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...Renaissance music for brass choir, assisted by the chorus of the House Music Society. After the dinner, the Ferrys and guests heard a concert in the Senior Common Room appropriately given over to a complete performance of Brahms' "Love Song Waltzes," Op. 52, for vocal quartet and piano duet. Before the meal, the Ferrys were guests at two receptions in the House...
...playing and singing in the Magnificat were generally of high quality. The vocal soloists, Lee Calder, Dorothy Crawford, Sarah Jane Smith, Thomas Beveridge, and Karl Sorensen all gave musicianly readings of the arias, duet, and trio. At times there was not sufficient balance between soloist and orchestra, as often the result of too soft singing as too loud playing. Dorothy Crawford, in particular, could not seem to muster enough volume. There were also instances of imbalance between chorus and orchestra, caused mainly by the great army of tenors and basses that filled the stage...
...together. He believes that the present methods of fitting dance to music or music to dance, or combining the two by a rough collaboration between composer and choreographer, often produce conflicting feeling between movement and melody. A year or so ago Laderman tried to solve the problem in his Duet for Flute and Dancer by writing the dancer's part into his score as though the dancer were another musical instrument...
...night composing. As he wrote, he began to visualize dance images. Rather than lose them, he improvised dance notations above the musical staff to correspond with the flute solo. Next morning he found that the notations accurately recalled the dance images. He took the score, now titled Duet for Flute and Dancer, to Dancer-Choreographer Jean Erdman, asked that she choreograph...
...concerned by the emotional restrictions placed on her work. At the first rehearsal she read the annotated dance score aloud (da-da-da-da, da-di-da-di) to see how its rhythms keyed with those of the flute. Then she translated the rhythms into movements. The completed Duet, premiered last year, was an elegant, admirably contained piece. Last week's far more complex work, also choreographed by Jean Erdman, was a wittily detailed examination of the love life of a voraciously modern woman and a hesitantly questing male. Leading Dancers Erdman and Donald McKayle defined the amorous counterpoint...