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...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...
Central Brazil is a vast green wedge of almost unexplored land. Seventeenth-century Portuguese explorers staggered out of its jungles bringing tales of a great lost City of Gold in a Garden of Eden. Plunging into the trackless Mato Grosso (Thick Forest), such 20th century big-game hunters as Theodore Roosevelt and Alexander ("Tiger Man") Siemel encountered jaguars hardly smaller than the fiercest tigers of Bengal. Nine years ago, out to win the 116,000 square miles of this wild Brazilian west. President Getulio Vargas set up the government-financed Central Brazil Foundation and ordered: "Conquer the wilderness. Colonize...
...created two new towns along its pioneer highway. Aragarças (pop. 2,000) has new houses for road workers, a school for 350 children, a 70-bed hospital, sawmill, machine shop and brick factory. Chavantina (pop. 300), a cluster of brick huts, lies even deeper in the Mato Grosso, on the banks of the Rio das Mortes (River of Deaths) and near the hunting grounds of the fierce Chavante Indians...
...transcription of Vivaldi's Concerto Grosso in D minor proved disappointing. I have always felt that an orchestral arrangement of chamber music should utilize the full orchestral sonorities. If the arrangement is merely an attempt to approximate the original sound of the piece, we have a right to ask for the original instrumentation instead. A transcription, I believe, is valid only if it expresses the music in a new way. Thursday's rendition failed because it was little more than a muddy caricature of the real thing. The performance, however, was reasonably good. Stanger's directing lacked excitement because...