Word: duos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...string duo concert will be presented by the Summer School in Sanders Theatre next Monday at 8:30 p.m. Performers will be violinists Sheldon Kurland and 'cellist John...
Doughnuts & Nibbles. And so it went: a baritone-soprano duo, a dramatic monologue by a man who told the stirring story of a 41-year-old doughnut, a book reviewer, a man showing a travel film on Texas. Biggest hit: an obviously talented 17-year-old Korean pianist named Tong II Han, whose fluid performance of Scarlatti and Chopin sent the audience into a dither...
...monastery of El Escorial near Madrid, in the mid-1700s, a young Spanish priest named Antonio Soler used to teach music to His Most Serene Highness the Infante of Spain, Don Gabriel de Borbón. For the Infante's further diversion, Father Soler specially composed six sprightly duo-organ concertos. At their first U.S. performance last week, by Organist E. Power Biggs and Composer-Harpsichordist Daniel Pinkham, the concertos proved just as happily diverting to a modern audience as they must have been in Don Gabriel...
...remarkable fortissimo rush of runs, heavy chords and long trills in Rzewski's rather personal style. There is little nontechnical description one can give about such a work, except that it confirmed the impression of force and individuality made by Rzewski's earlier pieces last year. William Wilder's Duo for String Quartet, another example of minimal performance instructions did not quite come off, perhaps because the players did not take full advantage of the near-complete rhythmical freedom they were given. John Cage's Six Melodies for Violin and Keyboard, which employs only eleven sounds, turned...
...duo-organ recital will also be performed tonight by E. Power Biggs and Daniel R. Pinkham, visiting lecturer on Music, for members of the Busch-Reisinger Museum Association at the Museum...