Word: sinfonia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Sinfonia Antartica. Bernard Haitink conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra (Angel; LP only). Many of Ralph Vaughan Williams' nine symphonies evoke a specific place or mood, among them the choral "Sea" Symphony, the matchless "London" Symphony and the gentle "Pastoral" Symphony. Others, like the exquisite Fifth Symphony, quote from the British composer's other works (in this case, the opera The Pilgrim's Progress). His Seventh Symphony, the "Antartica," does both. It began as music for the 1948 movie Scott of the Antarctic, and a few years later was transformed into a five-movement work. However suspect its origins...
...should have researched more before you said, in a round about way, that your town is better. We have hiking in the woods, fishing in Lake Superior, on small lakes and in trout streams. I cross-country ski, and downhill ski. I play in a children's symphony (the Sinfonia), attend recitals, and play in recitals. I go to special advanced science classes and my sister goes to advanced match classes. I have season's tickets to the Duluth-Superior Symphony, and there are plays at UMD, community theater, and the Depot. I play soccer, swim, water-ski, and bike...
...ambitious new production, George Balanchine's Symphonie Concertante (1947). This work has not been performed for 30 years, and survived only because it happened to have been transcribed in Labanotation (a system of symbols for preserving choreography). Symphonie Concertante is a reclaimed treasure. Set to Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat for violin, viola and orchestra, it casts two ballerinas as the solo instruments, the brilliant Gregory as the violin, the mellower Van Hamel as the viola and surrounds them with a corps tracing patterns and recombining in gentle, eloquent classical phrases. Designer Theoni V. Aldredge...