Word: symphonicment
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PETER AND THE WOLF (Verve). Bach has been the take-off point for many a jazz exploration. Why not Prokofiev, too? Arranger Oliver Nelson has appropriated the Soviet composer's famous symphonic fairy tale and begins with a straightforward statement of the familiar themes: bird, duck, cat, wolf and...
Thus, with a Cummingsesque jingle, Designer-Philosopher R. Buclcminster Fuller, 70, set out to explain to the Saturday Review all that he had learned during his years since birth. The magazine had the temerity to ask Bucky to keep it down to 5,000 words-a paralyzing limitation for a...
What saved the opera from its pretentious libretto was the soaring music of Strauss, conducted with thunderous brilliance by the late composer's gifted friend, Karl Bohm. By turns raging and receding, mischievous and mystical, the orchestration powerfully underscored the mysterious gulfs between the two worlds and buttressed each...
From the eddying hues of his scenes done in Yellowstone Park to the evanescent brush strokes of the glades near his Cos Cob, Conn., farm, there is more quiet transparency than passion. Twachtman collected Chinese paintings, and their gentle influence shows. His scenes (see color page) are stripped down to...
The performance was part of a ten-concert series by the orchestra at Stanford. Though the Suisse Romande is well known to American audiences from its recordings, this was the orchestra's first visit to the U.S. As debuts go, it was a grueling test. Ansermet (pronounced ahn-ser...