Word: partitas
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...Bernstein's brief run-through, the students tried again, and now they brought the piece to life. Satisfied, the visiting professor dropped back to his seat on the floor, extracted a cigarette from a leather case, and listened to a student wind quintet attack Irving Fine's Partita. Halfway through the first movement, Bernstein leaped to his feet again. "Tune up!" he cried. "My God, tune up!" While the musicians trembled, he went on: "This piece is whimsical. It's full of surprises. It should be played with energy and bounce." When the quintet failed to pick...
will give an Advent Organ Recital on Sunday, December 10, at 4 p.m. at Harvard-Epworth Church, 1555 Mass. Ave. He will play pieces by Muffat, Brevi. Verschraegen, the Fantasy and Fugue in G Minor by Bach, and the Partita, Wachet auf by Hugo Distler...
Give and Take. There was no gimmickry in his playing either. Bach's Partita in E minor had real flesh and blood...
...expressively around the instrument, his reedy, plangent tone skittered through Chagrin's melodic score like something sprung from the wedding of an oboe with a gypsy fiddle. Last week Adler made one of his rare TV appearances, playing his beguiling transcription of the gavotte from Bach's Partita No. 3 for unaccompanied violin on the Mike Douglas Show. And while the taped program was being shown around the U.S., he was already in Israel, entertaining the troops...
Warmed up by the opening Bach Partita No. 5 (G major), Hellman played Beethoven's Sonata Op. 78 with delightful clarity. This oddly structured little sonata has two movements, both allegro, preceded by four measures of 'adagio cantabile.' The harmonies and motives of these four measures contain the thematic material of the following two movements in embryonic form. Hellman saw to it that those materials flowered. Judging Beethoven's instruction, 'Allegro ma non troppo' aright, he chose a properly delberate tempo, then, at the appropriate spots, took liberties with it. In the second movement, he went beyond the bounds...