Word: soloistic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...wife of Composer Dmitri Tiomkin; after a long illness; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Trained in Vienna's Imperial Theater, a performer in New York at 16, Albertina Rasch determined to awaken U.S. interest in ballet by taking the dance into vaudeville's thriving circuits, first as a soloist, later as head of her own troupe. The acclaim she found there led her into cho- reography-for Ziegfeld's Show Girl, Rio Rita, and to the lavish productions of Hollywood, where in 1938 she directed 800 dancers during a single week for three pictures: Marie Antoinette, The Great...
...album cover as for the music itself. Not that the composer writes revealingly about his art ("All the Piano Pieces V-X are characterized by groups of notes around nuclear notes, occurring before, with or after them."). Instead, he spends the space discussing the fascinating food his soloist, Aloys Kontarsky, consumed on the days when the album was being recorded. On the groaning board: jugged deer with Spdtzle; marrow consomme; steak Tartare; saltimbocca romana ("He sent the rice back"); Movenpick ice-cream tart; Haldengut Pilsen beer; Cognac; Coca-Cola; Johannisberg wine, and one Bloody Mary. During one recording session, confides...