Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strings, though overly soft in the allegro, carried through their crescendos and decrescendos with professional ease. Chang and LaFitte offered particularly strong performances, but Soule seemed to fade in and out of the solo quartet and Gianguilo made some rather audible mistakes, failing in four different spots to sustain the end of his solo the full length of the note. The final movement suffered from the meek entry of the strings and an overquick temp. But the allegro assai redeemed the piece, with oboe, flute, and violin soloists maintaining a whispering rapport...
...This school has been a school of choice since its inception in 1972," Graham and Parks Principal Leonard Solo says...
...album kicks off with a track that never made it to Bedtime Stories, Baerwald's fine solo debut: A Secret Silken World, a chronicle of a Saturday- night pickup. Then it ricochets into The Got No Shotgun HydraHead Octopus Blues, which takes up -- with pulsing drums and crunching guitar -- the matter of reciprocal footsie between government and drug dealers. The record is not an editorial, however. Baerwald is not interested in pointing fingers; he wants to nail a mood of corruptive malaise and the autoeroticism of power. One of the record's spookiest and loveliest songs, The Postman, takes...
Happily, the recording is just the first of what promises to be Fleisher's complete traversal of the left-hand repertoire, including solo pieces, chamber music and other concertos by the likes of Scriabin, Saint-Saens, Hindemith and Richard Strauss -- virtually unknown music by major composers that fully deserves wider hearing. A virtue of necessity, perhaps. But what a virtue...
...performance that his purpose goes far beyond the goal of good entertainment. In fact, he became quite ruffled when his polite Harvard audience refused to "get riled up" by his clearly controversial style. His desire to shock his audience into a heightened consciousness was perhaps best evidenced by his solo "Last Night on Earth," which he performed at the Wang Center on Saturday. As the title suggests, the piece is largely autobiographical, or at least very personal. More performance art than traditional dance, the work was a combination of movement and verbal explanation. Anesthetically, its shock value could...