Word: bassoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...piano last month, he conducted the orchestra in the world premiere of Bohuslav Martinu's Piano Concerto No. j. This week, in an all-Strauss program, he presented the U.S. première of one of the late composer's last works, his Concertino for Clarinet, Bassoon, Harp and Strings...
...program includes three movements from Haydn's London Symphony, Beethoven's Leanore Overture No. 3, Rondo from Mozart's Bassoon Concerto (Ted Schultz, bassoonist), and Berlioz' Marche Hongroise from the Damnation of Faust...
Organ Music (Sun. 9:15 a.m., CBS). Bach's "Saint Ann" Prelude and "Saint Ann" Fugue, Dobbelsteen's Fourth Impromptu, Galliard's Sonata for Bassoon and Keyboard, No. 1. Organist: E. Power Biggs. Bassoonist: Raymond Allard...
...scales alone, accompanied with such comments as "met and played like thunder...met, practiced, liquored and adjourned." Castigations of certain instruments were a common thing for "even the cello...persisted in being obstinate and unruly. Altogether...a shameful meeting." "Few of us...will forget the pathetic strains of the bassoon...or the complaining notes of the squeaking flutes, interrupted as they were by the sobs of the performers...
Their style is a draggy, lush melodic line trimmed with Elliot's piano solos. For sugar-spinning, the band has a symphonic wind section (bassoon, oboe, French horn, English horn and clarinet) which Elliot calls a Woodwindtette. Says he: "We're trying to get more classical sounds. That way we get a sort of purple mood. Overseas the kids loved wild razzmatazz. But now they're back, they want sweet music. They just want to put their arm around their gal friend and romance slowly. Let's not kid ourselves, that's why they like...