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Lubow, a student of Claudio Arrau, won the Pierian Sodality Concerto contest this spring. At Town Hall he will perform works by Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Prokofieff...
...piano reduction of Claudio spies Music for a 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...
...Claudio Spies '50 was represented by his Music for a Ballet. My only reservation is that there was not enough Spies in the piece: it was pure neo-Classical Stravinsky--clear, clean and often dry with its reliance on repeated staccato notes. It had the virtues of being stylistically consistent (albeit in another man's style) and eminently danceable. Spies wrote it for two pianos and now intends to orchestrate it. This can be a dangerous procedure; for orchestration ought to be part of the original conception, not something to be added last. As this work now stands...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). With Pianist Claudio Arrau...
...city's long history and its conquest by Lucanians and Romans were well known from classical literature, and its walls and colonnades have impressed tourists for centuries, but not until 1951 was there a serious attempt to find what lay beneath the surface. Then Professor P. Claudio Sestieri and a gang of laborers set to work (TIME, Sept. 6). From tombs came vivid paintings on stone of household scenes and fighting gladiators. Last summer Sestieri uncovered a small, completely buried building, made a hole in its roof and lowered himself into the stagnant dimness. He was in the central...