Word: rondo
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...powerful to be discounted. Throughout he used the twelve-tone scale he learned from Arnold Schönberg, to whom the opera is dedicated. Song forms are woven in so cunningly as not to be obtrusive. A sonata form announces the appearance of Dr. Schön; a rondo suggests his son. The whole orchestra converses gruesomely over one death, lyrically pleads when the composer wanted sympathy for his heroine, strikes an ugly dissonance of shrieking brasses when she is murdered...
...perhaps more ingratiating than at its premier two years ago. It succeeds in accomplishing its intentions with proper buoyancy and Lustigkeit. The concertino is in one movement, opening with a jazzy theme and then passing to a brief slow movement; from a grand splash for the piano, a vigorous rondo, interspersed with a recurrence of the previous themes, concludes the piece. Pianists may rightfully resent the use of the "instrument of the immortals" as a mere bundle of hammers...
...Yorkers who went to Town Hall Monday night thought for a moment that they were being fooled. Programs told them that they would hear a Bach Prelude, the Chromatic Fantasio and Fugue, Beethoven's Pathétique sonata, Mendelssohn's Rondo Capricioso, six Chopin pieces. On the stage was a grand piano with a man-sized keyboard and to play it there appeared a chubby little girl who, if she had not been so self-possessed, would have looked as if she had wandered there by mistake on the way home from a children's party...
...from the Ballet 'Pulcinella' for Small Orchestra" (after Pergolesi) by Stravinsky will follow. "Two Nocturnes" by Debussy, novel selection will be the next offering. Sowerby's "Praivie," Poem for Orchestra will follow. The program will conclude with "Till Eulensptegel's Merry Prauks, after the Old Fashioned Rognish Mauner" in Rondo form, Cp. 28, by Strauss...
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