Word: concertos
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...pieces called Feste Romane, whose chief virtue is that it includes the most delicate pianissimos as well as the most plangent brass. The sweeping gold acoustical canopy carried the sound, clear and unblurred, to the furthest seat. And when Violinist Jascha Heifetz joined the orchestra in Beethoven's Concerto in D Major, every member of the audience could feel himself the epicenter of the soaring sound...
...first concert, the HRO's new conductor Dr. James D. Yannatos chose a difficult program: Berlioz' Overture to "A Roman Carnival," Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra and Beethoven's Symphony...
...made me realize for the first time that perhaps Bartok, writing this concerto at the end of his life to appeal to a broad public, was secretly laughing at those who would be attracted merely by the sensuousness of the song...
Treasure Unearthed. He had to wait 16 years, but last week an interested audience gladly paid to hear Starker, one of the world's finest cello players, make his belated Carnegie Hall debut. For the occasion Starker performed the U.S. première of Haydn's Concerto in C for Violoncello and Orchestra, a work lost for nearly two centuries until it was unearthed in a castle in Czechoslovakia three years...
...three operas. "I have some real killers arranged for New York," he says gleefully, referring to Berlioz' rarely performed Symphonie Funèbre et Triomphale, a work for 180 musicians that will require the West Point Band as well as the Philharmonic, Leon Kirchner's Second Piano Concerto, and the American première of Bartok's Scherzo for Piano and Orchestra. "Then I have something for the New York snobs-an all-Mendelssohn program. This is really the height of snobbishness, the wonderful answer to the question of just what do the snobs need...