Word: roussel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still, Munch is a perfectionist. The string session had to play a passage from Roussel's Ballet Suite Le Festin de L'Araignee four times before it attained the precise dynamic contrast Munch wanted. Otherwise, the orchestra got through the rather dull score without mishap...
Play together they did. In their first appearance at Paris' international Festival of the Arts, they offered modern French (Roussel, Honegger) and American (Barber, Piston) music, and left the audience (including President Auriol) shouting itself hoarse. In courtly appreciation, the orchestra and Conductor Munch broke a long-standing symphonic rule and played an encore. Two nights later came the success of Monteux, Stravinsky and The Rite of Spring...
Last week's program started off with Trio for flute, viola and cello by 20th Century French Composer Albert Roussel, continued with a Bach sonata for the solo flute, and finished with English Composer William Walton's Facade, scored for seven instruments and a poetry reciter (Actress Jane Wyatt reading Edith Sitwell). The program noted with pride that Facade (composed in 1922) was getting its Los Angeles premiere...
When he is not touring, Szigeti lives quietly with his wife Wanda in Palos Verdes, Calif. He is just as eager to discover new music as he was in the '20s, when he introduced such works as Prokofiev's Concerto No. 1 and Roussel's Second Sonata and was soundly rebuked by many critics at the time. He is just as eager to discover new old music, for that matter. "Nothing would please me more than to find a lost Mendelssohn sonata," says Violinist Szigeti. "Digging into the remote corners of music keeps one bright and shiny...
Included in the program are Handel's suite from the music for the Royal Fireworks; Prelude, Fugue and Postlude, by Honegger; Bacchus at Ariane, from Roussel's Ballot Second Suite, Opus 43; and Beethoven's Symphony Number Three in E-flat major, the Eroica, Opus Number Five...