Word: persichetti
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concert band's finest showing of the evening came in its execution of the Symphony No. 6 for Band, Opus 86 by Vincent Persichetti. A six-minute commission turned into a four-movement symphony and the work was handled by the group with all the full-bodied color and ensemble of a regular orchestra...
...Persichetti, head of Juilliard's theory department, has woven an intricate piece of pervasive undercurrent themes and harmonies, based on fourth intervals rather than the traditional thirds. The concert band's playing was coordinated; not too restrained and quite fluid. Its mastery of contrasting ominous percussion in the opening Adagio and wild dynamics in the ensuing Allegro was conspicuous. The reflective, nicely sustained passages of the muted brass in the second movement, along with the fine ensemble of the baritone horns' tone color in the Allegretto showed that a concert band can indeed render a sensitive performance of a demanding...
...Concert Band played these provincial folk tunes with singular enthusiasm and sensitivity, although the performance did not quite match that of the Persichetti symphony. The performers showed their versatility in the opening "Normandie," played with gusto, sprightly clashes of brass and a fine ensemble, and in "Bretagne," somber and haunting with a nice, accented contrast of low brass and shrill woodwinds...
Equal polish was apparent in the concluding work of the program Friday night, the light and diverting National Emblem March of E.G. Bagley. As through most of the other parts of the concert, particularly the Persichetti and Milhaud, the Concert Band rose to the full demands of tonal color and concerted playing. The trombones highlighted the instrumentation, and the piece was conveyed rather enjoyably--like the Gabrieli Canzon--with an obvious glee not always suitable in other parts of the concert...
Sharon Zukerman, flute; Alice Norton, harp. Works of J.S. Bach, Kodaly, Donizetti, Persichetti, Berio. Free. Sunday, March...