Word: bruckner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doom-laden summer started him on the book, the only novel he plans to write, nearly two decades later. "I knew what was coming," he said. "The streets were choked with Mercedes full of Nazis. But all that those dear people talked about was whether Mahler or Bruckner was a better composer-that was the big debate then. To this day I don't understand why they didn't see it and get out; but the sad truth is that no matter what public tragedy is looming, people continue acting out their own private comedies...
Before a competent reading of Peter Mennin's Canzona and the concluding Ten Thousand Men of Harvard the band tackled a parvum opus of Anton Bruckner: the March in Eb, "originally for street band," as Walker announced with pain. The thing never should have been arranged for modern band, and HUB was roundly hissed for it--and hissed back, according to tradition...
Nonetheless, the idea of the only march on the program being one by Anton Bruckner is a typical Walkerism. A respect for music, musicianship, and monkey business--with the present emphasis on improving the second--is rapidly creating out of the clubby organization a real wind ensemble. Problems remain, but on the basis of the improvement over the previous concert, one can of the improvement over the previous concert, one can safely predict that, given time, Walker will surmount...
Hysterical Herons. "The trouble with most of today's conductors," says Swarowsky, "is that they are not sure of style. A Dürer is not a Rembrandt; a Bruckner symphony is not a Wagner opera. Each style needs its own realization." To sharpen his students' sense of style, Swarowsky suppresses their personalities, dismisses their interpretive urges as mere dilettantism. He leads them through rigorous analyses of scores. "You learn," recalls Mehta, "what the composer is doing and why, and how he entered the composition-through the back door, as it were. We never heard in Swarowsky...
...ability to put himself into the music in a very, very intense way and to tell the musicians a great deal about how he wants it played." Says the Israel Philharmonic's chief concertmaster, Zvi Haftel: "He is more than just a gifted conductor. To change from Bruckner, which he conducts like a saint or an Indian priest, to Webern and then to Stravinsky with a burning fire and conviction-and transmit it to the orchestra-that is genius...