Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sound is bigger, smoother and surer. Also, the band has developed a group of soloists who can play in front of a big ensemble and still not sound thin and tremulous. Sam Saltostall's humorous trombone and the vigorous saxophones of Watanabe and Errol Burke provided some fine solo work...
...delight every time it is played. This time, I was particularly struck by the alternation between E major and E minor at the beginning of the second movement. The apparent indecision creates a delicious tension which is resolved into E major only when the oboe enters with its lyric solo. Shostakovich never tried such subtleties...
Monk's sidemen traditionally hang back, smiling and relaxed, and apart from an occasional Rouse solo, they seem content to let Monk lead. "That's right, Monk," they seem to be saying, "you tell 'em, baby." But Monk demands that musicians be themselves. "A man's a genius just for looking like himself," he will say. "Play yourself!" With such injunctions in the air, the quartet's performances are uneven. Some nights all four play as though their very lives are at stake; some nights, wanting inspiration, all four sink without a bubble. But it is part of Monk...
Unlike the only extant recording of the Concerto (also conducted by Kirchner), this performance did not obliterate practically everything but the solo violin and cello. Joseph Silverstein, violin, and Madeline Foley, cello, and the other instrumentalists, members of the Boston Symphony, sounded clearly and, thanks to Kirchner's careful direction, at the right times...
Kirchner really triumphed, however, in conducting Les Noces. In addition to a select chorus of Harvard and Radcliffe singers, he had an expert solo vocal quartet--Beverly Sills, Eunice Alberts, James Miller, and John--and an extraordinarily impressive team of pianists: Luise Vosgerchian, Laurence Berman, Ursula Oppens, and Geoffrey Hellman. Together, they solved the problems of Les Noces, which are primarily rhythmical...