Word: rzewski
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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David H. Davis 2G won the George Arthur Knight prize and income from the fund for his string quartet. Frederic A. Rzewski '58 received honorable mention in the competition...
...composer here adopted a suitable traditional modality and over-all simplicity, with just a couple of dashes of rhythmic complexity. In one variation he happily gave the theme to the piano with an effective plucked accompaniment in the 'cello. In places, however, Beveridge's piano writing (like Rzewski's) suffocated the stringed instrument in the lower portion of its range...
Four ambitious large-scale works were included on the program. The main problems here for the incipient composer are over-all form and stylistic consistency, plus the special difficulties involved in writing a slow movement (which often trips up even the best-established composers). Frederic Rzewski '58's Sonata for Violin and Piano was most successful in the fast outer movements. The first movement, in a modified sonata-form with a bit too much stop-and-go, adopted a Bartokian brutality and approach to dissonance; and the finale dared to end softly with an effective pizzicato and staccato section. Rzewski...
...concert featuring the music of five contemporary University composers will be given in Paine Hall tonight at 8:30. The program will include works by John B. Austin '56, John W. MacI. Perkins '57, Frederic A. Rzewski '58, Christian G. Wolff '55, and Victor Yellin, teaching fellow in Music...