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Igor Stravinsky Chamber Works 1911-1954 (Columbia). A representative collection, presumably played as well as possible, since the composer himself is brandishing the baton. At one stylistic extreme is his Septet, which makes use of a method of composition similar to that used by his late rival. Arnold (Twelve-Tone) Schoenberg. At the other extreme are Stravinsky's early songs, orchestrated recently, which, in Marni Nixon's bell-clear soprano, have a childlike charm...
...Natural Seven (Victor LP). A pickup septet, led by Tenorman Al Cohn, plays jazz â la Count Basic in his Kansas City heyday. The music bounces on foam rubber rather than crepe shoes, is muffled rather than raucous, but includes some delightfully piquant ensemble riffs under the trumpet of Joe Newman...
...ANTA (American National Theater and Academy) started an international exchange program (TIME, June 6), several top U.S. artists, e.g., the Metropolitan Opera's Mezzo-Soprano Blanche Thebom and the Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet, have made the trip. Last week Organist E. Power Biggs was exceptionally well received, and a septet of first chair men from the Boston Symphony arrived for joint concerts and some on its own. Next month another group of Russian artists will arrive, but next fall Icelanders expect to hear U.S. Violinist Ruggiero Ricci, Pianist Julius Katchen, Soprano Jennie Tourel...
Thanks to the devoted efforts of Claudio Spies, Instructor in Music, a Harvard audience heard the most recent manifestations of Igor Stravinsky's art-last Sunday evening in a Sanders Theatre concert. An instrumental Septet (1953), the Cantata (1952), and Three Songs from Shakespeare (1953) comprised the program. The quality of performance throughout was superb with the exception of William Hess' tenor; and its strained quality was probably attributable to a cold. Both Mr. Hess and mezzo-soprano Eunice Alberts mastered vocal parts of exceptional difficulty. The modulations of mood and expressiveness which Miss Alberts achieved were striking. The precision...
...concluding selection, Beethoven's Septet in E-Flat, represents its creator in his wittiest and most lyrical vein. While retaining features of the older divertimento (especially in the prominent violin part), it also looks forward to the work of later composers--Mendelssohn must have known the scherzo well. Despite a few lapses in intonation, the performers gave all the energy and sparkle the septet demands, and it brought an appropriately enthusiastic response from the audience...