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Ronald Roseman's oboe playing in Hindemith's Sonata for Oboe and Piano was the best in months. His flawless technique and intelligent phrasing made the Sonata sound perhaps even better than it is. Gilda Hoffman's handling of the tricky piano parts was more than adequate...
...musicians try to schedule at least one Los Angeles "first" for every concert. This sometimes leads them into fairly deep musical waters (e.g., unfamiliar works by Arnold Schoenberg, Paul Hindemith, Anton von Webern). They do not give a hoot for the critics. The Roof's printed programs run a back-page column of critical comments, listed under two headings, "Figs" and "Thistles." Sample thistles on the back page last week: "Dull Roof Concert Dredges Up Bores" (Los Angeles Times); "Within the seven minutes it takes to perform, [a quartet by Webern] is spare, economical, terse and austere, and seven...
...Wells (later Sadler's Wells Ballet) Company as musical director. In later years he became a conductor for the BBC, and a prolific record maker. In Music Ho! (subtitled "A Study of Music in Decline") he took a gloomy view of most modern music, blasted Stravinsky, Hindemith and Schoenberg and derided "musical snobs" who failed to realize that Duke Ellington wrote "the most distinguished popular music since Johann Strauss...
...Paul Weiss and Theodore M. Greene, Yale has built the best philosophy department in the U.S. On the Yale faculty are men like fiery Historian Samuel Flagg Bemis, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner (Pinckney's Treaty; John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy); cherubic Composer Paul Hindemith; Botanist Paul Burkholder, who helped develop chloromycetin; Cleanth Brooks of the New Criticism; and Theologian H. Richard Niebuhr, brother of Reinhold, in the Divinity School...
Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony was one of the orchestra's finest achievements, and their newly-released recording compares quite favorably with the standard Stockowski version. In the Hindemith Concerto, Stanger was not at all bothered by the many complexities of rhythm and harmony which prevail throughout. The same was true of his performance of Piston's Third Symphony. This work, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947, is a tough nut to crack. Although not as cerebral as some of the Harvard professor's other creations, it still provides pitfalls for conductor and listener alike. Nevertheless, Piston himself called...