Word: cello
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sanders Theater, but pack it did Wednesday night. An audience so large that many were standing along the back walls heard Bruce Simonds, dean of the Yale Music School, and George Brown, a member of that school's faculty, play three of Beethoven's five sonatas for piano and cello and 12 Variations on a Theme by Mozart...
...unfortunate in view of the crowd that the concert, sponsored by the Harvard Department of Music, was not better. Mr. Brown, playing the cello, rarely matched the musicianship of his partner. The Piano part was played by Mr. Simonds in a fashion that left little to be desired. Not only was it technically excellent, but there was enough personality and feeling injected into it to make it brilliant...
Shostakovich: Trio in E Minor (Dmitri Shostakovich, piano; David Oistrakh, violin; Milos Sadlo, cello; Mercury, 6 sides). Recorded at the Prague Music Festival three years ago, this album is more notable for its musicians than for its sometimes gay, sometimes depressing music. Recording: good...
...American entries alone provided dozens of provocative contrasts. From such hard-to-make and hard-to-take abstractions as David Smith's tortuous steel Cello Player (the work of a onetime war-plant welder), visitors could turn to such literary hardware as Mitzi Solomon's aluminum Family of Man Totem. Among the best of the relatively representational items were Alfeo Faggi's leggy, high-breasted Eva, Koren Der Harootian's Slave, Burr Miller's classic marble nude La Victoire, and William Steig's tiny, self-effacing Elderly...
Thomas Phillips '47, a member of the faculty of the Longy School of Music, will conduct the orchestra. Oboe, flute, trumpet, two violins, two violas, cello, bass, and percussion are required by the score...