Word: soloists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grosso. In the Bach the exotic coloring of the woodwind passages, marvelously executed by the section, overshadowed such outstanding lacks as the weakness of the bass line (in which, besides, the usual keyboard continue was lacking) and the technically inept handling of the violin obbligato by a mercifully unnamed soloist...
Then violin soloist Albert Lind '29 executed Massenet's "Meditation from "Thais'" so well that he was forced to return for another number...
Freshman John Perkins was piano soloist in his own Seven Experimental Preludes. It is hard to judge what he was experimenting with, since so much follows tried-and-true devices of harmony and rhythm. Yet despite the occasional cliches, Perkins' music has conciseness and proportion that looks forward to future achievement...
...Mozart's aerial melodies, the concert came heavily back to earth with Charles Loeffler's Canticle of the Sun. It resembles the sound track of a Disney True Life Adventure. Augmented by two harps, celesta, and piano, the orchestra plays swooping glissandos and tortured Puccini-like harmonies; the soprano soloist must remain throughout in a palpitating ecstasy totally incongruous with St. Francis' humble text. At least Canticle had the benefit of Janet Wheeler's lovely voice and inspired instrumental work under conductor Kalman Novak...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 4, with Soloist Leonid Hambro...