Word: cello
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ideas & Ideals. But all the bravos in South America and in Turin, where he conducted next, couldn't have kept Toscanini from a job he had his eye on. With his cello under his arm, he scurried to Milan to join the orchestra-as second cellist-that was preparing the premiere of Verdi's new opera, Otello...
Music, with Echoes. Matisse's revolutionary synthesis through the years has become increasingly lucid, brilliant and gay. Now his subject matter means little; the colors are the thing. And each color, linked in loose, insistent rhythms of linear composition, sounds in the eye like a separate instrument: trumpet, cello, cymbals, oboe, harp and clarinet. Freely transforming nature, the paintings resound with symbolic echoes...
...next liberty taken by Mr. Woodworth was that of cutting the rich instrumental score of the original down to a meager violin, oboe, 'cello, horn, and piano continue. Although it would doubtless have been difficult to use a full-size orchestra on the Sanders stage, surely more could have been done with the situation than this feeble quintet, which was forced to play against more than 170 voices. As it was, the instrumentalists present were far from perfect in tone or even pitch, and their weakness undermined the total effect...
...Carnegie Hall audience greeted the piano concerto warmly. But bowing and beaming, Composer Casadesus had more on his mind than the applause. He had a half-finished cello concerto waiting for him at home. Said he backstage: "I know I will compose tonight. I never rest. I am always in the fire...
...Introduced a "lost" Chopin cello concerto...