Word: dissonante
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After a brilliantly witty commentary, Walter Piston '24, Namburg Professor of Music, conducted his own immaculate "Divertimento for Nine Instruments." Robert Brink was the fine soloist in the first local performance of the revised version of Alan Hovhaness' Concerto No.2 for Violin and String Orchestra, a rather bland neo-modal...
¶ German Composer Werner Egk (rhymes with peck), who at 56 has five other operas behind him (including The Magic Violin, Columbus, Irish Legend), was casting about last year for the makings of a comic opera ("I didn't want to see them leave unhappy") when he reread Gogol...
Kirchner: Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano and Sonata Concertonte for Violin and Piano (Nathan Rubin, George Neikrug, Eudice Shapiro, Leon Kirchner; Epic). Another Fromm-Epic collaboration, this disk displays Brooklyn-born Leon Kirchner, 38, at his ear-bending, brain-taxing best. Relentlessly driving, violently dissonant, Kirchner's Trio...
To jazzmen used to going "way out" on free-swinging improvisations, much of modern symphonic music has long seemed both sterile and inhibited. Composer Howard Brubeck, a college music teacher and brother of Pianist Dave Brubeck, wrote his Dialogues in an effort to un-inhibit things by wedding improvisation with...
At Annapolis, four-star Admiral Arthur Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, last week exhorted graduating midshipmen to avoid making "a fetish of tradition" and to remember always that the Navy, Army and Air Force "must think as a team, work as a team, and, when necessary, fight...