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Every man in the early Ellington band-as in today's-was a soloist, and the music they played was unlike anything anyone had ever heard. Recalls a friend: "One time at the Cotton Club the entire brass section arose and delivered such an intricate and unbelievably integrated chorus that Eddy Duchin, who was in the audience, literally rolled on the floor under his table-in ecstasy." Says Ellington: "We didn't think of it as jazz; we thought of it as Negro music...
Heartz' harpsichord playing had some rhythmic tentativeness and wrong notes, but was adequate on the whole. As soloist he played Byrd's showy Praeludium and jaunty variations on the folk tune The Carman's Whistle. But most intriguing was Hugh Aston's Hornepype, taken from the earliest source of English harpsichord music; this too was a set of variations--not on a tune, but rather on a repeated bass pattern. It is striking for its period in its unusual length, and in the fact that it has an ever-increasing intensity whereas most Renaissance pieces preserve their initial level throughout...
Brown was the superb soloist in two sonatas for recorder and basso continuo (viol and keyboard) by Handel and Telemann--the two competitors for the top Trendex rating when Bach was generally considered a negligible talent. The first movement of the Telemann was a good example of the Baroque convention of using descending chromatic scale fragments to express sadness. In both works, Miss Olson's viol was far too weak, although she was fine in her two solo recercadas by Ortiz. In Baroque music, the bass line cannot be too strong...
...weekend--the next to last one of the season--will have the chance to hear works by Barraud, Falla, Ravel, and Stravinsky on Friday and by Moevs, Mozart, and Prokofieff Saturday evening. The Sunday concert will feature Copland's Symphonic Ode, Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with Zino Francescatti as soloist, and Schumann's Symphony No. 2, in C major. Conductors will be Eleazor de Carvalho Friday, Leonard Bernstein Saturday, and Charles Munch Sunday...
...critical kudos than many a performer receives in a lifetime (TIME, Feb. 6). Nevertheless, he has long cherished an ambition to forgo performing for composing. At the Stratford (Ont.) music festival last week, he put his multiple talents on display. Within one two-hour program, he appeared as piano soloist, returned to hear the first concert performance of his String Quartet, followed that by conducting Schoenberg's Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte...