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...Boston Symphony, conducted by Charles Munch, made its Manhattan debut this season with Mario Peragallo's Violin Concerto. The work, by Italy's rising Composer Peragallo (44), won a first prize in Rome's Twentieth-Century Music conference last spring. A slick combination of atonal technique and Puccini-like melody, it kept Violinist Joseph Fuch's fingers flying, pleased musical conservatives more than the radicals...
...Mario Peragallo, 40, has adopted the twelve-tone theories of Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg, insists he tries to make "dodecaphonic music more beautiful. . . restore some forms of cadence and free melody." At Venice last week his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra jogged along with clearly marked rhythms and occasionally almost a melody...
...where Italian music might be heading, the three composers got a hearty welcome. The critic of the conservative Corriere delta Sera labeled Communist Zafred "a more brilliant and enthusiastic Shostakovich, more harmonious and proportioned and . . . more sincere." Turchi's Concerto was "a jewel of balance, reserve and nobility." Peragallo's twelve-tone experiments were "more intelligible and ear pleasing" than most such attempts...
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