proved to be genuinely Mozartean. A dashing allegro assai with a surprisingly sophisticated development (perhaps Leopold had a hand in here) is followed by an Italianate andante that ambles along amiably, the gracious, formal melody accompanied by a distinctive stutter-step in the violas. The presto finale is a sprightly...
...caught in flypaper for an entire reel of helpless hilarity to see what three-dimensional plasticity could do to enhance the range and delicacy of animated humor. When the whole Disney gang got going on something like The Band Concert or Mickey's Service Station, the allegro pace of comedy bits could be staggering. That these shorts appeared just seven years after Mickey's debut gives some indication of the tempo of inventiveness at the studio...