Word: chromaticisms
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If Faure is a comforter, Bruckner is a seer. In the Te Deum he probes the cosmos with dramatic horn calls, crescendos and sforzandos, threading the strident opening arpeggio throughout his relentless score, and develops leaps of an octave and fifth into a towering mystical insight into the universe. When...
Auburn hair swirled into a massive cone above her head, her strapping (5 ft. 9 in., 180 Ibs.) figure dominating the stage, she swept through Beatrice's gothic intricacies with the ease of a nanny crooning a lullaby. Her voice was round, smooth and flexible, negotiating the score'...
Perhaps the only quality missing was a sense of strain, for their quiet and restrained tone sometimes lacked the introspective torture of Webern's chromatic wanderings. But this complaint is a matter of interpretation; indeed, the brilliance of the performance lay partly in the consistency of their reading.
The only non-German composer was Harvard's own Walter Piston, with his early, acerb Chromatic Study on BACH, and his more recent and highly important Prelude and Allegro. In this and the Mozart, Mrs. Pardue was assisted by a string orchestra of Summer School students, conducted by G. Wallace...
She will open her program with four works by Bach. These will be followed by The Fugue in A flat Minor, by Brahms, Schonster Herr Jesu, by Schroeder, and The Chromatic Study on the Name of Bach, by Piston.