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In the second movement, the woodwind solos were outstanding, but the French horns stole the show. Their usual difficulties with intonation and entrances disappeared, and they played in tune, in time, and in tone.
The HRO played attentively. They thundered when the occasion demanded, or played under the chorus's pianissimo, which was very soft, Randall Thompson's orchestrations are more or less routine work for instrumentalists; the strings played what they had well, the wind solos were good, but not always exactly in...
"Nuages"--the first--was disappointing. This fragile piece must be played with a pull that will give it direction without destroying the mood. It was the absence of this force, plus a certain heaviness, that kept "Nuages" from coming off, though Carl Schlaikjer's luscious English horn solos helped to...
PHILLY JOE JONES & ELVIN JONES TOGETHER (Atlantic), Two top drummers (no kin) trade solos in triumphant tattoos and combine in layered rhythms to launch some short flights by Trumpeter Blue Mitchell, Pianist Wynton Kelly and other swingers. Philly Joe rattles the right stereo, Elvin the left.
Like a proud father, Balanchine this season has exposed a wealth of gifted young girls in a variety of major roles, almost to the exclusion of the older principal dancers. Patricia Neary, 22, for example, who graduated from the corps de ballet just last year, has per formed 47 solos...