Word: ops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members who refused to hold the line. One of the ousted is San Francisco's Nicholas Daphne, one of the city's most successful funeral directors. Daphne had discarded the association's "suggested" rock-bottom funeral price of $450, had agreed to handle a Berkeley co-op's business for $210 including embalming...
Malcolm Arnold: Guitar Concerto, Op. 67 (Julian Bream, guitarist, with the Melos Ensemble; RCA Victor). A haunting, fantasy-ridden score by the composer of Tarn O'Shanter and The Bridge on the River Kwai that gives the guitar a chance to sing, emote, or simply brood, as it rarely can elsewhere. Britain's Bream knows the instrument's moods as surely as any guitarist now playing...
...concert opened with the delayed World Premiere of Junior Fellow David Lewin's Essay on a Subject of Webern for chamber orchestra. The work is derived from the second of Webern's Op. 28 string quartet; but its material is wholly original--the melodic declaration often seems closer to the manner of Arnold Schoenberg. Mr. Lewin has employed considerable economy in composition, and the piece is concise, clear and very pleasing; the wind writing, in particular, shows considerable delicacy and precision. Mr. Senturia and his orchestra brought to the work the same assurance and competence that marked the entire program...
Quartets by Schubert and Haydn rounded out the program. The Schubert work, a posthumous publication in G minor, is an aggressive and sometimes rowdy piece; the group was sensitive to its contrasts and usually maintained good balance. The weakest moments of the evening came in the Haydn quartet (Op. 77, No. 2), where alower tempos brought rather tentative playing and weaker tone. The modern work was both the best performed and most interesting work of the concert...
...PAPERS op BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, VOL. Ill (513 pp.)-Editor, Leonard W. Labaree-Yale University Press...