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...musical control." Alas, it was manual control that was lacking when Serebrier stabbed himself through the hand in the midst of his appassionato performance. While blood splattered his white shirt, the wounded conductor went right on directing the 150-member chorus and brass-percussion ensemble in Mexican Composer Rodolfo Halffter's Proclamation for a Poor Easter. "I managed to get a handkerchief out of my pocket during a brief pause in the music," said Serebrier. "I stuffed it into my hand and made a fist and continued that way for another 20 minutes until the finale." After tetanus shots...
...death, most of the orchestration was still incomplete; the rough score entrusted to his sister Maria contained as many as six alternate versions of some scenes. The job of selecting the best versions and of stitching the whole thing together was taken over by Spanish Composer Ernesto Halffter, a onetime pupil. Halffter was confident that he could remain true to the master's "musical tastes and ascetic conceptions...
Falla: La Vida Breve (Victoria de los Angeles, Emilio Paya; Barcelona Opera Symphony conducted by Ernesto Halffter; Victor, 2 LPs). Written when he was nearly 30 (in 1905), this opera was chosen by Composer de Falla himself as his Op. 1. It starts as leisurely as a siesta, builds its tale of faithless love and sudden death (of a broken heart) to a warm climax. Soprano de los Angeles sings like a bird...
...their national folk song with a basic European idiom the modern Spanish school has developed a brilliant style full of highly decorated melodies and dancelike rhythms. . . Selections from Iberia by Albeniz are the only familiar pieces from the modern group, which includes works by Rodriguo, and Rodolpho and Ernesto Halffter...
Also included in the recital will be the 17th century "Tiento" by Padre Juan Cabanillas, two sonatas of the Escorial by Rodolfo Halffter, "Sonatina" by Ernesto Halffter...