Word: pampeana
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...contemporary works on Friday's program were neither experimental nor educational. In Pampeana No. 3, Alfredo Ginastera, the well-known Brazilian composer, compiles all the best known motives from travelogues and documentary films; hence the subtitle "a pastoral symphony." Ginastera is without doubt an excellent anthologist; in the second movement of the three movement work, for example, he uses the percussive sonorities of the piano well, and sustains attractively the drive which he establishes. However, menthol-fresh flutes and oh-so-moving woodwind duos run riot in the first and third movements. On his own terms Ginastera is good...
...second contemporary work on the program, Charles Griffes' Poem for flute and orchestra, suffers from overperformance as much as Pampeana suffers from cliches. Griffes (1884-1920), after studying piano and composition in Berlin, taught elementary music in a boy's school near New York; he could compose only during his leisure, though the rapid evolution of his oevre suggests a substantial talent, death from overwork at the age of 36 prevented him from developing a style really his own. Thus the Poem blends impressionistic vagaries, romantic rhapsodies, and mitigated marches into a staple of flautists everywhere...
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