Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sizzling swing concert in Britain 23 years ago, Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong recalls, he interrupted himself to roll his eyes toward a royal box and rasp: "This one's for you. Rex!" Rex, better known as King George V, was jolted but amused, despite the protocol that bars entertainers from referring to royalty in the audience-let alone addressing them directly. Last week, cavalier as ever about protocol, Satchmo did it again. Beaming at a $3.50 orchestra seat in London's cavernous Empress Hall, Armstrong growled: "Now we are going to jump one for one of our special...
Refreshed, Puzzled. The concert's four works, written in strange and sometimes perplexing styles, might have left the crowd of 675 stupefied, but instead, left it refreshed. The most ear-cracking work. Webern's scintillant, fractured Variations for Orchestra, was so full of bewitching sonorities that listeners were just becoming adjusted to it when it ended. A nice antidote to this was Copland's durable old (1925) jazzy Music for the Theater. After the intermission. Hungarian Soprano Magda Laszlo. in her U.S. debut, sang solos in Dallapiccola's song trilogy, An Mathilde; its rich-hued. profoundly...
Worse in Paris. Jacques Monod is a conductor almost against his will. Born near Paris, he was propelled to the piano by his pianist mother; he gave his first concert at nine, and he has hated the piano ever since ("I don't even own one now"). Monod is a dour man. impatient with what he calls "musical politics." and with the mechanics of earning a living. His one steady job, at $150 a month, is as organist in a Roman Catholic church. But if the musical situation is bad in New York, Monod thinks it is even worse...
Jaime's parents, who skimp to keep him in rosin and catgut (Papa Laredo works at a desk job in a hospital), are reluctant to turn him loose as yet in the full-scale concert field. (He has played only a handful of concerts.) Too many, they realize, are the prodigies who "burn themselves out" in their adolescence and are never heard of again. As it is, the boy's life is far from normal. Now living in Philadelphia, he practices four hours a day, goes to Curtis three afternoons a week and plays chamber music two more...
Jaime plans to make his first concert tour in September (Peru, Bolivia and possibly Colombia) and then return for more studies, heading for eventual participation in the 1958 Brussels International contest. But he is cautious about predicting a future for himself: "Maybe it will be the concert stage, if I can make it. I can only hope...