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...predictably, Down by the Riverside. He stages a fireworks display at show's end to hold the very young. But he has greater ambitions than that. His programs are heavily laced with contemporary works like Penderecki's Pittsburgh Overture, Badings' Armageddon and Mayuzumi's Concerto for Percussion-just three of the 200 scores he has commissioned and published. Not content merely to bring music to the local wharf or ferry landing, he sends chamber groups into homes for lecture recitals, and he himself can often be found rehearsing the local high school band. It may just...
...held a meeting and urged them to "make the whole city a festival." The fiesta-fond Italians took him at his word, celebrating Menotti's 60th birthday with brass bands, torchlight processions and 2,000 signed testimonials of affection. Awakened by a rendition of his own Triple Concerto, the composer sniffled: "Before this I felt like an ornament. Now I feel like a household utensil, and it's wonderful...
...music, spurred largely by the vitality of rock, soared to $1.1 billion. By and large it is the young who spend all that money. Given the right impetus, they are not necessarily averse to the classics-as proved by what Elvira Madigan did for Mozart's Piano Concerto, K. 467, or 2001: A Space Odyssey did for Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra. "If Elvira Madigan made Mozart a relevant experience for the youth generation," asks Munves, "why can't we make it happen for other composers...
...BACH Society orchestra can claim fame as the orchestra that brought you the "Concerto Scene" in Love Story. This weekend, though, there's a real concert, featuring two works for soprano performed by Pene lope Jense. Mrs. Jensen, a graduate of the Ed School, has not sung in this kar with the unmistakable Frenchness area since the Monteverdi Vespers of 1966. since the Monteverdi Vespers of 1966. since then, she has soloed with the Cleveland Orchestra under Sixteen Ehrling and the Atlanta Symphony under Robert Shaw; Saturday she performs the Bach "Wedding Cantata" and the rarely performed Quatre Poems Hindous...
Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 (Seraphim). The frisky First Concerto, written when Shostakovich was 27, remains one of his most disarming works-especially when he plays it himself, as in these performances recorded...