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...Cage to the new classic twelve-tone row introduced by the late Arnold Sohoenberg. Last night's concert of New Music was the work of five young European composers whose music, not unexpectedly, conforms to neither of the two extremes. The pieces presented were variously scored for voice, piano, flute, harp, stereo tape and a truly staggering assortment of percussion instruments which included both Chinese blocks and Victorian stained glass. The music and the instruments were often difficult to listen to, and just as often intriguingly interesting...
...music which he may play in any order he chooses. Not having heard the work before, I found it difficult to determine whether the choice of the percussionist, Alain Jacquet, was a felicitous one. Zyklus was followed by Bruno Moderna's Musica su duo dimenzione, a dialogue for flute and stereo tape. The tape inedium offers the composer a chance to shape his sound as he proceeds, and Mr. Moderna's final decisions are quite obviously the result of considerable experimentation. The program opened with the World Premiere of the Bulgarian composer Andre Boucourechliev's Concertants for piano, harp, flute...
Hamilton is perhaps the one drummer around, not excluding Shelly Manne and Buddy Rich, who can make a long solo sound like music. Apparently either the 'cello and flute were flat or someone sabotaged the recording, for the Quintet sounds rather flat. But the solo is typical of Hamilton's best work...
...equal of the greatest." The Vandernoot repertory runs to "Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner, Bartok and the Sacre du Printemps, but not the rest of Stravinsky." A late starter ("I admire people," says he, "who start shivering at the age of three when mother sings false"), Vandernoot first studied the flute, soon found himself slipping off into the woods to conduct an imaginary orchestra of trees with a branch for a baton. While in the Belgian army, he entered the contest for nonprofessional conductors at Besangon, France, and finished next to last. After that he settled down to study conducting...
Second place winner Alex Ogle '62 (flute) of Quincy House will perform Night Sollioquy by Kent Kennan and Suite Modale by Ernest Block with the Orchestra...