Word: symphonicment
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The result is a bold piece of work-improvisatory, imaginative and thoroughly in keeping with the spirit of the toccatas of Bach that inspired it. In "Anne Boleyn," Wakeman starts out with the courtly use of an old English hymn, then progresses to a violently free-for-all jazz v...
THE idealized symphonic conductor has Leonard Bernstein's flair, Herbert von Karajan's grace and Zubin Mehta's youth. But when the directors of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra cast around for a conductor to save their troubled orchestra in 1968, they threw out all the stereotypes and...
Romantic for Solti means a predominance of German and Austrian music (ranging all the way from Haydn to Wagner, Mahler and Strauss), plus an orchestral tone that is big and red-blooded but not as luxuriant, say, as the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy. As much as he relishes the...
Though the Concert Band concerts usually stress the classic pieces for symphonic band, such as those by Hindemith and Schoenberg, this year's concert drew almost exclusively on recent works. In Aaron Copland's "Outdoor Overture," the earliest work performed, brass fanfare was emphasized to a point where all harmonic...
THE CONCERT BAND may be caught in a vicious cyle. It plays only one concert at Harvard each year, so there's not as much talk about it as there is about other Harvard music groups. Yet, at the present level of attendance, the band could hardly afford to put...