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Edward Ballantine, associate professor of Music, emeritus, will offer his annual Dunster House piano recital tonight at 7:45 o'clock in the Large Common Room. The concert will be open to all University members. Included on the program are selections by Beethoven, Debussy, Chopin, and Martinu...
...along a briefcase full of surprises. For his first concert, he wrenched the orchestra and three soloists through a jangling, abrasive concerto for harp, harpsichord, piano and strings by Swiss Composer Frank Martin. Last week, he pulled out another new work: the Symphony No. 5 of Czech Composer Bohuslav Martinu. Another surprise: a seldom-heard work by 91-year-old U.S. Expatriate Templeton Strong, who left for Switzerland some 50 years ago in a rage because he couldn't get his music performed at home...
That point is something not quite appreciated by Bohuslav Martinu, whose Sixth String Quartet closed the program, a work also in Romantic tradition. Remarkable musician that he is, Martinu gives us beautiful, Schubertian oscillations, but once again, as in his other works, one craves some positive, extended melodic ideas to superpose on the fine underlying continuity...
...Thursday evening's quartet concert, which features new works by Arnold Schoenberg, Walter Piston, and Bohuslav Martinu written especially for the Symposium, 150 tickets remain of the nearly 500 that were made available yesterday. The concert will be held in Sanders Theatre at 6:15 o'clock...
...Bohuslav Martinu, a Czechoslovak, William Schuman, President of the Juilliard School in New York City, and the Mexican virtuese Carlos Chavez are included among the distinguished musicians invited to make contributions. Martinu with Walter Piston, professor of Music, are composing string quartets for the opening program, and Arnold Schoenberg is preparing a string trio for the occasion...