Word: soloistic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SOLOIST James Oliver Buswell played with general indifference to the work's marvelous structural and tonal subleties. He inexcusably tuned sharp and played with a monochromatic tone which, while rather beautiful, was at odds with the coloristic shading of the piece. Instead of varying from lustrous to astringent, from cantabile to martellato, Mr. Buswell overexercised most of the themes with an unvarying weightiness. One notable exception was the elegiac close of the slow movement. Mr. Buswell played with proper aggressiveness in the Magyar uprisings and heroic cadential moments, but has yet to attain a master violinist's inevitable subtlety...
...Both soloist and conductor Yannatos inadequately articulated the Bartokian transitions between tempo energico and tempo rubato. This was especially noticeable in the last movement, which as a result sounded perfunctory and rather episodic. The orchestra's strings and winds usually produced an opaque sound lacking inner luster, but the brass sonorously performed those resplendent tutti passages which hint of the later Concerto for Orchestra...
Harvard Glee Club Soloist; Harvard Chorus Soloist; PBH: Challenge, Columbia Point; Leverett House Opera Society; President Leverett House Music Society; Harvard Music Club; Harvard Dramatic Club; Hasty Pudding; Harvard Krokodiloes...
...most part, today's composers ignore the concerto. Some believe that it is an anachronism, a throwback to the 19th century, when the individual performer counted most. Others say that it is too expensive to rehearse 100 or so musicians and hire a top-name soloist to perform a new concerto. Both arguments have some justification. Still, audiences love the familiar old concertos as much as ever. And so do pianists, as these releases make clear...
...manager's office. He was so scared that I had to ask a secretary to help me decide whether he was any good-I couldn't tell." Anyway, that is the way that most people who know his name remember Powell-as a vital, imaginative soloist with Goodman and later with Glenn Miller...