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...second opera stage for intimate performances of small-scale works unsuited to a 3,800-seat house, with the dual purpose of providing young artists with wider exposure while attracting audiences not smitten with standard repertory. But lacking a convenient junior theater like Milan's 600-seat Piccolo Scala or Munich's 500-seat Cuvillies Theater, and with no money to build one, the plan lay gathering dust until last spring, when Bing's successor, Göran Gentele, took it up. Gentele's plan to use the Juilliard School Opera Theater fell through...
...Second Brandenburg used to be done as something of a trumpet concerto. Mercifully, this custom has passed; but the instrument's construction--producing a high, searing tone--give the trumpet a dominant role in the piece. Playing the piccolo trumpet. Robert Hazen noticeably tired in the final allegro, missing some high notes altogether and parts from sixteenth-note sequences. In the first movement, though, he was in much better from with a beautifully quiet tone that blended well with flute, oboe, and strings. peter Weiss played oboe unevenly: he was not sensitive to the dynamics of the other players...
...most unusual pieces were the Davies In Nomines. They ranged from the most conservative (scarcely discernible from Purcell's style) to the far more exotic. The fifth one was a screeching duet of violin and clarinet whose tessitura was in no way balanced by the later addition of piccolo. The players maintained a remarkable faithfulness to pitch, extremely difficult in view of the ranges they were forced into. The fourth In Nomine was a beautiful Debussy-like flute and harp duet over viola and cello accompaniment...
...aBalloon, Niven (6) 5- The Defense Never Rests, Bailey with Aronson (4) 6- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Brown (5) 7- The Last Whole Earth Catalog, Porro/a Institute (7) 8- The Show Business Nobody Knows, Wilson 9-Report from Engine Co. 82, Smith (10) 10- Brian Piccolo: A Short Season, Morris...
...Brian Piccolo: A Short Season, Morris...