Word: concertos
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Unfortunately for those who are fond of nostalgia, the show was stolen by soloist Charles Forbes with a virtuosic performance of the Haydn Cello Concerto, but there was much else to recommend itself...
...closing Haydn concerto was perhaps the finest musical performance of the year. The solo part is very flashy, with half the first movement written high on the fingerboard, and most of the last in difficult figuration. Forbes, who is a very suave cellist, played with impeccable taste and an overwhelming charm...
...people were disappointed that Senturia did not choose, for his last performance, a work which would allow him to shine somewhat more than the Haydn. But he has never imposed his personality upon the music or the audience, and it seemed entirely appropriate for him to end with a concerto. The mature musician is satisfied with participating, and does not need the constant glare of the spotlight...
...concession to the inadequacies of the organ, timpani were used with powerful and at times terrifying effect. But the apocalyptic climaxes were achieved at the price of turning the second chorus into a kettledrum concerto, and the theatricality of this novel compromise did not blend well with the rest of the performance...
...lives with his wife in a wood-and-glass, stilt-supported house in Berkeley, composes in a studio tucked below next to the garage. When he wrote his ambitious concerto, he had scant hope that it would be played, but went ahead anyway because "I wanted to express everything I could." His "everything" proved to be quite enough for the critics. Wrote the San Francisco Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein : "If it is all a total failure, the festival will nevertheless have been justified because it occasioned the first performance of Andrew Imbrie's Violin Concerto. It impressed...