Word: grosso
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...green wave of Brazil's Mato Grosso Plateau closed for the last time over the head of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, the famed British explorer. What happened to him then? One guess is as good as another, and the Sunday supplements have made them all. Was he killed by a wild animal? No evidence of that. Is he still held captive in the deep interior by Indians who believe him a god? So one old Indian woman declared a score of years ago. Or was he really murdered by the Kalapalos chieftain who confessed the crime (TIME, April...
Corelli: The Twelve Concerti Grossi, Op. 6 (string orchestra conducted by Dean Eckertsen; Vox, 3 LPs). A rich-voiced tribute to Italian Composer Arcangelo Corelli on the 300th anniversary of his birth. The symphony of its day, the concerto grosso contrasted a massed orchestra with a smaller group of solo instruments-here beautifully played by Violinists Daniel Guilet, Edwin Bachmann and Cellist Frank Miller. The music is vigorous and full of spirited contrasts...
While the Diamond music is occasionally exciting despite its lack of form, Handel's Fourth Concerto Grosso is a piece of soprific craftsmanship. Superficially similar to the Bach Bradenburg Council, it has none of their vitality and immediacy. The orchestra gave it a brisk, smooth run-through...
...prefer a turkey or a duck?" In any event, Bloch was not ready to let the quartet stand alone as the only testament of his 72nd year. After finishing the quartet (in April), he wrote Concerto Grosso No. 2 for Strings and String Quartet (August) a Sinfonia Breve (December) and a brief In Memoriam (also December). At week's end, with an energy that Churchill might applaud, he was off to Rome to hear a revival of his 1910 opera, Macbeth...
...work of the Society and its musical director, Erwin Bodky, has been outstanding in the choice of the music, the authenticity of the performance style, and the general excellence of the performances. Monday's program consisted chiefly of four concertigrossi...two by Corelli, the composer who crystallized the concerto grosso form near the end of the 17 century, and two by Handel who with Bach brought the form to its highest development before it continued its evolution toward the concerto as we know it today...