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...program consists of Suite de Premier Ton by Louis-Nicolas. Clerambault; Sonata I by Paul Hindemith; Prelude and Fugue in A minor by S. J. Bach; Sonata III, Op. 65 by Felix Mendelssohn, and Concertante for Organ, Celesta, and Percussion by Daniel Pinkham. The latter number will be conducted by the composer...
Fire Buff. Descendant of a long line of fiddling Fiedlers (his father and two uncles were violinists with the B.S.O.), Arthur studied at Berlin's Royal Academy of Music, joined the Boston Symphony in 1915 and played musical chairs (violin, viola, celesta, piano, organ and percussions) before he founded the open-air Esplanade Concerts in 1929 and began luring up to 20,000 persons across the Arthur Fiedler Bridge to the banks of the Charles River for free concerts. In 1930 he became the first Boston-bred conductor of the Pops...
...platform to make way for a percussion section that had to man five timpani, three side drums, a bass drum, four kinds of cymbals, a tam-tam, three bongos, three temple blocks, a wood block, sandpaper blocks, rasp, whip, ratchet, triangle, maracas, claves, tambourine, chimes, glockenspiel, xylophone, vibraphone, celesta, piano and harp. Charles Munch, God bless him, conducted...
Originally, Schoenberg scored Gurrelieder for four choruses, five solo voices, and a greatly augmented orchestra, including four harps and a celesta (in last week's performance, Stokowski managed with a standard-sized orchestra and only one choir). All this musical effort supports a series of songs linked by orchestral interludes and based on a medieval Danish story somewhat similar to the Tristan and Isolde legend. King Waldemar has married for political reasons but continues to pine for the Princess Tove. to whom he has presented his castle at Gurre. Tove is put to death by the queen, and Waldemar...
...minute Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra. Using 64 percussion instruments, the concerto featured five percussion "soloists," whose duties proved so complex that they had to dart about the stage. Among the instruments employed: Chinese gongs, temple blocks, tom-toms, marimbas, vibraphones, Pyrex mixing bowls, a xylophone, a celesta, a glockenspiel. For all its fearsome instrumentation, the concerto proved to be one of Cowell's more immediately appealing works - alternately delicate and boisterous, crosshatched with curiously shifting rhythms. Less stark than the works of Cowell's youth (when he liked to roll the piano keys with his fore arms...