Word: holste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Holst's First Suite for Military Band has a few attractive folk tunes but moves along with commonplace ostinatos and harmonies; Clifton Williams' Concertino blusters with some excitement and nothing more. And the empty pomposity of William Latham's Proud Heritage makes one proud of nothing at all. The performances, nonetheless, were clean and the band's sound maintained that peculiar vitality which good wind playing must have...
...Faust, in translation if necessary; at least the First Part, and the Second also in time to come. Both are done in Germany. Yale gave a magnificent performance of Part One in 1949, the bicentenary of Goethe's birth. They made one bad mistake; used a phonograph recording of Holst's The Planets, when they had to hand the rich fare of Faust music, Wagner's Overture, Liszt's Symphony, Berlioz's dramatic oratorio, and Boito's opera Meflstofele...