Word: stravinskyan
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...exercise his talent for musical satire; the score glitters with echoes of half a dozen com posers, from Berg to Bartok. Carl Orff's cantata Carmina Burana is brilliantly parodied by an offstage male chorus singing a salty Latin text on the mating habits of ants; acidulous Stravinskyan brasses turn up in Act III. The real wonder is that despite the borrowing Composer Ronnefeld's score has a character of its own brash, melodramatic, full of rhythmic fire...
...section of the third elegy, the tempo is funereal, and throughout the mood is unrelievedly austere. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the piece is that despite the rigidities of the tone-row technique (and for the first time Stravinsky used all twelve tones), it is thoroughly suffused with Stravinskyan trademarks-harmonic juxtapositions, rhythmic ingenuities-that adorn such earlier works as Les Noces and Symphony of Psalms...
Andre Jolivet: Concerto for Trumpet, Piano & String Orchestra (Roger Del Motte, Serge Baudo; Champs-Elysees Theatre Orchestra conducted by Ernest Bour; Westminster). Debussyan impressionism and Stravinskyan neoclassicism get taken for a mocking ride in this single movement, but it is not quite so witty in this performance as the composer seems to intend...
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