Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Macero's Polaris, a virtuoso piece for French horn and orchestra, which gives the horn a chance to indulge in all the odd wiggles, slides and quirks it is capable of, and Arnell's Concerto Capriccioso, marked by rich string harmonies and a delicate interplay between the solo violin and the winds. Privately financed, the Music-in-the-Making concerts feature question periods during which the audience is invited to quiz the composers. Asked one listener after hearing Polaris: "Was this work written for or against the French horn...
After typing the score at 1 to 1 midway through the first period on a rebound by Bruce Thomas on Dave Morse's shot, the Crimson was never in trouble, as it provided none of the solo breaks that marred its effort against Brown. Clarkson was not without its scoring opportunities, but varsity goalie Bob Bland played a superb game in the nets. Bland occasionally needed help from the left post, but turned away a total of 40 shots, many of the difficult screened variety, in running his personal record to three wins...
...slight man, Mahler wrote giant-sized, tempestuous music that echoes his countryman, Anton Bruckner; on first hearing, a Mahler piece usually sounds like far-out Brahms with Wagnerian delusions. To Mahler, the symphony was the ideal musical form; he composed no chamber music, no music for solo instruments, no small-scaled choral pieces; even his famous song cycle, Das Lied von der Erde, calls for a full orchestra. Of the ten symphonies he wrote, only the First and Fourth are of normal length; the rest run on for as much as 90 minutes and employ vast orchestras. Symphony...
...quest, three pianist-composers had played the work at its premiere in Paris in 1923.* Last week's performance was one of a series of four planned by Columbia Records to display Stravinsky's music. The old man led his forces - in addition to the pianos, four solo singers, a chorus and an assortment of percussion instruments -with a passion and vigor that left his audience breathless. Standing spiderlike on the podium, he raised clenched fists or clawed the air with splayed fingers, setting the hall alive with the violently percussive rhythms, the clipped vocal phrases, the primary...
Handel's Messiah is a little like an intricately carved altarpiece with countless sliding and interchangeable parts. An inveterate improviser, Handel altered the work's solo parts constantly to suit various singers. In addition, the orchestration varied: at times Handel called only for strings, trumpets and drums, but to these he sometimes added oboes, bassoons and horns. After Handel's death (1759), well-wishers by the dozens set to work "modernizing" the Messiah: Mozart added new parts for violins and violas, used wind instruments in parts previously reserved for the organ or harpsichord; English Composer Ebenezer Prout...