Word: rondo
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...cello, on the other hand, frequently could not be heard. On a few rare occasions it could be heard all so much. During the rondo movement of the Sonata G minor and the last movement of the Sonata in A major it went distinctly flat. The general impression created was that Mr. Brown was nowhere near up to the technical standards that the piano was setting. He played too quietly and lacked the precise timing necessary in the fast movements...
...program includes three movements from Haydn's London Symphony, Beethoven's Leanore Overture No. 3, Rondo from Mozart's Bassoon Concerto (Ted Schultz, bassoonist), and Berlioz' Marche Hongroise from the Damnation of Faust...
...orchestra tuned up, "kids swarmed over the stage, inspecting everything from tubas to tympani. But when husky Conductor Ben Swalin rapped his baton for attention, they scrambled to their free seats, got set to listen. Swalin gave them excerpts from Schumann's "Spring" Symphony (No. 1), a Mozart rondo, a serving of Vaughan Williams and Berlioz and a chicken-reel. Before each number, the musicians held up the instruments to be featured so the kids could see them. And when the last chicken was reeled the youngsters hollered for more. So did the grownups at a second concert that...
...first place, he complained in his deposition, Leeds Music Corp.'s spoony adaptation (Summer Moon-TIME, Nov. 3, 1947) of the rondo from his Firebird Suite was "devoid of musical merit" and had "declassed" him. It had also damaged him "morally" to the tune...
...despite its extraordinary beauty, exaggeratedly dolorous. Horowitz, by underplaying it, made it, perhaps, more acceptable to his audience, but thereby failed to get the idea across. Furthermore, his rubato was rather unorthodox and his left hand, at times, too prominent, thus creating the episodic effect of a Classical Rondo, rather than the flowing contimity so typical of Chopin...