Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HARVARD GROUP FOR NEW MUSIC is a crusader for the performance and reception of contemporary music. The group's concert last Saturday night, which included works by Burton, Dautricourt, MacMillan, and Ives, showed that the battle is by no means won; even one of the evening's performers half-jokingly confided, "I'll be amazed if you like this; I know I don't." But at least he, like an increasing number of Harvard community members, was interested enough to take a first step toward modern music. And despite his words, the concert proved both commendable in the level...
Recognizing this need for repeated exposure to a complex piece of contemporary music, Karchin and Salerni programmed the same work to open both halves of the concert: David Burton's Serenata for 8 Wind Instruments, composed in 1971. Burton was a graduate student in music before his untimely death last year, and the Serenata shows a keen appreciation of the possibilities inherent in wind chamber music. In particular, winds rather than strings, by the nature of their instruments, are more suited to Burton's use of short, rhythmically changing yet repeated motives. If anything, the Serenata is too rhythmically demanding...
...ANOTHER TACK, Burton's piece also demonstrates contemporary music's diverse treatments of melodic lines and the 'flow' of a piece. The first movement proceeds by a multi-layered interlocking of individual wind outbursts, roughly comparable to a group of eight people taking turns reading successive words in a sentence. The second movement, in contrast, features a lyrical alto saxophone solo, with subtle accompaniment by the lower brasses. The quizzical third and final movement, however, takes the approach of 'white' sound--the musical term is meant to convey the combination of different light wavelengths into a perceived mixture of 'white...
Harvard Group for New Music. Works of Dautricourt, MacMillan, Burton and Ives played by Stephen Drury on the piano at 8:30 p.m. in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room. Free...
...Burton Wolfman, administrative dean of Radcliffe, said yesterday the Radcliffe Board of Trustees allows alumnae to use Hilles as a special privilege...