Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elaine (Percy Faith's orchestra with oboe solo by Mitch Miller; Columbia, also Hugo Winterhalter's orchestra with musette-accordion solo by Henri Rene; Victor). One of those bittersweet tunes from a French movie (Violettes Imperiales), on which both companies lavished top performers. The Columbia version has Miller's familiar buttery oboe tone; Victor presents Winterhalter in one of his loud moods, with plenty of braying horns...
...village green. Blond ballerinas danced freely, often just on their toes, rather than always formally on pointes. The performances depended almost as much on mimicry as on footwork. There was none of the tense, hushed atmosphere of the Russian ballet, with its emphasis on the technically difficult solo and pas de deux...
Though women attending the convention were only allowed to pray from the sidelines, they were invited on to the floor during the social get-together. Dabkah (folk-dancing) shared popularity with a unique money-raising device known as the Raqsa. Originally a wedding dance done solo by a young woman, Toledo's Raqsa was a sinuous, shoulder-shaking affair which whirled to a stop with arms hopefully extended for cash. Delegates found this a pleasant way to part with about $1,000 during the three-day convention...
Khachaturian: Cello Concerto (Sviatoslav Knushevitsky; the U.S.S.R. State Orchestra conducted by Alexander Gauk; Vanguard). Written in 1946, this score could almost have been composed a half-century earlier. Khachaturian, a cellist himself, lets the solo instrument sing in a flowing, melancholy tenor. Performance: excellent...
...Haydn songs were gems. Works of his maturity, they are joyous without being flippant, poignant yet optimistic. The first of the two sets of Brahms waltzes is the more widely known, perhaps because it has fewer solo passages and thus is more often performed by choruses; perhaps also because it maintains a gayer, more spontaneous mood than the second set, composed five years later. It is this second set, however, which left the more profound impression. Its gloomy, anguished texts convey a dramatic unity not present in the other and the musical treatment is appropriately more intense. Although...