Word: solo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Braves were too jittery to cope. Burdette and First Baseman Frank Torre messed up two routine infield taps that gave the Yankees a pair of unearned runs in the early going. Catcher Del Crandall failed twice at bat with the bases loaded. It hardly mattered that he struck a solo homer to tie the game in the sixth; pesky Elston Howard promptly untied it with an eighth-inning single, and the Yankees were home...
Menuhin, longtime Bartok specialist, opened the festival with the harsh and complex Sonata for Solo Violin. Menuhin let it be known that he will soon give the world premiere of a newly available early Bartok violin concerto,* which the composer dedicated to the late Hungarian-born violinist Stefi Geyer, with whom he was in love before his first marriage. Budapest audiences reserved their loudest cheers for the Juilliard group, which played Bartok's Third and Sixth quartets, plus works by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, the U.S.'s Walter Piston and Leon Kirchner. The audience yelled so loudly for encores...
...John Gielgud's Shakespeare's Ages of Man is a solo recital of some thirty speeches from the plays and about a dozen sonnets--which are read entire. I suspect that the production was invented as a vehicle for making money...
Threni opens with the chorus singing mournfully over the sighing orchestra, gradually builds to a moving tenor solo, accompanied by the Flügelhorn, to the text, "Behold, O Lord, for I am in distress." In one passage of labyrinthine difficulty the two tenors and two basses sing two separate canons simultaneously. Except for the second section of the third elegy, the tempo is funereal, and throughout the mood is unrelievedly austere. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the piece is that despite the rigidities of the tone-row technique (and for the first time Stravinsky used all twelve tones...
...tell you of the other ones? The squat little man with the crewcut who sold his soul and pen to an Elsie's wall mural for three blue punch cards. Or the intense young man with thinning hair and a changing voice who reads Wallace Stevens to a saxophone solo. Or the boy from the Bronx who writes Spanish poetry...