Word: soloistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. JULIUS HEMPHILL, 57, jazz saxophonist and composer; of complications from diabetes; in New York City. As a soloist, Hemphill offered a steel-edged, intense tone; as a composer, he reveled in the provocative. His work for the World Saxophone Quartet featured a reedy thicket of sax sound, freely drawing on musical forms from gospel to big band to cool jazz to blues...
...strict accompaniment, Metamorphosen took more of an environmental role. At times, they supplied the mountainous backdrop through which Trampler's determined melodies echoed. In other sections, such as the repeated ascensions that lead to the piece's towering climax, they became a rain-swept storm, resisting or propelling the soloist capriciously...
...seems poised to be a major star of the future. American Ballet Theatre's Paloma Herrera, only 19, commands the stage in every bold, joyous performance she gives. And at the New York City Ballet, two relative beginners, Jenifer Ringer, 21, and Miranda Weese, 20, both just promoted to soloist rank, are darting through the difficult repertory and making it sizzle...
...played along modestly in the tuttis as a soloist from the Classical era would. His entrances were marked by exceptionally clear double-stops, and his performance was technically close to perfect. Though his tone lacked some of the strength of the century's great violinists, Lin added just the right amount of time and accentuation to his playing. His level of expressiveness, while it sometimes falls short in concerti by late Romantics like Sibelius and Saint-Saens, matches the temper of Classical works precisely...
...Martin, from 1944-45, launched the audience on a much more fulfilling journey. Its orchestration demands two separate string orchestras, harp, harpsichord and--completing the progression--piano. Currier House tutor and renowned local soloist Randall Hodgkinson joined the orchestra on piano along with the exquisite harp of Elizabeth Remy...