Word: concertos
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...face was called in. It belonged to Conductor Henry Lewis, and for him the critics had nothing but praise. Lean and rangy as a cowpuncher, he had the orchestra playing in the best big-band tradition of the 1940s for lighter numbers, deftly shaped a generous symphonic sound for Concerto in F and Rhapsody in Blue with grand, sweeping gestures. Says Lewis: "It's harder getting a symphony to swing than getting a jazz ensemble to play Bach." At performance's end, the audience cried "Grazie, maestro!" and the string players tapped their bows on their instruments...
...chased across the movie screen or sits in his rocking chair watching his oil wells." She frequently visits the Pyepot Indian Reserve, home of her tribe in Saskatchewan. Canada, recently returned from a four-month "recuperative leave" on an island off the coast of Spain, where she finished a concerto for guitar and orchestra and worked on an opera...
...orchestra composed of Harvard and Radcliffe students will open the presentation at 4 p.m. with Corelli's "Christmas Concerto." The Rev. William J. Schneider and the Rev. Warner R. Traynham of the Episcopal Chaplaincy will lead the opening and closing sections of the service...
Alban Berg's fine scores, expressively terse and textually dense, always pose the initial problem of hearing all that is essential. In the Violin Concerto, this dilemma assumes near-fatal proportions. The solo instrument is integrated into a large Wagnerian orchestra, which it must dominate with music marked mezzo-piano (or softer) seventy-five per cent of the time! Now Berg was no fool; the orchestra's dynamics are determined accordingly. But no orchestra can or will play continually softly, and the HRO proved no exception. The resulting acoustical imbalance seriously challenged the considerable prowess of violinist Charles Castleman...
Silver Medal winner in the Queen Elizabeth of Belgium Competition (the contest for violinists), Castleman has become a respected professional since his graduation from Harvard in 1964. Recalling his Tchaikovsky Concerto with the HRO, it is pleasing to find that his substantial technique is now wielded with more purpose, that his tone is pure, and effortlessly produced, and that his general style is scrupulous and considered. The "Viennese" sections he performs with broad portameati (slides) which makes sense; so does the fragmentation of certain chords to enhance their force...