Word: solos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Concerto Grosso, first prize winner in the Festival's international competition for new music, begins with a lengthy, cello solo, working complex variations of a four-note theme, builds to a climax with the drums thundering and a clarinet shrieking above a surging mass of sound. Tishchenko does not fall victim to the rhythmic fecklessness that plagues so many of the post-Webernists. Even his quiet passages have a discernible pulse, and the faster movements bristle with a tough rhythmic muscularity...
...single by Neville and a double over third base by Neil Houston were the big hits as Harvard scored solo tallies in the first and second innings...
...wound up with a startling 399,024 votes, nearly twice as many as George had garnered solo in the 1962 primary. She not only trounced Flowers (who got 142,665 votes), but also shellacked such Democratic stalwarts as former Congressman Carl Elliott (with 64,262) and two ex-Governors, John Patterson (32,305) and Kissin' Jim Folsom...
...dozen talented students in his master's class come to his big house in West Los Angeles and form a semicircle in his living room. Piatigorsky slumps his big frame (6 ft. 3½ in.) into an easy chair, and one by one the students play a solo. Now the old cellist closes his mournful eyes in repose, now he nods his head enthusiastically, now lurches forward to demonstrate a point on his cello. He saws the air with an imaginary bow, sings in his rumbling borsch-accented voice: "Dom dom pah pah dom." Scowling, smiling, grimacing, clenching...
DIRECTIONS '66 (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Pearl Lang is choreographer and solo dancer of Prayer for a Dark Bird, a ballet based on passages from the Navajo Night Chant. Earl Wild composed the music and Marian Seldes reads the chant...