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Controlled Chance. The Concerto consisted of three movements, actually written down for the orchestra by different members of the ensemble and "edited" by Foss. The music was rather faceless-tricked out with a full Modern Composer's Kit of dissonances, rhythmic angularities, splashy climaxes. Against this background, Foss and the ensemble worked out their improvisations. It was in the Intermezzo, when the orchestra was silent, that Foss's technique of "controlled chance" came into fullest play. The Foss ensemble was free to improvise -and it did, with some highly interesting results. The instruments traded themes, stitched their...
...cannot quite understand the reticence of other orchestras to take up the short, light work. Everything that was first rate about the Bach Society's handling of the other pieces on the program was evident here in even greater abundance. Their marvellous tone, perfect, balance and phrasing, and rhythmic and technical assurance all gave Professor Piston reason to beam while he bowed with Mr. Lazar at the Serenata's conclusion...
...thing about Berenson is that he communicates his pleasure so vividly. As a prose stylist, he approaches the great aestheticians of the past--Burke, Reynolds, Ruskin. He has the perfect control of a balanced sentence and a splendidly colorful use of words; in short, he is a master of rhythmic evocative prose...
...Midway through the women's 200-meter breaststroke, Britain's leggy Anita Longsbrough, 19, turned on a rhythmic sweeping stroke that slowly overcame the 5-meter lead of West Germany's husky Wiltrud Urselmann, 18, brought her gliding home a winner in 2:49.5 to set both an Olympic record (by 2.5 sec.) and a world record...
...balletic exuberance of Bernstein or the smooth elegance of Sir Adrian Boult or the icily imperious quality of Reiner. Nor are his performances flamboyantly colored: where Beecham's Mozart tends to be effusively loving, Davis' is simple end unaffected. He combines grace with precision, gravity with rhythmic bite...