Word: passacaglias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very beginning of the great Fourth Symphony, the conductor proved himself a master of nuance, varying his tempos flexibly. The tragic Andante moderato, with its famous Phrygian modality, was a gem. Opening furiously, the third movement, Allegro giocoso, joked only in its use of the triangle. The concluding Passacaglia, Allegro energico e passionato, was just that...
...could play the quirky rhythms of Ellis' arrangements, or even tap their feet to them, were hard to come by. Eventually, he lined up a group, which today includes teachers, studio men, students and one lawyer, that could feel at home with everything from a quasi-classical passacaglia and fugue to raga time. After months of rehearsals, he brought in a score in 3⅔ time, and the band read it at sight. "That was the turning point," recalls Ellis. "The time barrier had been broken...
Virgil Fox Plays the Philharmonic Hall Organ (Command). In baroque, romantic and modern music - Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, Franck's Grande Piece Symphonique and Messiaen's Dieu Parmi Nous-Fox puts Manhattan's first fine concert organ through its paces for a disk debut. A staggering volume and variety of sound and with it, music of a high order...
...from an unsuccessful ballet which Hindemith began in 1919 on a commission from Diaghilev. The ballet lay unfinished after the death of Diaghilev until Hindemith completed it with Massine in 1937; the ballet failed a year later. The three movements of the present are all typified by the concluding Passacaglia, which consists of nineteen variations on a six-measure theme. Here Hindemith blurs the distinction between economy of musical material and paucity of thought; loud brass saying the same thing a dozen or so times hardly titillates the sensibilities...