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...Ernest Bloch's Suite Modale had a more confused, unsteady relationship between the melodic lines of the flute and orchestra, which may have been the fault of Bloch or the performance. Otherwise, the orchestra and Ogle were adequate...
Although the four pieces span only a half-century in time, they contrast greatly in style. While the Mahler songs express a profound disillusionment, the Bloch and Ravel struggle to retain vitality by assimilating new elements--jazz and modality--and the Kennan by Restricting its own scope...
...piece of music. Mr. DeVoto writes with easy assurance; his deft, varied and imaginative scoring and an evident command of conventional forms allow him to experiment at leisure with the work's harmonies and tonalities. This is a relaxed and clever style reminiscent, if anything, of the early Ernest Bloch--I have in mind particularly, his Concerto grosso for Orchestra...
HARVARD--RADCLIFFE CHESTRA, conducted by Senturia '58, will present a Concert is Sanders Theatre at P.M. MAUREEN FORREST (who surely deserves caps) sing Mahler's Five Last Songs; Suzanne Burke will Ravel's Piano Concerto In G; the orchestra will perform Ernest Bloch's Suite Modale, Kennan's Night Soliloquy, first-desk-man Alex Ogle as fiautist. Tickets: $1.00, $1.50, $2.50 at the Coop...
...Shylock has, as it has once before, given rise to the countermyth: the myth of the Jew as artist, as aesthete, as hypersensitive and anxious man; and in this mask he has engaged the attention of the great novelists of our century. For the creators of Swann (but also Bloch), of Leopold Bloom, Joseph K, as well as the recreator of the Biblical Joseph, the Jew has come to reflect increasingly the problems and pressures of Western man. If he is still (or more than ever) the Outsider, he knows that he has been cast in a role that symbolically...