Word: fluting
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...movement, approached those of the demonic Fritz Reiner). If the symphony as a whole seemed to lack a unity of dramatic conception--only the final allegro was convincingly cohesive--individual sections of it were performed with real distinction. The faultless intonation of the orchestra's winds (the first desk flute and clarinet merit special attention), the resounding firmness of the brasses--all these are easily the equal of almost any professional orchestra. The strings were perhaps too eager to glow wtih romantic intensity, or what-ever; at any rate their tone was often thin, harsh, and somewhat forced. This...
...Honegger of the evening is a late and little-known Concerto da Camera for flute, English horn and strings. Unlike the tense and rigid bombast of his earlier works (notably the symphonies and the oratorios), the concerto is a relaxed, graceful, spacious and thoroughly un-neurotic work. The mood is pastoral but placid--suggesting, in Dr. Johnson's phrase, not an unkempt meadow but a well-rolled English lawn...
...CONCERT. The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra will present a concert that includes Junior Fellow David Lewin's Essay on a Theme by Anton Webern, Honegger's Concerto de Camera for Flute and English Horn (with Ellen Friedman '63, Barbara Cohen '63), Brahms' Symphony No.3 in F. Sanders Theatre; 8:30 P.M. Tickets at the Coop, or at the door...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra will present a concert that includes Junior Fellow David Lewin's Essay on a Subject by Anton Webern. Honegger's Concerto da Camera for Flute and English Horn (with Ellen Friedman '63 and Barbara '63), Brahms' Symphony...
...River Kwai, rendered in apocalyptic sound. Viennese-born Composer Ernest Gold, a veteran of two decades of film scoring (On the Beach and The Defiant Ones), knows better than most of his colleagues how to write a mystery in a web of strings and nostalgia in a flute's falling sigh. The film's haunting theme hints of a talent for better things...