Word: surinach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Garden, with lush, languid music by Carlos Surinach, was a kind of lovelorn-columnist's tour of Eden, with Adam, Eve, Adams's legendary wife Lilith and a hor mone-happy stranger as the disturbed protagonists. In style it was light but pricked with wryly ironic wit. Clytemnestra, with a grindingly dissonant score by Egyptian Composer Halim El-Dabh, was a more impressive work and far more complex. Both its power and its tortuous complexities derived from Choreographer Graham's technique of unfolding the story as a memory of past events sounding shrilly in the echo chamber...
...sympathy for struggling composers, the Ajemian sisters rank high among this handful. Last week, at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pianist Maro and Violinist Anahid Ajemian played a representative program, including works by Austrian Ernst Krenek, American Alan Hovhaness, the late German Kurt Weill and Spaniard Carlos Surinach. The Ajemians not only played without a fee but ended the evening owing a sizable printer's bill for programs...
Antheil: Ballet Mécanique (New York Percussion Group conducted by Carlos Surinach; Columbia). This notorious composition (written in 1924 for an abstract film) started wild fistfights at its Paris concert premiere and a quieter scandal in Manhattan. Thirty years after, its buzzing doorbells, roaring airplane propellers and four mechanical pianos seem just quaint and noisy. But the work has moments that are actually tender, and is surprisingly convincing...
...financially in the red, it is musically well in the black. Forty-six new works have been introduced and several have already been performed elsewhere. A few were standouts, e.g., Luigi Dallapiccola's haunting, emotional Variations for Orchestra, Henry Cowell's gentle Symphony No. 11, Carlos Surinach's vivid Sinfonietta Flamenca. The overall quality was higher than critics dared hope...
Conductor Robert Whitney was happy to start the project quietly; his load will grow in the next four years. This week he will repeat the Toch Notturno and add Sinfonietta Flamenca by Spain's Carlos Surinach. Next week he will repeat both and add Rhapsody for Orchestra by the University of Louisville's twelve-tone Composer George Perle. The following week he will repeat all three and add a new student work. After four performances, each work will be dropped and another new one substituted...