Word: passacaglias
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...condensed to 15 scenes, shows clearly the teachings of Arnold Schönberg, according to whose ultra doctrine it is enough for music to describe the adventures of themes. With great skill Berg has woven a pattern of absolute forms, in the first act used a Suite and a Passacaglia with 21 variations, in the second a five-movement symphony, in the third a series of inventions. Like Schönberg he used the combination of song and speech which the Germans call sprechstimme. But behind his strict design and his many novel effects (in one scene he introduces...
...effective if halved, with fewer thematic repetitions, or conversely, expanded into a full-length, Neo-Wagnerian opera as Coates first intended to do. Bold or brave was he to introduce his work on the same night with such magna opera as Respighi's orchestration of Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue, Strauss's ghastly, gay, Till Eulenspiegels...
...Handel: Passacaglia (Columbia, $2). A virtuosi duet by Violinist Albert Sammons and Violaist Lionel Tertis...
...lost in the vast open spaces of Carnegie Hall. It had proved far more exciting when it was first given in the small Vanderbilt Theatre last December by the International Composers' Guild. Stokowski's men had greater success with their conductor's stirring arrangement of the sweeping Bach Passacaglia. The Philadelphians ended on that note of grandiose exaltation...
These recitals are all open to the public. The remaining ones of the year will be given on April 25 and May 23 at Appleton Chapel and Andover Chapel respectively. Passacaglia, Frescobaldi Ave Maria, Arcadelt-Liszt Andante, from the Fourth Trio Sonata, Bach Funeral March in A-minor, Grieg "The Last Spring," Grieg "A Summer's Night," McKinley Cantilene, Watling "The Little Shepherd," Debussy Marche Solonnelle, Tembelle