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Mandelbaum's Flute Sonata received the outstanding performance of the evening. Suzanne Heckman and accompanist Ann Besser played with warmth and ease. The third movement, a gay vivace, received an especially spirited reading. The music itself is essentially jyrical, without being discursive. The composer's style is contemporary but not...
The curtains pulled back on a curious scene. The stage was split by two large pillars; on either side stood a robed and hooded chorus of commentators, eerie in green and violet light. The action took place on a center stage created between the pillars, and much of it was...
The pair then played Mr. Sapp's own Concertino, dedicated to Walter Piston (who supplied the theme of the second movement.) This work, commissioned by Town Hall, has already been played in France and Germany, and last night marked its second local performance. Mr. Sapp, who is now teaching Music...
But Pound's essay is more than the customary diatribe by a self-exiled literary rebel against America's cultural bourgeoisie. Years before he turned renegade to his nation to back Fascism, Pound had a profound sense of America's vigor and promise. He could sound paternally...
Other illustrations in the book show that some men acquire ulcers largely as a result of inner and outward conflicts-e.g., the dissonant (neurotic) personality. The man whose ulcers are thrust upon him may be driven by the sharp pressure of outside events, such as a fall in the...