Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Composer Shapero contributes a jazz arrangement of a Monteverdi chaconne. Entitled No Green Mountains (a play on Monteverdi's name), it holds its baroque flavor and allows for some intriguing solo-trumpet embroidery on the main theme. Most successful work is Transformation, by Composer Schuller, who is both the first horn player of the Metropolitan Opera and a sometime player in jazz combos. His tautly constructed piece opens with a wistful theme, gradually begins to swing, gives way to free improvisation and a swelling riff in the wind instruments. All the pieces have their fascinating moments, but they seem...
Works to be performed are the Sonata for Oboe and Piano, Sonata for Viola Solo, Opus 25, No. 1, Sonata Violincello Solo, Op. 25, No. 3, Des Todes Tod, Op. 23a, and Die Serenaden...
Some of the finest solo talents in the U.S. turned up for one-night stands: Singers George London, Blanche Thebom, Leontyne Price, Robert McFerrin, Pianist Byron Janis, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Still to come are Pianist Leon Fleisher, Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick, Singers William Warfield, Eleanor Steber, Harry Belafonte. The world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's opera Maria Golovin will take place in Brussels, and some performers from the Newport Jazz Festival will appear. The most cherished scheme of U.S. Performing Arts Coordinator Jean Dalrymple: to find a well-heeled angel who will underwrite a live run of Pajama Game...
...weakest spot in the work is the very end. The Allegro gives every intention of finishing in a rousing climax for all four instruments; but there follow a few more measures, petering out into some harmonics for solo 'cello. This seems a bad miscalculation...
...attend a chamber music concert Sunday morning at 10 a.m., given by the student Berkshire Music Orchestra. That afternoon, Munch will conduct the BSO in a concert of Bartok (Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta), Ravel (second suite from "Daphnis and Chloe") and Tschaikovsky (the Violin Concerto), with violin solo by Zino Francescatti...