Word: hindesmith
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Music-minded Tucson, which turned out 2,400 strong, liked what it heard. Composer Kay is modern, as befits a onetime student of Composer Paul Hindesmith−but modern in thoroughly listenable fashion, as befits a man who has played saxophone and piccolo in a Navy band and has written a successful film score (for The Quiet One). Of New Horizons started and ended with plenty of brass, but in the middle it made appealing use of melodic interweavings in the strings. And though Composer Kay's melody kept getting interrupted by conflicting ideas, it also kept coming back...
...program with the singers will be two-piano pieces by Darius Milhaud and Theodore Chanler and the four-hand sonata by Hindesmith, while the group will conclude the concert with the first American presentation of the cantata "Secheresses" by Francis Poulenc...
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