Word: soloistic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...star soloist on Miller's sing-along program, she has proved herself the best girl singer since Rosemary Clooney. Her talent is evidence that not all teen-age singers are indiscriminately scraped up off the sidewalks and shoved into echo chambers. She has the range of mood and inflection to do everything from Clang Clang Clang Went the Trolley to religious songs at Christmastime...
...amplification. Bluegrass is not a "polite synonym for hillbilly." It is a highly intricate derivative of the folk and jazz idioms. Both the term and the music itself received their major impetus from Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys. A bluegrass musician is an accomplished and versatile soloist who is capable of achieving a very delicate balance between story and music. Only stringed instruments are used, and these are nonelectrified and unamplified (as opposed to hillbilly music...
Three of the four compositions on the program were each highlights, and this suggests how remarkable the concert was. Understandably, the Bach Society Orchestra playing Bach's fourth Klavier concerto in A major was a fine show. Luise Vosgerchian, soloist and preceptor of music in the Department of Music, seized the concerto firmly in hand and gave it an energetic and clear performance. Miss Vosgerchian and conductor Layton worked together very closely; the taperings at the ends of phrases and changes in dynamics, for example, fitted together like fine-tolerance metal work. Although the second movement (Larghettoo) may have been...
...Orchestra under George Szell and the Boston Symphony, which not only played superbly under its new conductor, Erich Leinsdorf (see below), but included in its program what proved to be the week's most distinguished première-Samuel Barber's Piano Concerto, with John Browning as soloist, Composers Copland, Walter Piston and William Bergsma had also provided opening-week pieces, all of them competent occasional music (Copland's brassy, sinewy Connotations for Orchestra, Piston's stately Lincoln Center Festival Overture, Bergsma's festive In Celebration: Toccata for the Sixth Day). But of the four...
...selections from the work of Ralph Vaughan Williams opened the program. With Miss Jacqueline Goodspeed as soprano soloist, the Chorus performed Williams' "O Taste and See," a setting of Verse 8 of the 34th Psalm. The general effect was pleasing; and even better things were soon to come. Regardless of whatever else it can do, a group as large as the Chorus ought to be able to sing with power. And the Summer Chorus, with its stops let out, was overwhelming. The second of the opening compositions, "O Clap Your Hands," proved this beyond a shadow of doubt. Scored...