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...piano reduction of Claudio spies Music for a Ballet, an orchestral score which won the 1956 Nadia Boulanger Prize, was performed by Ann Besser and Rzewski. The work is in four movements--Prelude, Vivace, Pantomine, and Pas d'action. It is impossible to judge a symphonic piece fairly after hearing it on the piano. The repeated-chord figurations which were so annoying would probably have been effective, had they been lightly chanted by a woodwind choir (or even played much more softly on the pianos). The melodies that could be heard above the accompanimental material were often charming and expressive...
...winners include Radcliffe Student Council President Clementine K. Kuhlman of Briggs Hall and Nashville, a social relations major; Ann H. Besser of Holmes Hall and south Orange, N.J., a music major; Ann Crawford of Holmes Hall and Pasadena, Cal., an English major; Phyllis La Farge of Eliot Hall and New York City, a romance languages major; and Eva L. Neubauer of Briggs Hall and New York City...
...ditty by Christian Wolff, For Piano II, was notable for its extremely disjointed phrases, its bare, unornamented texture, and its utilization of the piano's percussive sonorities. On Monday night, Joel Mandelbaum's Piano Concerto in A received its premiere performance. Mandelbaum conducted the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, and Ann Besser, to whom the work was dedicated, was soloist. Its sonata form in the first movement and its frequent reduction of the piano to orchestra, place it more or less in the classical tradition. But the concerto is far from being dry or old fashioned. The published, varied orchestration (somewhat marred...
...Debussy. Milford's Sonata for Flute and Piano, will be played by Neville H. Fletcher 1G, flutist, and John Davison 2G, pianist. The program will conclude with a Movement from a Concerto in A Minor by Joel Mandelbaum '53, played on two pianos by the composer and Ann Besser...
...unique feature of the audition was the premiere of two movements from a piano concerto composed by Joel Mandelbaum for the soloist, Ann Besser. The concerto is written in the same key (A) as two others performed on the program, the Liszt and the Schuman. And though Mr. Mandelbaum does not wholly shun the contemporary idiom, in spirit his work is much like those two showpieces of the Romantic era. Miss Besser's performance, by its technical perfection as well as its penetration of the music showed the work off to excellent advantage...