Word: rzewski
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Serialists deal in extremes, and so, opposed to the pianissimos and silences of Wolff was a gusty piano piece by Frederick Rzewski, a remarkable fortissimo rush of runs, heavy chords and long trills in Rzewski's rather personal style. There is little nontechnical description one can give about such a work, except that it confirmed the impression of force and individuality made by Rzewski's earlier pieces last year. William Wilder's Duo for String Quartet, another example of minimal performance instructions did not quite come off, perhaps because the players did not take full advantage of the near-complete...
...concert closed with Webern, as many serialist concerts do; in this case the Three Small Pieces, Opus 11, superbly performed by Judith Davidoff and Rzewski. As usual, Webern made his successors seem rather tentative and shapeless (the exception was Mr. Rzewski's vastly self-assured piece), but he did not detract from their clear achievements, largely in the matters of color and dynamic subtlety. Whether or not the structural question has been answered is problematical. Wolff and others say that sense of direction should not necessarily be looked for in this music, that many works ought to be regarded...
Jerry W. Brown, Benjamin J. Cohn, William W. Freehling, John E. Gudeman, Lawrence M. Hartmann, James R. Lehrich, Eugene Lew, John Mendelsohn, Robert A. Meyers, John F. Post, Michael L. Rappaport, Frederick A. Rzewski, and Thomas K. Schwabacher were elected from Dunster House...
...this all. Wolff along with Frederic Rzewski '58 then appeared as composer-performers in an Invention for Two Pianos (Mar. 27, 1957, 9:15-9:25 p.m.). They each put a sheet of paper with some jottings on the rack and proceeded to punch out a random series of notes vaguely reminiscent of the chicken-pecking school of composition. From time to time they stopped, glared at each other for a while, nodded, and then renewed the assault. I was ready to surrender after the first of these skirmishes. It is a shame that Rzewski, a fine pianist and perhaps...
...Fredrick Rzewski's Two Songs confirmed the initial impression they made in a Lab concert: that they were well constructed and his finest work to date. His earlier Trio, despite some lovely lyricism at times, lacked integration, and was only spasmodically expressive...