Word: elgar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto with Anthony Pini as soloist and "The Dance of the Seven Veils" from "Salome" by Richard Strauss finished the program. Mr. Pini is an unusually fine cellist and his mastery of Elgar's Concerto was evident from the first note, but the work itself is so mediocre compared to the others on the program it deserves little comment. The "dance of the Seven Veils," on the other hand, is intensely dramatic and the Royal Philharmonic gave it everything...
...mixture may look higgledy-piggledy at first glance: in England, for example, Eliot believes that culture includes "Derby Day . . . dog races . . . the dart board . . . boiled cabbage cut into sections . . . the music of Elgar." It also includes the English bishop's characteristic gaiters-in fact, religion and culture tend to become so intertwined that bishops appear to be "a part of English culture, and horses and dogs ... a part of English religion...
Harsh & Helpless. When Britten finally got the surging dissonances and powerful choruses of Peter Grimes on paper, England had its biggest homegrown musical event since the Edwardian era triumphs of Sir Edward Elgar. The London Times pronounced Peter Grimes "a great opera ... its success is deserved and inevitable...
...Summer Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances, Strauss's love scene from Feuers-not, Handel-Elgar's Overture in D Minor, the Andante Cantabile from Tchaikovsky's String Quartet in D Major. Conductor: Frank Black...
...Symphony (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Elgar's Cockaigne Overture, Prokofiev's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3, Sibelius' Symphony No. 1. Conductor: Anthony Collins...