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Ornette Coleman's approach is a more polished one. In 1964, when this live recording was made, he had already won critical acclaim as a major innovator, and despite his continued interest in experimentation, he style had already jelled. Throughout this concert, Coleman displays an impressive ability to play in a wide variety of styles and moods. On 'Sadness' his tone is delicate, almost moaning, while on 'Ballad,' he strains at the melody as if fervently hoping or wishing. In 'The Happy Fool' and the facetiously titled 'Clergyman's Dream,' Coleman lays out a straight improvisational structure and swings through...
Other moments in this concert are less successful Coleman's piece 'Forms and Sounds for Wind Quintet' in ten movements has high theoretic ambitions but in performance is tedious. Coleman states that it is "a combination of diatonic and atonal intervals that creates a form out of a sound and a sound out of a form in which the five instruments blend, not by coming together, but by moving in opposing directions." The theory sounds impressive but after about five minutes (and the piece lasts 25) the lack of rhythmic color or dynamic change sterilizes the composition's impact...
Gerald Moshell has recruited his usual pick-up orchestra to assist several fine soloists in the final major concert of the year. The featured work will be the Bach Double Concerto with Ronan Lefkowitz and Robert Manero as the violin soloists. Bach's Fourth Brandenburg and Mozart's D-Major Violin Concerto will also be on the program...
Singer Helen Reddy's sell out London concert, attracted Critic Kenneth Tynan, Actor Danny Kaye and scores of others, but Richardson turned into the star attraction as soon as Lord Harlech's 1930s jazz records began spinning. With his wife Anne away in the U.S. for a visit, the ambassador quickly stepped forward with the guest of honor and began to jitterbug, boogie and foxtrot his way around the dance floor. The British duly took note. Observed the London Evening Standard afterward: "Mr. Richardson has a particularly outstanding sense of rhythm and is an energetic and talented dancer...
...Hugh Wolff '75 impressively handled the difficult off-beat rhythms in the Stravinsky work, and continued his authoritative and precise leadership in his direction of the premiere of John Thow's Astraeus. Thow is a graduate students in music at Harvard and completed this demanding work for Saturday's concert. It relies heavily on percussive effects--which begin before the conductor even walks on stage--and which the strings and woodwinds amplify. At times they overpowered the melodic line, perhaps because of acoustics in Sanders Theatre or weaknesses in certain sections of the orchestra. But Wolff deftly managed the complicated...