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Symphony tonight will include Beethoven's Overture to Collin's drama "Coriolan," dances from "The Three Cornered Hat" by Falla (not to be confused with ecstatic Eleanor's Fellas), Dvorak's violin concerto in B minor, and Bohuslav Martinu's Sixth Symphony, which gets its premiere. Leonard Rose, soloist...
...once syncopated and plodding. Violinist Oistrakh applied his tight, concise tone to it. He revealed it, at its best, as a line of high eloquence, although sometimes it was merely a dry-throated recitation. Later, the movement rose to a shuddering gong-burst of sound, and both orchestra and soloist glided into a barely comprehensible maneuver that slid to a high, fine-drawn conclusion...
Well-knit Work. The rippling second movement gave no clear idea of tonal home base, but it developed a comic effect as it progressed through subtly different rhythms. The third movement, again in pensive tempo, gave the soloist another long melody that breathed nostalgically of twilight among ruins, then let it sigh into a noontime atmosphere with a passage in octaves, then into a recitative of murmurous beauty, where Oistrakh's instrument spoke in unevenly repeated notes. The solo cadenza started with simple triads in different keys, then confronted them with each other in a clashing dissonance, then became...
...exception was the interpolated movement, Laudate Dominum, which was sung with some feeling. The interpolation also featured a golden-haired, golden-voiced soprano named Sue Glenn. Although her low notes were a little breathy, her attacks were clean, her high notes under control, and she was the only soloist of the evening who did not force her tone. The Bach Society Orchestra provided a uniformly capable accompaniment...
...Choral Society seemed beautifully trained, especially when they sang softly, but their interpretation of early music, such as Dufay's Magnificat in the Eighth Mode, was overly romantic. They were better in interesting contemporary pieces by Martinu and Harris. Elizabeth Kalkhurst was the fine soprano soloist...