Word: score
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mines of Sulphur its American premiere and at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Leonard Bernstein led the New York Philharmonic in his Symphony No. 2, which the orchestra had commissioned for its 125th anniversary year. Cinemagoers could also sample Bennett's style in his background score for Far from the Madding Crowd...
From Mistakes, Profit. But brutality is only one side of Bennett's musical style; in his new symphony, and in his film score for John Schlesinger's moody translation of the Hardy novel, Bennett writes with a supple sense of melodic line and quiet, iridescent orchestral color. His Symphony offers the proposition that even at the furthest limits of harmony it is possible to reach a listener with broad melodic lines and ruddy emotionality. Although it speaks the orchestral language with assurance, the Symphony is obviously the work of a man who prefers opera to all other musical...
...Light for the past two years in hotel rooms and airplanes during tours with the quartet. But it has only been since the quartet's last concert in Pittsburgh on Dec. 26 that he has had time to put in a full day's work on the score. Recently it was given its world premiere by a student chorus at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, under Professor Lara Hoggard, in a utility version for organ, percussion, chorus and baritone solo; its first orchestra performance is scheduled by the Cincinnati Symphony late next month...
...Turkey. Even with reduced scoring at the Chapel Hill performance, Brubeck's oratorio attested the composer's solid training as a serious musician, mostly under the eye of the French master Darius Milhaud at Mills College in Oakland, Calif. In twelve extensive, complex vocal movements, it traces a series of meditations on the universality of faith, with textual fragments drawn by Brubeck and his wife lola from the Gospels and Psalms. What little jazz there is in the score is far removed from the usual Brubeck sophistication: it is a more primitive, elemental sort, blended with folk overtones...
Adzope is one of a score of drab, sprawling towns which you pass on the Ivory Coast's main highway north of Abidjan. The West African countryside is absolutely flat, and in the thick coastal forest the town is invisible until a turn in the road brings you into the center. Then suddenly the wall of the trees opens up, and there is a glimpse of long dirt roads, gas station signs and telephone poles, laundry spread out on the grass to dry, and people walking past rows of identical shops stacked with bright plastic washtubs. The reflection...