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Last week, while the Composers Quartet was performing in New York City, Conductor Seiji Ozawa and the San Francisco Symphony were playing Carter's granitic Concerto for Orchestra (1969) in the War Memorial Opera House. In March, Pierre Boulez will preside over the world premiere of a new Duo for Violin and Piano at a New York Philharmonic Prospective Encounters concert. At 66, Carter would seem to be in danger of becoming that rare thing in contemporary music, a composer in vogue...
That is not the only kind of organizing device to be found in Carter's music. His Piano Concerto is built out of all the different three-note chords (triads) that exist within the octave. String Quartet No. 3 is based on four-note chords, the Concerto for Orchestra on five-and seven-note chords. This music no more has a conventional beginning and ending or progression in time toward a Brahmsian climax than a de Kooning has an east or west...
...three-member jury of music educators last night failed to name a winner in the Harvard concerto contest. The deadlocked panel announced after the more than three-hour competition that a runoff will be held next Wednesday night...
What the Baroque is really all about can be gleaned from the original use of the French word baroque to describe irregular or misshapen pearls. Explains Kipnis: "In Baroque music of Bach, Handel and Rameau, the pearls are the musical forms-such as the sonata, the concerto grosso or the da capo aria. Trills, other ornaments, colorful dissonance, wildly uneven rhythms-all these are devices that create tremendous tension, yank the listener back and forth and leave him in anything but absolute comfort...
...doubtful whether any harpsichordist now performing can match his particular combination of formal restraint, interpretive flair and sheer energy. Certainly that was the case last week as Kipnis made a successful New York Philharmonic debut playing two diverse works under Conductor Pierre Boulez-Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 and Falla's Harpsichord Concerto...