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...sung by Licia Albanese and Charles K. L. Davis, Composer Taylor's score, shot through with Debussyan and Wagnerian echoes, still sounded deft, elegant, and admirably welded to the libretto's moods. Except in its ingenious weaving of French folk songs into the dream sequences, the score rarely pretends to be anything other than expert incidental music. But that is enough for Composer-Critic Taylor, who began his career as a piano-roll puncher, vaudeville entertainer and poster artist, is not embarrassed to recall that he narrated Walt Disney's Fantasia, and thinks that U.S. music needs...
Last week's concert displayed the early Riegger in Blue Voyage (1926), a shimmering, almost Debussyan mood piece; the later Riegger in Variations for Violins and Violas (1957), a series of brief, busy, crotchetily rhythmic episodes that exploded in the ear as strangely as a satellite's call; and finally the less flamboyant, middle-ground Riegger in the serene, elegant textures of Canon on a Ground Bass by Henry Purcell (1951). Not included was the work for which Riegger is perhaps best known-his Third Symphony (1947), which won the New York Music Critics' Circle Award...
Andre Jolivet: Concerto for Trumpet, Piano & String Orchestra (Roger Del Motte, Serge Baudo; Champs-Elysees Theatre Orchestra conducted by Ernest Bour; Westminster). Debussyan impressionism and Stravinskyan neoclassicism get taken for a mocking ride in this single movement, but it is not quite so witty in this performance as the composer seems to intend...
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