Word: idioms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...chorus and three solo voices, but they are minor roles-he gave neither Romeo nor Juliet a word to sing. The love of Romeo and Juliet was so sublime, he explained, and "its expression so full of danger for the composer that he . . . had recourse to the instrumental idiom, a richer, more varied, less limited language...
...strong work from overture to the final hymn to freedom, and is even gripping in three long narratives by the prisoners against a background of unnerving orchestral fantasy. Over all hangs an eerie, Kafka-like haze that results partly from the use of exotic folk idiom, partly from acoustical theories that led Janacek to dispense with accepted harmonic transitions. Because of its static quality, Aus Einem Totenhaus has had few performances in the opera house. On records it is the score that counts, and the result is well worth a hearing...