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...pianists, Ann Beser '55, will play a concerto written especially for her by M. Joel Mandelbaum...
...Club presentation. It seems to me that in certain instances the audience could have expected a higher standard of performance than it was given. It is hard enough to gain a clear impression of a modern work at first hearing and a faulty performance makes it virtually impossible. Joel Mandelbaum's songs were given a wholly inadequate performance and the Sonata of Peter Westergaard suffered from a listless rendition of the violin part...
...songs I thought Mr. Mandelbaum's settings of Psalms Nos. 139 and 140 for mezzo-soprano and cello showed the greatest freedom in the handling of a vocal line. He took excellent advantage of these highly dramatic texts and displayed an appropriate variety of moods while maintaining a stylistic unity with in the pair. Mr. Feder's settings showed a greater simplicity, more of a desire to render the texts than to interpret them. Yet his songs were to from colorless, I especially enjoyed the mock heroic piano recite after the Found liner. "And I would rather have my sweet...
Stuart Feder '52, Joel Mandelbaum '55, Paul Des Marias '51, Peter Westergaard '53, and Phebe Wood of the Peabody Conservatory, contribute pieces to the concert. Paul Des Marais, Stuart Feder, and Phebe Wood also assist in the orchestration of their compositions...
...special intermission feature, Professor Copland, Mr. Middleton and Mr. Sapp discussed these works candidly, directing all their comments at the composers themselves. Davison, Mandelbaum, and Wyner either defended themselves or accepted the criticisms: bad instrumentation, over-length, and so on. The discussion built up the rapport so often lacking between composer and listener...