Word: sonata
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...second piece, though, Faure's "Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano, Opus 13," displayed an intensity of feeling based firmly in knowledge of the music being played, which gave it an appeal only matched by the crowd-pleasing Heifetz Transcriptions at the end of the program. This was the most substantial piece in the recital, a formal four-movement sonata, and an illustration of Faure at his intimate best...
...second half of the concert opened with a moment characteristic of the whole performance; in the opening measures of the second movement of Strauss' three-movement "Sonata in E-flat Major for Violin and Piano, Opus 18," Perlman turned to the audience and raised his eyebrows expressively whilst playing the most beautiful melody-that subliminal expression on his face informed the feeling for the whole piece...
...Kreutzer Sonata," featured Loeb's accompaniment...
...former prodigy from New York City who produced his Op. 1, a piano sonata, at 15, Liebermann is one of the New Tonalists, a group of composers who have turned their back on the hard-edged, complicated avant-garde sounds that dominated the American new-music scene after World War II. Unlike such devotees of dissonance as Milton Babbitt and Elliott Carter, they happily embrace traditional tonality, the harmonic language of most Western music, from Bach to rock. "I don't believe in the cliche that art has to reflect its times--that since we're living in a horrible...
...Backstage, though, the uniformity falls apart. One sophomore, who contemplated majoring in music, loosens his tie and massages Beethoven's Sonata Pathetique out of the piano in the corner. He is one of the group's obvious musicians. Another, musical director David Liang, whose rapid-fire scats are probably the most impressive talent in the group, thinks through an arrangement for the next show. Sophomore Henry Rich, meanwhile, a special concentrator in aesthetics, secludes himself in the corner and reads T.S. Eliot poems into his dictaphone for later listening during his workout at the gym. Others pull...