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Conductor Richard Burgin reserved the humor for the end, probably quite unwittingly. Anyone familiar with Brahms' superb piano quartet could not help but be wary of a Schoenberg orchestration calling for two flutes, a piccolo, three oboes, five clarinets, four bassoons, full brass, timpani, snare drum, bass drum, eymbals, triangle, tambourine, Glockenspiel, xylophone, and strings. At the very best, these extra instruments were entirely superfluous to Brahms' musical intentions. At the worst, which was most of the time, they sounded like something Richard Strauss would have reconsidered even in his most beery moments. The percussion thumped, whanged, crashed, and tinkled...
...Will, Karl L. Zener, and David S. Feingold, clarinets; Charles S. Lipson, Murray K. Rosenthal, and Richard A. Bohannon, trumpets; Richard C. Hermann and Peter D. Hardy, trombones; Frederick L. Hall, tuba; Stewart G. Levine, French horn; Theodore H. Johnson, baritone horn; Quincy A. Sanders, saxaphone; Peter Strauss, piccolo; and Cacciotti, conductor...
...Guido Turchi, 34, follows a more conservative line ("I detest exclusiveness and dogma"), relies on fine craftsmanship and simplicity more than experimentation. His mild-mannered Piccolo Concerto, with its pensive string passages and brilliant tone colors, was the easiest to listen to of the three new works...
...nickel in the piccolo!" cried one of the fishermen. Thereupon, following their song leader, they broke into a high, happy chantey. The Bendix men had never heard anything quite like it before...
...serious side, Pierian's 19th century exploits were not quite as noteworthy. Its members were famed for their prowess with the pot much more than with the Piccolo. Minutes of many during this "primitive" period read: "The Sodality met, practised, liquored, and adjourned...