Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MUSIC REVIEWS generally have limited audiences--the only people who read them either played in the concert or attended it. Which is too bad. Because this review is mostly for people who didn't go to Saturday's Bach Society concert in Sander's Theatre...
...movement, but as Wolff relaxed he completely controlled the movement. The notes seemed to spin out from his fingers leaving webs of music suspended momentarily in the theatre. His technique is so finished that he sounds like a mature virtuouso, though he actually turned 20 the day after the concert. Hugh Wolff is definitely going places. His performance Saturday was but one indication of that...
...Theodorakis has emerged from his Paris home-in-exile to make his first U.S. concert tour. It began two weeks ago in New York-outside Greece and Cyprus the largest Greek community in the world, with 400,000 Greek Americans -and by the end of the month will have taken him to 22 cities, including Chicago, the second largest. Last week found him at the Kennedy Center in Washington, B.C., backed by a seven-piece band and three singers, notably scarlet-voiced Greek Songstress Maria Farantouri...
...poems (Put off the light! The guard is knocking./ Tonight they will come again"), others to those of the late George Seferis of Greece and Pablo Neruda of Chile. All were tuneful, simple, direct, almost thunderous in their momentum - and impossible to resist. Theodorakis conducted the concert with windmill waving of the arms that bespoke the amateur maestro but was nonetheless effective. When it was over, the crowd, only partly Greek- American, gathered round the stage apron clapping and cheering, even reaching up to shake the composer's willingly offered hand...
...appeared lost in indifference when not tuning his instrument (during several orchestral passages) or playing solo. His technique is impressive and certainly of professional caliber. His very mastery might cover up for the cavalier attitude he held toward an audience he apparently felt was not up to New York concert standards. Coming to a dead stop in the middle of the first movement cadenza, Portney explained that it was hot (more than obvious to everyone in the room) and that he wished to tune the violin. When finished, he continued the cadenza from his stopping point. As one amused orchestral...