Word: archibald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turned out to be the old fogy at the concert that took place in Sanders Theatre on Monday evening before an audience of about 350 persons. Sponsored by the Summer School, a program mainly devoted to early 20th-century works was performed by soprano Dorothy Crawford and pianists Bruce Archibald and John Crawford...
...remaining items on the program were three works for solo piano, played by Bruce Archibald. Schoenberg's Six Short Piano Pieces, Opus 19 (1911), come from a period when the composed was tired of post-Romanticism but had not yet concretized his twelve-tone technique. After close acquaintance, they still impressed me as no more than undergraduate improvisation despite Archibald's careful rendition...
...Serenade en la (1925) is not Stravinsky at his best. It has a number of very haunting places; but there are some dull stretches that the proper self-criticism would have eliminated or rewritten. Archibald gave its four movements a clear and clean performance, with very little pedal...
...Archibald took several sections considerably faster than Copland himself used to, and in the process introduced quite a few wrong notes. But his over-all concept of the work's structure and impetus yielded a more unified result than when the composer played it. This is achievement enough for a young pianist...
...Archibald MacLeish's Job, though grey-flanneled and smartly modern, has real old-fashioned theatrical excitement...