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...Choreographer Balanchine, it was the fourth premiere in an amazing nine-week stretch. The first was Square Dance, a whimsical leap between cultures. To the chamber music of Corelli and Vivaldi and the cadenced commands of Square Dance Caller Elisha C. Keeler, dancers executed the disciplined, classic patterns that Balanchine has made a trademark. The mixture was unlikely, but when Keeler had twanged out his last call ("That is all; the dance is ended/ The music is finished; the caller's winded''), audiences cheered the blend of do-si-do and pas de deux...
Temporarily belying its name, the group never-theless chose a program of three masterpieces, all of which were fairly well known but by no means hackneyed. For the G-minor Concerto grosso from Corelli's Opus 6, Senturia used a well-balanced ensemble of seventeen string players plus harpsichord. The group played with guts and gusto, though never forcing the tone. The precision was admirable and the intonation astonishingly accurate. But why, Mr. Senturia, did you decide to omit the final flowing pastorale movement...
...Corelli--Concerti Grossi Opus 6 (complete...
...first great exponent of a form that was to inspire Bach, Vivaldi, and Handel, Corelli was to set the style for years to come for the Concerto Grosso. Yet, like all great composers, Corelli avoided a dogmatic conception of musical form, and within the twelve concerti of Opus 6 there are twelve different variations on the general slow-fast-slow-fast and fast-slow-fast shapes. Quadri elicits a lovely shimmering string tone from the English Baroque Orchestra. (Westminster...
...orchestra's dampened debut before France's TV watchers was a cloud-high point of a seven-week European tour that had already won raves in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and England. As the French cameras blinked on, Conductor Sirpo led the girls through a solemn, contemplative Corelli air, a Vivaldi piece (with violin solo by tall, blonde Claire Hodgkins), some modern variations by Alexander Tansman and an allegro by Stamitz. They played with fire and discipline that astonished their listeners-and played everything without a sheet of music. When they had done, the TV crew crowded around...