Word: chording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ballet, an orchestral score which won the 1956 Nadia Boulanger Prize, was performed by Ann Besser and Rzewski. The work is in four movements--Prelude, Vivace, Pantomine, and Pas d'action. It is impossible to judge a symphonic piece fairly after hearing it on the piano. The repeated-chord figurations which were so annoying would probably have been effective, had they been lightly chanted by a woodwind choir (or even played much more softly on the pianos). The melodies that could be heard above the accompanimental material were often charming and expressive--but this work ought to be heard...
...Mexico City, nearing the end of a 10,000-mile tour through Latin America, Conductor Alexander Hilsberg and the New Orleans Symphony gave a concert at the unmusical hour of 11:15 a.m., but the big (capacity: 3,700) Teatro Metropolitan was nearly full, and by the final chord of Stravinsky's Fire Bird Suite, the crowd was up and whooping an ovation. The only reason the audience let the orchestra quit after three encores was that it was time for the bullfights. The New Orleans musicians had left their musical mark on 22 cities and towns from Lima...
...characterize Eden's deportation of Archbishop Makarios as "muddleheaded," but what was the alternative after Britain's offer of self-government under British security had been rejected? The "self-determination" of the Cypriots strikes a responsive chord in American hearts, but have the consequences of the "down-with-Britain" cry been fully considered? What would have happened to Cyprus in World War II had it been Greek? Even more, what will be its fate in any future Mediterranean struggle without the presence of Her British Majesty's troops...
Virgil Thomson's music strives to recreate the atmosphere of the period by the use of simple melodies and simpler harmony. The motifs are often built on a single chord, suggesting bugle calls, and this lack of pretension adds charm to the score. Taken seriously, the music becomes tiring in its succession of tonic and dominant chords. The lack of variety, however, is atoned for by the music's good humor, clear orchestration, and subservience to the text...
Student of High Life. Rubinstein was born in Lodz, Poland, the youngest of seven children of a small manufacturer. By the time he was three, he was a "terrible little fiend" about music, screaming at his sisters when they struck a sour chord and banging the piano lid on their fingers to make them stop. Impressed with his son's possibilities, Papa Rubinstein bought him a child-sized violin. Artur promptly smashed it. Papa bought another, and Artur smashed that too. Papa gave up, let him concentrate on the then less fashionable piano...