Word: celesta
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ambitious, unorthodox undertaking to date. In a large gymnasium (the Los Angeles performances were at the John Wooden Center on the UCLA campus), a centrally located small orchestra of 24 is surrounded by six soloists scattered around the room, performing at various times on amplified xylophone, vibraphone, cimbalom, harp, celesta, electric organ, two pianos and percussion. The sounds are fed into a bank of computer-synthesizers, which alter and transform them according to a predetermined program and project them out again through loudspeakers hung over and around the audience. The drama lies in the confrontation between the acoustic...
...easier on the young American students than he is on professional musicians. Through 17 rehearsals he painstakingly explores every bar without the use of a score, allowing no detail to escape his attention. "How many bars in the new tempo do you have?" he demands of an errant celesta player. "I was taking my cue from the harp," she explains. Says Celibidache: "The harp was perfect. You came in too soon...
...tribute to a major figure in British music. Just before his death at his villa on the Italian island of Ischia (the inspiration for Hockney's set), Walton had put the finishing touches to his score. The music is carefully crafted and sparklingly orchestrated with sprinkles of harp, celesta and xylophone-qualities that are reflected in Sir Frederick's deft choreography. Like his great colleague George Balanchine, Ashton has an unerring ability to match movement with sound in a way that slights neither, creating something fresh and whole to charm the eye and resonate in the soul...
...only a handful of disciples. But his effect on the music of this century has been significant. It was BartÓk, for example, who brought the percussion section to prominence in works such as the Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion and the Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, liberating drums, cymbals and gongs from their traditional role as accompanists and inspiring his successors to use percussion instruments in bolder and more imaginative ways. In his six String Quartets, generally acknowledged as the most important works in the genre since Beethoven's, the dense, intricate writing challenged...
ABBADO HAS A WEAKNESS for airy tunes played on glockenspiel and celesta. The tunes come and go between martial rhythms. Young Gustav, fascinated by the military, could never quite part with his recollections of parading soldiers. The march was to Mahler what the Ring of the Nibelung was to Wagner...