Word: sonata
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...program was provocative: four works by four U.S. composers, three of whom are little known. Bennington College's Louis Calabro was represented by the premiere of his Sonata for Piano; Brooklyn College's Josef Alexander offered his Songs for Eve; Hall Overton, composition teacher, presented his String Quartet. To round it off and set a frame of reference, Princeton's well-known Composer Roger Sessions was there with his Sonata for Violin...
...blazing work, brilliantly played by Violinist Polikoff himself. By contrast, Alexander's Songs for Eve was a plodding and undramatic vocal presentation of texts by Archibald MacLeish around which four accompanying instruments (violin, cello, English horn, harp) weave contrasting sonorities in a striking instrumental texture. Calabro's Sonata and Overton's Quartet were both professional jobs, but more interesting in their smoothly machined parts than in their bland conclusions...
Although he has presented the works of more than 130 contemporary composers, at 52 Polikoff still remains awed by the composer's function. In 1950, he recalls, he played Charles Ives's Sonata No. 11n Carnegie Hall and called Ives's home to check a detail. While talking to Mrs. Ives, he heard the ailing composer shouting in the background: "I want to shake that young man's hand!" Marvels Polikoff: "Think of it! He wanted to shake my hand because I was playing one of his pieces...
...Kallinikoff-Symphony #2 in A minor (Per); Bach-Chromatic Fantasy & Fuge in D minor (Per); Pergolesi-Stabat Mater (D); Mozart-Quartet #14 in G major (C); Bernstein-Age of Anxiety (C); Handel-Trio Sonata in E for Flute, Violin, Bassoon, Harpsichord (HSLP...
...Gluck-Alceste Overture (D); Bach-Sonata #3 in E (C); Tchaikowsky-Swan Lake Ballet (V); Hayden Sonata #24 (MSLP); Gershwin-Concerto...