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...Marcello: Introduction, Aria and Presto (A); Haydn: Quartet in B minor, Op. 64, #2 (Quinten) (W); Liszt: Hamlet (L.); Prokoviev: Sonata #4 in C minor for piano (A); Handel: Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 #9 (C); Mozart: Coronation Mass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHRB Program Guide | 3/18/1959 | See Source »

...wonder of this sordid and symbolic tale is that it is suffused with compassion, heightened by the remarkable music Alban Berg wrote for it. The score, set in the tilted frame of nontonality, is carefully cast in a variety of classical musical forms: suite, passacaglia, sonata, fanatasie and fugue; scherzo, etc. The huge (113 instruments) orchestra sometimes bellows in brassy rages, sometimes shrieks in lines of shrill angularity, sometimes surprises with passages of softly breathing lyricism. The stark horror of the murder is conveyed in a howling, brassy crescendo in the orchestra that gives way abruptly to the tinselly tinkle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wozzeck at the Met | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

Limited Repertory. Seated on separate benches. Pianists Demus and Badura-Skoda worked their way through five little-heard pieces from the limited repertory of original four-hand works. The five: Mozart's Sonata in C. K.521, Hindemith's Sonata for Four Hands, three works by Schubert (who wrote more four-hand music than any other major composer). In some pieces, Demus played "low" (the bass part) and Badura-Skoda "high" (the treble), in others they switched positions. Since the bass player invariably tends to underpedal to avoid thickness, the pedaling throughout was done by the treble player. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mr. High & Mr. Low | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

Throughout the service the organ and harpsichord playing of Lois Pardue was exemplary. She was joined at the beginning of the program by two flutists in a lovely Bach sonata which benefited, as did the Choral singing, from the fine acoustics of Memorial Church

Author: By Edgar Murray, | Title: University Choir Carols | 12/18/1958 | See Source »

Sheldon Lubow '60, a student of Claudio Arrau, will be the recitalist this Saturday at 2:45 p.m. in a concert at the Gardiner Museum. His program will include a Bach Prelude and Fugue, Chopin's "Funeral March" Sonata, and the last movement from the Samuel Barber Sonata...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Concert to Feature Lubow | 12/5/1958 | See Source »

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