Word: soloist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Choral Society came back for six shorter numbers, including two charming German pieces, Brahms' "Der Brautigam" and Dvorak's "Das Voglein." Soloist Vivian Thomas performed capably in Moussorgsky's "Chanson D'Enfant," and Kodaly's "The Angels and the Shepherds" provided a nice finish to a long evening. Judging from Thursday night, this year is not an off-year for either singing or dancing at Radcliffe...
...major work of the service in memory of the eminent English composer who died this year will be his "Five Mystical Songs," poems by by George Herbert set for baritone solo and chorus. John Horner, from the New England Conservatory of Music, will be the soloist. Motets and organ works by Williams will make up the remainder of the program...
Fortunately, Joseph de Pasquale, the principal violist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who was guest soloist in the Berlioz, produced a performance which was absorbing enough to take attention away from some of the orchestra's defects, and at the same time add an element of warmth which was absent from the orchestral accompaniment...
...solo performances are planned for the weekend. Byron Janis will perform Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto and Zino Francescatti will be soloist in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto...
...orchestra had never played the work, and Richter had only one hour's rehearsal with the Philadelphia musicians before going on. But orchestra and soloist sailed through the piece with astonishing rapport, immediately sensed by the audience. "All the time," said Conductor Eugene Ormandy, "electricity was flowing back and forth." Richter gave Prokofiev's tongue-in-cheek score a kaleidoscopic range, resisted the temptation to lushness in the concerto's lyrical passages or to percussive effects in its driving climax. "He tossed it off," said the Philadelphia's awed Concertmaster Jacob Krachmalnick, "like walking through...