Word: counterpoints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...English Department had a book budget of only $600 a year, and the law library had only $8,000 compared to the University of Virginia's $23,000. The association's summary of the music library: "Dictionaries-poor; History of Music-unsatisfactory; Theory-unsatisfactory; Musical Form-poor; Counterpoint-poor; Biographies-poor; Music Education-satisfactory; Magazines-professional (3), scholarly type (none) ..." Ds & Fs. Of all parts of the university, however, none got such a beating as the athletic program. To make sure that his plant would be the best, President Byrd, who rose to his job after 21 years...
...first of the featured works, a small string orchestra under Norman Shapiro's direction performed Purcell's Fantasia on One Note. The novelty of this work lies in the "one note"-C-sustained throughout. All the harmony and counterpoint revolve about this tonal pivot, and it is a tribute to Purcell's genius that the technical tour-de-force never overshadows melodic beauty and expressiveness. Mr. Shapiro's treatment, however, seemed a bit heavy-handed and the players assigned the persistent C could not quite agree on its pitch...
...asset is his sense of musical balance and proportion. Scoring for three equal instruments imposes severe demands on such ability, and if Mr. Akustin does not always succeed artistically the pieces are at least short enough to avoid monotony. As in the Modal Canons, his fascination with problems in counterpoint tends to exclude (or avoid) those of expression. But with such technical competence, perhaps he will produce a more personal work in the near future...
...music for "chamber chorus." In a small group, Bach's vocal demands--no matter how great--cannot be conveniently ignored by concentrating purely on massed sound. When the Bach Society Chorus disappointed at all, it did so in technical respects. Conductor Howard Brown clearly brought out individual lines of counterpoint, but the sheer effort required to sing all the notes reasonably in tune resulted in a tone that was often coarse and piercing...
...goof the counterpoint, which we certainly will, playing it for the first time, keep going...