Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, the lightness of Saint-Saens's Piano Concerto No. 2 and the Bohemian flavor of Dvorak's Symphony No. 8 in G were all pleasing to the ear and mind. The technical performance of the musicians--particularly Roy Kogan's solo in the Saint-Saens concerto--was also fine. The Dvorak ended the concert with confidence, power and skill...
...into the orchestral score. However, the pianist must also attempt to keep these improvisations in the context of the whole work rather than display them simply as a showpiece. Kogan succeeded in this regard Saturday in his performance of Saint-Saens's Second Piano Concerto. He handled the difficult solo parts of the work with consummate ease and sensitivity, and coordinated well with the orchestra to produce an exciting rendering of the concerto...
...third dance performed last week, "Fractions," luxuriates in interaction of weight and air in a velvet-soft ballon. A girl in pale green dips and winds through a solo of airy spirals, one leg curling repeatedly knee-first across her body, bobbing down and swinging out; dancers flicker through space in springboard leaps and swallow swoops; a man and a woman move in an effortless duet, their legs and arms unfurling like a sea-plant swayed by the current...
...dances in last week's Boston program suggested particularly strong emotional overtones. In one, "Solo," Cunningham's own dancing captures with eerie accuracy the furtive watchfulness of a hunted animal. From Cunningham's entrance--back swayed, neck stiff, knees bent, arms and hands contorted downwards, the dance is shot through with images of deformity and entrapment. Cunningham hunches down on the floor, all crippled angles, his head and tongue jerking like a lizard's. His hands tremble fitfully, one foot gropes outward in blind patterns, or--suddenly alert in awful stillness--he glances warily offstage. Movements sputter for a moment...
Down two goals, the Crimson still didn't play like anything was at stake. Paul Castraberti made it 4-1 at 1:24 of the third in a pretty solo effort...