Word: soloistic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge Ballet Theater. That is untrue. The opening "Air" and two "Gavottes" from Bach's Third Suite in D. Major had the misfortune to introduce dancers encumbered with awkward and ludicrous choreography. A troupe of rheumatic frogs would have been more graceful, although it must be added that soloist Richard Hendrik improved when the tempo picked up in the Gavottes, where Senturia got the orchestra to produce bouncy dynamic contrasts...
Carissimi's popular 'Historia de Jepthe' (1645) brought the program to a well-tailored conclusion. Major soloist for the evening, Marguerite Paquet (alto) gave the traditionally tenor Historious part an impressively smooth and certain performance. Mr. Sorenson again delivered a fine solo...
...boss in a concerto-the conductor or the soloist?" rhetorically demanded the New York Philharmonic's Maestro Leonard Bernstein, 43, in his latest outburst of podium pedagogy. Answer: "Sometimes one, sometimes the other, but almost always the two manage to get together"-except in the case that prompted Lenny's musings: the latest Philharmonic appearance of intractable but talented Pianist Glenn Gould, 29. After explaining to the 2,800 in the audience that he disapproved of Gould's interpretation of Brahms's D Minor but would defend to the death an artist's right...
...lack of electronic amplification and echo is most distressingly obvious in the case of the soloist, Mr. Cerf. Cerf displays a rather good, raw, voice. That is, he has no voice at all, just a rasping, unmusical tone that occasionally stays on pitch. Such a voice is perfect for rock, if it is doctored with numerous tubes. In its natural, undoctored self it is merely sad and less...
...concert introduced two musicians to the Sanders Theatre public: Ursula Oppens '65, soloist with the orchestra in Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto, and Robert Kogan '62, conductor of Beethoven's "Leonore" Overture...