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BACH: CANTATA NO. 51 (Decca). "Make a joyful noise unto God," sings Soprano Judith Raskin as she proceeds to do so, outshining a trumpet obbligato in a series of brilliant salvos. It is a virtuoso performance of some of Bach's most difficult and florid arias, and Thomas Dunn's Festival Orchestra of New York is almost too unobtrusive...
...lonely public house perches on a dune above the wild coast of Mayo; a flute and pipes keen an eerie obbligato to the complaining of the surf. Into the tavern stumbles a tatterdemalion lad, and to the landlord's daughter he says: "I'd trouble you for a glass of porter, woman of the house. I'm destroyed walking...
...first format Antiphonie contains pairs of lines which can be interchanged, while the Trope is built of obbligato groups which can be variously permuted with each other, and of other groups which can be played or not as the performer pleases...
...were a New London dairy air. The Thais loosened up and then went crazy for John Henry and Springfield Mountain. King Bhumibol could contain himself no longer. He produced his own saxophone and ended the evening noodling away at various Dixieland selections while Buddy Bohn supplied the obbligato. Bohn invited Bhumibol to renounce his throne and hit the road too. Bhumibol paid Buddy's passage to Hong Kong instead...
...obbligato of cheers, applause and feminine squeals of "Vanyusha!", curly-haired Pianist Van Cliburn, 27. put on a triumphant two-night stand in Moscow's Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where he won the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition four years ago. He even got his first piano teacher into the act. Brought onstage by her son, Mrs. Rildia Bee Cliburn, 58, rippled off two warmly applauded pieces. The only clinker of the tour, in fact, was hit by Nikita Khrushchev. Ending a concert attended by the Soviet Premier, the Texas trebler dedicated Chopin's Fantasy in F Minor -'to Nikita...