Word: hindemith
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...singer in an expert per" formance of four songs by Guillaume de Machaut (circa 1300-77). Then he sat down and. listened to the world premiere of his own new work-Motets for Tenor and Piano. Thus in a single evening last week, during the Berlin Festival, Paul Hindemith, 64, got a rare chance to wear all his musical caps-as composer, conductor, musicologist and instrumentalist...
...Hindemith had selected all the music for the concert, which was held in Berlin's Musik-Hochschule concert hall, nicknamed "Hindemith's Bahnhof" because of its modern railroad-station architecture. Included, in addition to Machaut and Hindemith's own work, were five intricate and austere pieces of church music by Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612) arranged for choir, some with instrumental accompaniment. Hindemith, a first-rate conductor, gave them all performances that Die Welt's critic found "almost overpoweringly impressive." Hindemith's own work, musical settings to four long passages from the books of Matthew...
...member Leningrad orchestra, it was the hit of London, which has no first-rate symphony of its own. The oldest orchestra in Russia, it is also Russia's best. Under Conductor Eugene Mravinsky, 57, the orchestra plays a generous number of modern works by composers like Hindemith, Stravinsky, Britten, Copland. In London it played mostly Russian works-although it learned Benjamin Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra in two rehearsals, as the inevitable Soviet good-will gesture...
...AFTERNOON CONCERT--Verdi-Un Ballo in Maschera; Bach-Partita No. 2 for Harpsichord; Hindemith-Die Harmonie der Welt...
...School's 1960 music program will feature Ruth Posselt, violinist, and Luise Vosgerchien, pianist, in a program of four sonatas Monday evening in Sanders Theatre. The 8:30 p.m. recital, which is free and open to the public, will include Faure's Deuxieme Sonata, Bartok's Sonata No. 2, Hindemith's Sonata in D, and Ives' Second Sonata...