Word: musicale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First on the program was the Quintet for 2 Violins, 2 violas and cello (1958) of Roger Sessions. The work is in three movements, nominally conforming to the standard fast-slow-fast alternation of classical sonatas. The first ("Movimento tranquillo") seemed to be written for violin solo with string accompaniment...
The star of the film is clearly the chorus; and the whole production seems to be organized around the chorus as a focal core. They sing beautifully together and are right on pitch. Violet Teass wrote the fine choral chants. And Henry Hallstrom's extensive musical score, played by 21...
What makes this Trojan Women such good tragedy is that it shows off passion without self-consciousness, and we extend our sympathy to meet it half way. It uses a passionate form of music, rock and roll, so naturally and so well that it may be that long-awaited theatrical...
PLAYHOUSE IN THE PARK, Cincinnati, Ohio, will have Belgian Playwright Michel de Ghelderode's Escurial until July 29, followed by Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, Aug. 3-26, and then Anatol, a musical by Tom Jones, Aug. 31-Sept. 23.
This week the publication of a revised and expanded version of his 1956 book, The Listener's Musical Companion, shows that Haggin, at 66, is as snappish as ever.* "Accepted opinion finds greatness in every note set down on paper by a great composer like Bach or Mozart," he...