Word: cellos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elliott Carter: Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello & Harpsichord (Columbia). One of the most original and least played of contemporary U.S. composers, Carter (now 51) appears in a work of characteristic complexity and charm. After a series of opening sonorities that explode on the ear, the sonata evolves into a dialogue between the harpsichord-querulous and spidery-and the other members of Carter's oddly assorted chamber group. For all its skirmishing, the sonata has no trouble finding its witty way home...
...Improvisation Chamber Ensemble, appeared at Carnegie Hall last week with the visiting Philadelphia Orchestra to display their technique in somewhat elaborated form. Their scheduled piece, certainly the oddest they have yet attempted, was titled Concerto for Improvising Solo Instruments and Orchestra. Pianist Foss and his men-flute, cello, clarinet and percussion-were ranged downstage in front of the orchestra, and Conductor Eugene Ormandy only rarely cast a nervous backward glance at them...
...Penney mail-order catalogue, for which she modeled junior dresses and bathing suits. Among her other distinctions: last year she won the "Smile of the Year" contest staged by the Los Angeles dental societies, and at East Hollywood's King Junior High School she played the cello. Her principal finds her "not bizarre," but if she is to play the role as Nabokov put it in the novel, she will have to be a "mixture ... of tender dreamy childishness and a kind of eerie vulgarity...
...stage of London's Royal Festival Hall, bowing gently and solemnly to the welling applause. Twice he withdrew, and twice he returned, walking with awkward, nervous steps. If Dmitry Shostakovich was surprised by the ovation, so was his audience by what it had heard: the Shostakovich Concerto for Cello, being given its London premiere, was one of the most immediate concert hits in years...
...EVENING CONCERT--Creston-Invocation and Dance; Locatelli-Sonata in D for Cello; Beethoven-Piano Concerto No. 4 in G., Op. 58; Listz-Les Preludes...