Word: monteverdi
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...Kurt Weill's Die Dreigrosch-enoper ("Dee Dry-GROSH-en-oper"), Puccini's Gianni Schicchi ("Johnny SKEE-ky"), Prokofiev's ballet, Chout ("Shoo!"), Conductor Eugen Jochum ("OY-gen YOK-hum"), Pianist Jorge Bo-let ("HOAR-hay Bo-LETT"). Advanced players will discover certain unaccountable omissions: where are Monteverdi's Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda or Composers Karl Heinz Stockhausen and Max Wilhelm Karl Vogrich...
...AFTERNOON CONCERT. Mozart, Don Giovanni Overture; Smetana, Czech polkas and dances; Monteverdi, Ballo delle Ingrate; Schubert, Divertissement a la Hongroise; Stamitz, Sinfonia Concertante in F; Mendelssohn, Quartet 6, opus 44; Poulenc, Aubade; Poot, Octet...
...Music of the Baroque. Survey of styles of composition within the Age of Monteverdi and Bach...
...Callaway set such a high standard with last year's staging of Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos that one critic feared listeners would expect a triumph every time. In fact there have been many triumphs, including standout productions of Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte and Monteverdi's Orfeo. Audience response matched the performances: paid season subscriptions rose from 322 in 1957 to nearly 2,000 this season...
Composer Shapero contributes a jazz arrangement of a Monteverdi chaconne. Entitled No Green Mountains (a play on Monteverdi's name), it holds its baroque flavor and allows for some intriguing solo-trumpet embroidery on the main theme. Most successful work is Transformation, by Composer Schuller, who is both the first horn player of the Metropolitan Opera and a sometime player in jazz combos. His tautly constructed piece opens with a wistful theme, gradually begins to swing, gives way to free improvisation and a swelling riff in the wind instruments. All the pieces have their fascinating moments, but they seem...