Word: forli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A small brass and wind ensemble (augmented by a lone bass viol) had far greater problems to overcome in Varese's Octandre, composed in 1924. One of the major difficulties of this score is that it depends for its effect almost entirely on subtle variations of volume and orchestration for...
Just as the Roman Catholic Bishops of the United States have cost the Senator votes and embarrassment by the out-of-place birth control issue, so have those who would seem to be his greatest backers cost Kennedy by their silence a chance for a commanding lead.
It was disappointing to see Sanders only half full for the H.R.O.'s Christmas concert of modern music. If the poor attendance was in main due to the fact that the program consisted entirely of works composed in this century, then this speaks ill for Harvard's intelligentsia. Certainly the...
Samuel Barber's Adagio for String Orchestra, the second movement of his String Quartet, Opus 11, which he later reorchestrated, was performed by the entire string section of the H.R.O. This lush work, somewhat trite in its impassioned repetitiousness and a bit too derivative in its handling of thematic material...
The most radical works on the program were not too successful, it is true but, even here, Mr. Senturia is to be heartily congratulated for his determination not only to present them but to present them as well as he did with an undergraduate orchestra. Those who let the program...