Word: musicalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Davies should know. He is the music director of the only full-time chamber orchestra in the U.S., the 26-member St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. Under his leadership, the St. Paul brilliantly exemplify the virtues of being middle-size. Their Baroque performances are fleet and supple yet they can muster the muscle of Beethoven and Schubert, avoiding only the more elaborately scored late-19th century works. In modern music they have a scintillating bite and precision. Throughout the repertory, their texture is so transparent that it allows for no slack playing, and there is none...
...occasion requires, the ranks break apart like a set of Chinese boxes. In the course of two recent concerts at Manhattan's Lincoln Center-one devoted to the music of Aaron Copland, the other to works by Joseph and Michael Haydn-they subdivided into such combinations as a piano with string trio and a 13-piece mixed ensemble, besides playing at full strength...
Such flexibility is part of the fun of their performances. A palpable joy in music making pervades everything they do and even comes through on their LPs. One of their best is the Schubert Symphony No. 5 (Sound 80). It is impeccable in its details, and yet it breathes with spontaneity and ardor. Another notable release, on Nonesuch, contains pieces by William Bolcom, including Commedia, one of many works commissioned by the orchestra...
Ironically, for all his cultural chauvinism, Davies, 35, has won his major recognition in Europe. He has been a guest conductor with the Berlin Philharmonic and the Bayreuth Festival, and in the fall of 1980 he will leave St. Paul to take up an appointment as music director of the Stuttgart Opera...
...watched HBO programs until January, when Teleprompter bought half of Showtime and switched from HBO's service to Showtime's on all Teleprompter cable systems. Showtime does not offer sports; it concentrates on movies and entertainment specials, many for an older audience attuned to country and western music. But it is trying more adventurous approaches too. In March it treated viewers to a peek at the topless chorus girls of the Folies Bergere in Paris (a similar show had been on HBO earlier). Its other offerings have included What's Up, America?, a magazine-type show taking...