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...fragmented, transposed and otherwise manipulated so that lines recall Oedipus Rex and the Canticum instead of Schoenberg. The rhythm and scoring is all Stravinksy; in particular the reserved, consciously archaic Stravinksy of the past few years; more reflective, less apparently expressive than, say, Krenek's twelve-tone setting of Jeremiah, also deliberately archaic...
...knew it was coming: the direction of the wind could be ascertained in 192, with the inversions and retrogrades of the Cantata; then real twelve-tone sections appeared in Canticum Sacrum and Agon: then came Threni ("Threnodies"), a long (for Stravinsky) setting of texts from the Vulgate Lamentations of Jeremiah. Nor was it hard to predict that this piece would sound like Stravinsky, and not like the Viennese, the young serialists, or anybody else. I did find one or two places which reminded me that Stravinksy has been studying Webern (curiously, one of these, the Invocavi, but that...
...Washington, D.C. 62 Weihenmayer, E.A. III '62 19 6:0 188 Jenkintown, Pa. CENTERS 56 Colyer, John H. '62 19 6:1 180 Oneonta, N.Y. 57 Eckfeldt, Richard H. '61 20 6:1 195 Paoli, Pa. 59 Kirn, Walter N. '60 21 6:1 195 Akron, Ohio 52 Sullivan, Jeremiah M. '61 20 6:0 211 Old Orchard Beach, Me. 54 Szvetecz, Frank C. '60 21 6:0 204 Bethlehem, Pa. 53 Van Dervoort, R.L. Jr. '62 19 6:0 198 Lincoln, Neb. BACKS 29 Carlin, Philip E. '62 18 5:11 197 Columbus, Ohio 23 Cullen...
...Venice's International Festival of contemporary music last year (TIME, Oct. 6), Stravinsky got his wish. The composer's Threni, id est Lamentationes ]eremiae Prophetae (i.e., Threnody, Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah) is a complex, 33-minute work for six vocal soloists, chorus and full orchestra, and the bass part, ranging from middle B-flat to low E-flat, is the most difficult of all. At Venice, says Conductor Robert Craft, who rehearsed Threni's chorus, the starring role should have been the tenor, "but there was no question that Oliver ran away with all the honors...
...being the lone Jew in a Southern town: "The folks automatically identify him with Jeremiah, Isaiah. Amos, and the Second Coming . . . When the Baptist Sunday School teacher is puzzled by some involved Biblical problems he immediately runs over to Goldstein's to get the information, right from the original source . . . Poor Goldstein; with the bottom falling out of the textile machinery market, this fellow keeps worrying him about the Ark of the Covenant...