Word: solos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will pass over the rest of Harvard's selections, merely reinforcing my initial sentiments. Russell Cartwright deserves special mention for his Vaudeville solo in Princeton, That's All, but undivided praise should go to the Harvard Glee Club as a whole for a real team effort. I need hardly say which side...
...most thoroughly competent performance of the evening was Stravinsky's short In Memoriam Dylan Thomas, an interesting composition scored for tenor solo, string quartet, and four trombones. Its history is rather interesting: when Dylan Thomas died unexpectedly in 1954 he was en route to collaborate with Stravinsky on an opera, and the composer, much distraught, wrote this simple, direct work in memory of his friend. The In Memoriam opens with canonic music for trombones and string ritornello; this is repeated in the postlude with the parts reversed. The middle section is a strophic setting of Thomas's "In Memoriam," written...
...found the most enjoyable part of the concert to be Benjamin Britten's brilliant Serenade for Tenor Solo, Horn, and Strings. In this cycle of six English poems, Britten combines his British love of melody with a fascinating originality of composition, and the result is a masterpiece...
...Friday's concert Mallory Walker was tenor soloist with hornist Ralph Pottle, a member of the Boston Fine Arts Woodwind Quintet. Mr. Pottle unfortunately made a series of disastrous mistakes in his opening solo, and although the program notes explained that "the opening and closing horn passages shall be played as directed by the composer--on the natural harmonics of the instrument--hence the irregularities in intonation," it was painfully obvious to all what had happened when the identical passage was correctly played at the end of the piece. Those who realized at the time that Britten had not intended...
Percy Humphrey's Crescent City Joy Makers (Riverside). Happy frenzies by a pickup New Orleans "joy maker band" that sounds superbly at home in such traditional numbers as Over in Gloryland and All the Gals Like the Way I Ride. Fine solo work by Trumpeter Humphrey and by Albert Burbank, a veteran Creole musician who uncoils his tart clarinet in nights of eloquent enthusiasm...