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...elegiac irony of a world where the last of the wormy, golden apples of Empire were falling from the tree. Yet the essence of Jenkins' war with the world is neither bound to a period nor insularly British. It is essentially a secular tragedy told in the idiom of understatement (which Novelist Powell admits "has its own banality"); there is a pit beneath the parquet floor and the Old School Tie may become a garrote. It needs all his well-tended prose to keep the corpse of nihilism buried in the garden...
...deserved it. For Shostakovich's Op. 99 is a composition that abandons the brooding effects, dark colors and heavy textures of traditional Russian orchestral music and his own brassy idiom for a broader expression that puts him firmly among top 20th century composers. It is a position he has been promising to occupy ever since his Symphony No. i crashed onto the scene in 1926, when he was 19. During the '20s and '30s, his work was notably uneven, as he tried to follow the musical party line. In the early war years -when he made headlines...
...master for the "Pipe Dream" orchestra. Ocko played a series of short pieces with a rich, sweet tone and a great use of violin effects, such as harmonics and double stops. Two of the pieces he played, Adagic and Lullabyc were his own; they were written in the Romantic idiom, showed a pleasant knowledge of melodic style, and surely would be successful in an Hungarian Restaurant...
...Bach Society proved itself equally adept at the Romantic idiom with a flawless performance of Brahms' Screnade in D, a work written very early in the composer's career. The Serenade has a very pleasant pastoral character, using four French horns, but suffers from extreme lengthiness. Backed by such first chair palyers as flutist Cynthia Crain and cellist Stephen McGhee, conductor Greene baum exacted a virtuoso performance from the orchestra. It is a pleasure to have a local group with the ambition and the prowess of the Bach Society...
...20th century. After spending the past year combing dealers' galleries, museums and artists' studios across the U.S., Europe and Latin America, Carnegie Institute Art Director Gordon Bailey Washburn, charged with hand-picking this year's contestants, found only one conclusion possible: "Abstraction continues the chief idiom of the day and, if anything, is gaining ground and popularity...