Word: fugal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With avalanche of musical activities in past week and a half, many overlapping like a fugal stretto, reviewer put in somewhat same position as the Japanese poet given task of composing a seventeen-syllable poem dealing with all of the Eight Views...
...remaining music on the program consisted of items on a smaller scale. John Austin '56 continued his laudable concentration on contrapuntal techniques in his Three Madrigals for flute, violin, 'cello and piano, and Five Fugal Pieces for two violins and viola. These pieces preserved his customary refined, conservative, low-voltage, post-Delius style--except the third of the latter group, which fell back into the style of Austin's teacher, Roy Harris. Even in the Madrigals, the linear emphasis extended to the piano parts, which maintained melodic interest at all times rather than just serving as harmonic background...
...Subtitled Seven Rituals of Music, it moves from a wispy, tender "music for a child asleep" into a too-thunderous "ritual of work," a syncopated "dance and play" movement with a xylophone that sounds as if it were made of china, to a movement of whispering magic and a fugal finale...
...wouldn't want a life free of adversity," said Mrs. Lavina Christensen Fugal. "Our troubles are what make us strong." For Lavina, trouble and adversity have been lifelong companions. As a young girl she wanted more than anything to go to college. But when she won a scholarship to the University of Utah, she could not accept it. Her parents, Danish immigrants, did not have the money to buy her clothes...
...chief novelty of the evening was the premiere of an orchestra Fugue by John Austin, and Eliot House junior. This relatively large-scale work shows continued preoccupation with the problems of counterpoint that he tackled in his smaller Model Canons and Fugal Picces for Three Violins. The result is his most ambitious, yet most personal and communicative piece to date...