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Krenek: Piano Sonata No. 4 (Bernhard Abramowitsch; Music Library). A vintage 1948 work by a composer who made a worldwide splash with his opera, Jonny Spielt Auf, written in a kind of Teutonic honky-tonk style a quarter century ago. The sonata, sometimes using the twelve-tone technique, is full of ultramodern patterns, but they are served up in comparatively palatable form: there are moments of humor, drama and bewitchingly strange sounds. Pianist Abramowitsch plays it with skill and enthusiasm...
...addition to Charivari, the Harvard-Radcliffe Music Clubs also presented four works by other student composers. Paul Knudson's Piano Sonata seemed to be the most significant of these. Despite passages of atonality, the work as a whole is not forbiddingly abstruse. A Serenade for Wind Quartet by Stuart Feder, Intrada and Dance by John Davison, and a Sonata for Cello and Piano by John Bavicchi were also on the program...
Gieseking took his seat at the piano. With his thick shoulders hunched motionless over the keyboard and his heavy head bent reflectively, he had an air of a man determined to prove his case quickly. When he began to play a Mozart sonata, its contours were practically flawless, but the playing was so rigidly controlled that the effect was almost oppressive. Beethoven's Sonata Op. 110 was more relaxed, but it was only when he came to the impressionist music of Debussy and Ravel-billowing up tinted clouds of tone and lacing them with bright spiderwebs of melody-that...
...extremely disjointed phrases, its bare, unornamented texture, and its utilization of the piano's percussive sonorities. On Monday night, Joel Mandelbaum's Piano Concerto in A received its premiere performance. Mandelbaum conducted the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, and Ann Besser, to whom the work was dedicated, was soloist. Its sonata form in the first movement and its frequent reduction of the piano to orchestra, place it more or less in the classical tradition. But the concerto is far from being dry or old fashioned. The published, varied orchestration (somewhat marred by slips in the performance) does not shy away from Romantic...
...latest upcropping of a 20-year-old unofficial ban that began when the Nazis began persecuting the Jews. Israel's extremist press threatened trouble every time the question of German music arose. Violinist Heifetz was not deterred, played the sonata anyhow, and won an ovation. Said he: "I don't recognize any bans, official or unofficial, on the playing of music." The following night, in Tel Aviv, he played Strauss again. Perhaps for the first time in his career, Heifetz drew stony silence instead of applause...