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James Walker deserves much of the credit for the precision of the Band's performance. Throughout the concert, his conducting was energetic and exact. Even in the most rhythmically aberrant sections of the Creston, Copland, or Hindemith works, he was able not simply to keep the Band together, but to present the various crossrhythms and syncopations with the utmost clarity...
Harvard has run through Igor Stravinsky, Paul Hindemith, Aaron Copland, and the late Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot and E. E. Cummings. Wesleyan's Center for Advanced Studies has attracted Author Paul Horgan. Some artists become permanent faculty fixtures, such as Yale's Novelist Robert Penn Warren and Minnesota's Poet Allen Tate. Saul Bellow, temporary writer in residence at Chicago, has fit so unobtrusively into the faculty that Coed Barbara Samuels observes: "For us he's the teacher, not the great novelist...
...high point of the evening was the performance of Hindemith's symphony Mathis der Maler, made up of three sections from his rarely performed opera on the life of Grunewald. Intonation is a major problem in Hindemith. Chords follow one another in the most improbable succession; for the results to be intelligible, nearly every chord must be tuned up separately, and the musicians must have rehearsed it enough to remember what those unorthodox progressions sound like. It takes a lot of involvement and intelligence to play Hindemith--it's impossible to bomb through...
...atonal music of Charles Ives, the dancers move through four stages of life against a background of giant flats of pop art-IBM cards, an ice-cream cone, green stamps, comic-strip characters. By contrast, Lucifer is classical ballet, eschewing pantomime and narrative for a more abstract visualization of Hindemith's austere Concert Music for Strings and Brass. After the angels assemble for "a typical day in heaven," Lucifer appears, defiant and strutting, and engages in graceful combat with Archangel Michael, only to be felled by a brilliant ray of white light from above...
...HINDEMITH: KAMMERMUSIK NO. 4 and KURT WEILL: VIOLIN CONCERTO (Westminster). The young Hungarian-born violinist Robert Gerle has chosen some nearly trackless territory to explore, but he is led by that experienced pioneer, Hermann Scherchen. conducting the Vienna Wind Group and other instrumentalists...