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...have a new composition rejected by the patrons who commissioned it may seem like one of the worst things that could happen to a composer. But as Vincent Persichetti has discovered, sometimes it is one of the best things. Persichetti, 57, an established middle-of-the-road composer who teaches at Manhattan's Juilliard School, wrote a piece for narrator and orchestra to be performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra at the official Inaugural concert in Washington two weeks...
Want to relax to Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Persichetti, Debussy, and Chopin? Flee to Holmes Hall at 8 p.m. tomorrow for a piano recital. Here Jane Myers perform Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Persichett, Debussy, and Chopin...
...Vincent Persichetti's Masquerade (1966) was the most recently composed and the most colorfully exciting offering. Beginning with a stunning passage for bassoons, saxes, and solo horn, the composition also contains a lovely oboe solo, and an evocative passage for flute, piccolo, and bass drum side. In addition, Persichetti calls for hammer and anvil, four timpani, xylophone, sizzle cymbal, ratchet, marimba sticks on suspended cymbals, and bare hands on snare drum. At the end of the composition, all these returned in a brilliant overall unity...
...rest of the program been as unified and steadily performed as the Persichetti, the evening would have been an unqualified success. But Walker often seemed to substitute rapidity for a clear sense of form. As a result, runs were frequently a struggle for the weakest members of the band, and dynamic levels tended to lack control, particularly in the two fanfares of Clifton Williams (1956) and Alexander Tcherepnin...
...Persichetti's Spring Canata, a setting of four poems by e.e. cummings for women's chorus, was in contrast vivid and lively. Vaughn Williams's In Windsor Forest, the most voluptous piece on the program, was also the best performed. Kay Tolbert's crisp solo in "The Conspiracy" and the chorus' rendition of the dreamy meanderings of the "Wedding Chorus" were perfectly natural and uninhibited. So were the two spirituals at the end of the program; Archie Epps in "Ride on King Jesus" created a lilting pulse that was still with me long after the concert. And in Britten...