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BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A searching look at ballet through the person of the New York City Ballet Company's soloist, Edward Villella. The camera studies him onstage performing two George Balanchine ballets, offstage choreographing a new pas de deux, and at home with his wife, Ballerina Janet Greschler...
...separate the Mozart from Piston's Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra, completed last July. In import, however, the two are not so very far apart. Written in a thoroughly modern idiom, Piston's piece nevertheless has all the brevity, forward drive and essential lyricism of a Mozart horn concerto. Soloist John C. Adams combined a capacity for pyrotechnics with a sensuous pianissimo that must be the envy of all clarinetists...
...minded student conductor Harvard has seen in half a dozen years. In addition he has won respect as a solo clarinetist and chamber musician. Daniel Troob, the excellent continuo-player in Adams's superb production of The Marriage of Figaro, was to team up with him again as the soloist in the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23. One glance at the back of the program made it abundantly clear that Adams has accomplished a small coup d'etat in gathering so many of the community's best musicians...
...biggest disappointment of the evening was the Mozart piano concerto. In the Allegro the lower strings dragged terribly. The orchestra was constantly at odds with the soloist, overpowering him dynamically and struggling to arrive at a mutually conducive tempo...
...minute mood of hushed mystery that was almost visual in its stunning impact. The strings whirred and chattered, spinning out a web of shimmering sonority into which the winds and brass poked tiny pin points, like stars among scudding clouds. Through it all one black-and-grey-robed soloist warbled the mournful, breathy tones of the shakuhachi, a bamboo flute, while another tapped the strings of the lutelike biwa with a wooden plectrum, suggesting the sharp, dry crunch of dead branches in an icy forest...