Word: sinfonia
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...wisecracking, four-movement Divertimento Burlesca by Los Angeles' Benjamin Lees, 32, and the sprightly Three Songs for Bass and Orchestra by Chicago's late Edward Collins. As a counterpoint to such commissioned modern works, Conductor Johnson offered some elegant, rarely performed echoes of the 18th century; the Sinfonia Concertante in E-Flat, by Johann Christian Bach (youngest son of J.S.B.), the Partita in A Major for Viola and Orchestra, by French Composer Louis de Caix d'Hervelois...
...other sounds are the planets"), the work moved with melodic simplicity, derived its main effects from the repetitive. Oriental-sounding accompaniment which has helped to distinguish Hovhaness' output from more technique-tortured works of his contemporaries. ¶J Italian Composer Riccardo Malipiero's 45-minute Sinfonia Cantata was premiered on the same program. A musical evocation of America, the work draws its text from poems in four different languages, all in different ways evoking the New World. Italy's Dino Campana sees classical images that compare the noble Indian savage to Venus, Federico Garcia Lorca...
Slavenski: Sinfonia Orienta...
Slavenski, a Yugoslav, has written a musical history of the world in this Sinfonia. The sections, are labeled "primitive, Hebrew, Moslem, Buddhist, Christian, Free Thought, and Hymn of Toil." Some of the music, such as the "Primitive" section, is really wild. Throughout, the piece shines with the style of Slavenski, incorporating Eastern ideas of melody with western harmonic practices. He has not quite achieved a satisfactory blend, but he makes effective use of pedal points, repetitions, and modality. While Slavenski is long on imagination and short on technique, the record is certainly without equal in its field...
...Chavez. As a young composer he tilted with everything from mechanized music, in his ballet H.P. (horsepower), to severe abstractions, with such names as Polygons and Hexagons, to music for native instruments. Last week Composer Chavez led the New York PhilharmonicSymphony Orchestra in the first U.S. performance of his Sinfonia No. j, which proved to be bluntly modern, enormously powerful and sometimes beautiful...