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...Repertory Wind Ensemble. Michael Walters conducts program of Mozart, Gabrieli, Holst and others at 8:30 p.m. in Jordan Hall, Boston. Free...
Wind Ensemble Concert: Music by Holst, Karl King. Wayne Schneider, conductor. Eliot House dining Room...
Brandenburg Party--an open sight-reading of Holst's St. Paul Suite. Bach's Fifth Brandenburg, and Mozart's Eine Kieine Nachtmusik; Dunster Library...
...easy to dismiss the style as distilled Mendelssohn. This would be wrong for there is an individuality of expression quite apart from some (admittedly) marked similarities. The eclecticism of Sullivan was a legitimate transition from the German roots of Mendelssohn to the more progressive and experimental styles of Holst, Vaughan Williams, and Howells...
...band's playing reached its peak in the eclectic final work. Karel Husa's "Music for Prague 1968." Husa, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Music, borrows whoel motifs from both Bartok and Holst, but draws most heavily on an old Czech song which Smetana, the fervently nationalistic 19th century Czech composer, dramatized in his massive Ma Vlast. Clear playing brought out the wide-ranging passions which inspired the work, both the mournful and the chauvinistic...