Word: solo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...solo performances are planned for the weekend. Byron Janis will perform Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto and Zino Francescatti will be soloist in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto...
...played by members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Richard Burgin. On the Festival stage 13 wind-players performed Mozart's Serenade in B-flat (K. 361). The performance went fairly well, but showed several signs of insufficient rehearsal (in the first minuet, the bassoonist even played his entire solo one bar ahead of everyone else...
...other ones? The squat little man with the crew-cut who sold his soul and pen to an Elsie's wall mural fo three blue punch cards. Or the intense young man with thinning hair and a changing voice who reads Wallace Stevens to a saxaphone solo. Or the boy from the Bronx who writes Spanish poetry...
...three operas." The melodic beauties are there in full measure, as this first recording of Le Comte demonstrates, but linked together they constitute not three operas but a splintered fragment of one. The work has some rich ensemble climaxes and some rippling solo parts, but after one and a half acts of inspired buffoonery about a predatory count and a lovesick countess, the opera degenerates into a downhill scramble toward a baldly telescoped ending. The sporadically brilliant music gets an adequate performance from the Glyndebourne crew...
...closing Haydn concerto was perhaps the finest musical performance of the year. The solo part is very flashy, with half the first movement written high on the fingerboard, and most of the last in difficult figuration. Forbes, who is a very suave cellist, played with impeccable taste and an overwhelming charm...