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Handel: Four Favorite Organ Concertos (E. Power Biggs; Columbia) features another great virtuoso and a great instrument (designed by Handel, it is now in St. James's Church, Packington, England). The best of the four concertos is the grand and glorious No. 16 in F Major, which Biggs plays...
A mechanical--but mechanically imperfect--treatment of Franck's Symphonic Variations by Steven Lubin '63 suggests that perhaps venturing away from musically established works might cure these soloists of their apparent boredom. There are at least two reasonable interpretations of this load of Franck schmaltz: one can play it through...
The man from the musicians' union blessed the evening with a bronze plaque of gratitude, and the beaming directors of Washington's National Symphony Orchestra could be sure that the next week's mail would bring a welcome blizzard of polite thank-you notes from the audience...
The first test eliminated no one: each contestant transcribed from memory the score of a short composition right after he heard it played. Then, working with a list of approved works that included symphonic selections from the baroque to the contemporary, each was given the podium of the Symphony of...
Zen Spirit. Mayuzumi, 34, has already written some highly admired symphonic music (The Nirvana Symphony, Bacchanale) and some chamber work, but Bugaku is his first ballet score. His music, which retains Oriental overtones in an instrumentation for Western musicians (who don't play the hichiriki or the sho), slips...