Word: cadenza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lawrence, are Lauriat Lane's Garrison Prize Poems. In three pieces; "Love Song After Tea," "Pastoral," and "Demobilized," Lane writes with a frugality that effectively achieves simplicity. Only in "Au Clair De Lune," the fourth of his five included poems, does Lane run into trouble with a high-flown cadenza (". . . the moon hangs pendulous/Upon the watch-chain of some night-vested god . . .") that weakens the impression of sincerity his first three works convey...
...slight task in choosing the concerto, which requires not only technical accomplishment but a sensitivity of interpretation to make it worth hearing. That the sensitivity was there was never in doubt, and Lee's technical standard was also high. The first movement in particular was impressive, with the cadenza--arranged by the performer himself--especially broad in emotional conception...
...stepped off a train at Truckee, Calif, into a Sierra Nevada snowstorm to help wait out her Reno divorce (due April 20). Meeting him in a secondhand Cadillac which she had just learned to drive, Gloria released the clutch as he crossed in front of the car. Only a cadenza-like leap saved him. Unruffled, the heiress drove him to her Lake Tahoe cabin while Manhattan friends & relatives dispatched frantic wires warning her not to marry the sixtyish conductor. Working on the side of the anti-romancers was 1) Stoky's shingles, 2) the weather (which did Stoky...
That Mr. Simonds not only is a remarkably able pianist but also possesses a thorough knowledge of Beethoven's Concerto was evidenced by the facility and technique of his performance. His cadenza in the First Movement presented the theme powerfully, yet simply, and throughout the second (Largo) and third (Rondo Allegro) movements his interpretation continued to be spirited and full. It was regrettable that the attack of the orchestra seemed slightly rusty in the first movement, but this fault decreased as the work progressed...
...same may happen to "New World a Comin," but I think that as a whole the piece is out of line as a jazz composition and not at all satisfactory from any other standard. In particular, I could not take the piano interludes and clarinet cadenza--which had nothing to do with jazz and appeared to have nothing to do with the rest of the composition...