Word: concertanto
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...took all the repeats. Unfortunately, by repeating Haydn's musical joke in the last movement four times, he killed it rather dead. But the rest of the symphony lived. The second movement, taken at a good deliberate tempo, enjoyed the outstanding solo performance of Tison Street, concertmaster, as violin concertanto. Here, and in the fourth movement, Street gave truly professional performances: accurate, sure, and evocative of all the subtleties in the music. Marshall Brown, first cellist of the orchestra, played the violoncello concertanto. As they had all evening, the strings-notorious nomads in the wastelands of intonation-stayed right...
...members who can handle solos unusually well. Anthony Greenwald, trumpet, carried the lyric line without faltering in the Ives. Pam Campbell, flute, Randy Havilind, bassoon, and Chris Atwood, bass, put over the jokes in and Haydn's symphony, while, as already noted, Tison Street and Marshall Brown delivered the concertanto solos...
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