Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brass were a measure out of step with the rest of the orchestra, and were playing so loudly that they could not hear their own error. Masochistic charity might have led one to expect the cold woodwind instruments to be out of tune at the beginning of a concert...
Consider the two pieces played by Michael Flaksman '66, principal cellist of the HRO. The Vivaldi Sonates en Concert in E minor for cello and orchestra were meant for cello and continuo. They sound soupy with a full orchestra. Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 is more at home with a saxophone band than this Vivaldi is with such a lush orchestral arrangement...
...concert version of Bartok's opera, Bluebeard's Castle, filled the second half of the program. The opera is Bartok's Opus 11, written in 1911 just four years after Kodaly had introduced Bartok to the music of Debussy, and while Bartok was still under the influence of Strauss and Wagner...
...attempt a real symphony or concerto at every concert? Why not attempt a real piece of twentieth century music at every concert: not Frank Martin, Roberto Gerhard, Alberto Ginastera, or the diaper works of Piston, Prokofiev, and Bartok; but Schoenberg, recent Stravinsky, our own Kirchner. Of course these works are too hard for the orchestra; but the attempts would be worth much more than regurgitations--and bad regurgitations--of Mendelssohn and Faure...
...WORLD OF HENRY ORIENT introduces Tippy Walker and Merrie Spaeth as a pair of antic New York juveniles scotching the adult delinquency of a lecherous concert pianist (Peter Sellers...