Word: concertos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years ago, Violinist Jascha Heifetz asked Composer Walton to write him a violin concerto. Last spring Composer Walton delivered the completed manuscript at Heifetz' Connecticut estate, and last week in Cleveland Violinist Heifetz, with fidgety Artur Rodzinski's streamlined Cleveland Orchestra as background, gave the new concerto its first performance. Well-woven as a Paisley shawl, Composer Walton's opus proved warm as well as intricate. And though Cleveland's dowagers found its texture scratchier than crepe, Cleveland's critics fingered its solid warp & woof with enthusiasm. Said Clevelander Rodzinski, rolling a long cigaret...
Meanwhile, Composer Walton, who had hoped to be there on the night, was busy driving an ambulance somewhere in England. Wrote he, mournfully, in a letter to Violinist Heifetz: "I don't know when I will hear the concerto-perhaps never. I have been hoping that the performance will be broadcast. If it is, can you make a recording of it and send it to me?" The performance was not broadcast, but Violinist Heifetz planned to make a private recording for Composer Walton...
...program: Handel's Concerto Gresso No. 24 (F major), Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Bach's Sonatina from "God's Time is Best," Bach's Concerto for Harpatchord and Strings and Handel's Overture to "Ottone...
...other works of Bach on the program are the F minor Harpsichord Concerto and a Sonatine from the cantata, God's Time is Best. Two Handel compositions--the Concerto Grosso number 24, and the Sinfonia to Ottone--will also be played. All of these works are unfamiliar to us and probably to the majority of concert-goers. The Handel concerto is interesting, for the two movements of which it is composed are really sketches for the well-known Water Music and will show the seeds of some of Handel's loveliest musical ideas...
...tremendous possibilities of another aspect of student music were demonstrated last Thursday at the Leverett House Christmas Concert. Except for the W. F. Bach concerto which is much too fussy for any but a first rate orchestra, there was very little of the struggling with notes which one might expect from a group made up of amateurs even to the conductors. The outstanding job was done by the Radcliffe Madrigal Group in the three carols for women's voices, but the execution of the whole program was on a surprisingly high level. The concert and others like...