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Those with a hankering to hear, say, Beethoven's Seventh Symphony or his Fourth Piano Concerto this summer not only could encounter these works at Ravinia, where Beethoven runs rampant, but could scarcely avoid them elsewhere: in upstate New York at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, played by the Philadelphia Orchestra (during its Beethoven festival); at Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony's Berkshire retreat (during an all-Beethoven orchestral weekend); and at the Hollywood Bowl (during the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Beethoven festival). Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and Los Angeles are each playing Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra...
When pressed, conductors and chairmen of orchestral boards will bombinate about the importance of hearing new and different works, of keeping musical culture fresh. But the talk rarely leads to more than token action, like scheduling a contemporary work between a well-known overture and a famous symphony or concerto. If new music is occasionally recognized, another category is nearly always overlooked: lesser-known works from the past. Why should concertgoers be force-fed a steady diet of chestnuts when, with a little brio and imagination, music directors could offer them something fresher and equally palatable? Instead of Zarathustra...
...staging an imaginative Sommerfest lasting through Aug. 14 that features all 16 of the composer's works for solo instruments and orchestra. The repertory includes such oddments as the Romance in E-Minor for flute, bassoon and piano and Beethoven's own piano arrangement of his violin concerto...
Croce's condemnations are rigorous and vivid. Of the late modernist Doris Humphrey she writes: "Humphrey was a structuralist who could reduce a Bach concerto to a nest of mixing bowls; the bowls were brown." Of the immensely popular work of the Netherlands Dance Theater's Jiŕi Kylian: "A favorite form of pas de trois is the woman pulled and dragged on a steeplechase course between two men. It stands for rape, for exaltation...
...Director Robert Herman, the operating head of the festival, had to switch to another new Williams work, A House Not Meant to Stand, which had already been seen in Chicago. Peter Evans, a Miami playwright, withdrew altogether. Menotti, who had been paid $10,000 to write his Second Piano Concerto, said he could not finish it in time and would regretfully return the money. The Pops-by-the-Bay concerts also had to be canceled when the Florida Philharmonic went on strike...