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Last year's Lowell House opera, Divertimento, will be the first student-written production ever to appear on television. It will be televised over WGBH-TV, Boston's educational station, on Thursday, Nov. 13, and will feature the original cast...
Anyone who would like to hear an absolutely brilliant opera buffa has a golden opportunity this weekend. For their annual operatic production, the Lowell House Music Society is fortunate to present the premiere of Divertimento by John Perkins '58. Mr. Perkins has succeeded in turning out a work which should take its place among the very best comic operas...
...runs the Peninsula Festival, the Cincinnati Symphony's energetic Conductor Thor Johnson, 44, tries to present "musical experiences that are not included in wintertime concerts anywhere in the world." Audiences heard the 42-man orchestra wheel through freshly performed American music, including the wisecracking, four-movement Divertimento Burlesca by Los Angeles' Benjamin Lees, 32, and the sprightly Three Songs for Bass and Orchestra by Chicago's late Edward Collins. As a counterpoint to such commissioned modern works, Conductor Johnson offered some elegant, rarely performed echoes of the 18th century; the Sinfonia Concertante in E-Flat, by Johann...
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 work. Carl Ruggles' extremely dissonant Angels was written for either string or brass ensemble; the performance here by strings could not equal the extraordinary effect that three trumpets and five trombones can achieve. The concert ended with Daniel Pinkham '44 conducting the combined chorus and orchestra in his new Wedding...
With a tweet, a toot, and an occasional twitter, the New York Wood-wind Quintet will give the second and last of the Holmes Hall Concerts this Sunday at 8 p.m. Included in the program are Beethoven's Quintet in E Flat, Opus 71a and Mozart's Divertimento Number Three...