Word: pulcinella
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite, Scherzo Fantastique, Symphonies of Wind Instruments (Columbia). Wonderfully sharp Stravinsky from another incisive composer-conductor, Pierre Boulez...
...evenings in a church basement. Years of such observation inform Croce's asides about dancers. Of Suzanne Farrell's second performance in Bournonville Divertissements, she writes: "She was less noticeably nervous (she'd stopped bouncing her wrists, an infallible sign)." Of Edward Villella in Pulcinella: "He goes through the piece like a speeding crab, as loose as Groucho." Of Nureyev in Le Corsaire: "At the end ... he slams himself to the floor at the ballerina's feet and yearns upward from the small of his back. No one else does it so well." One is ready...
Favorite chamber works of Ravel and Stravinsky, featuring the Pulcinella Suite and Introduction and Allegro, performed by nine musicians from Music 180. Kirkland...
Stravinsky's Pulcinella arranged for oboes and english horn, and arias from Bach Cantatas; Dunster Library...
...that played last Saturday was heavily weighted against the viola section, both in numbers and in ability. The thread of the music continually got lost; whenever the ball was passed to the violas, they dropped it. The orchestra continued its unpolished performance when it moved on to Stravinsky's Pulcinella Concert Suite. Although the solo work was outstanding, the piece as a whole suffered from ragged entrances and poor intonation...