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Students at Tanglewood this weekend--the next to last one of the season--will have the chance to hear works by Barraud, Falla, Ravel, and Stravinsky on Friday and by Moevs, Mozart, and Prokofieff Saturday evening. The Sunday concert will feature Copland's Symphonic Ode, Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with...
Infinite Variety. The Barrons achieve their effects by designing electronic circuits that they think express certain emotional characteristics when attached to a loudspeaker, and they tend to call the circuits "characters.'' One expresses anger. Another they call Chloe, because it sounds to them like the lost swamp girl...
Vierne: Symphony No. 2 for Organ (Pierre Cochereau; London). Music by the late member of the French school of "symphonic" organists (he died at the console in 1937) founded by César Frank. The music is pretentious and harmonically shifty but has a faded fascination. It is played on...
A two-piano reduction of Claudio spies Music for a Ballet, an orchestral score which won the 1956 Nadia Boulanger Prize, was performed by Ann Besser and Rzewski. The work is in four movements--Prelude, Vivace, Pantomine, and Pas d'action. It is impossible to judge a symphonic piece fairly...
When Golschmann went to St. Louis with a three-year contract in 1931 (since renewed, year after year, on a one-year basis), Beethoven, Brahms and Wagner were St. Louis' idea of symphonic music. Golschmann has tried to program at least one 20th-century work every concert. Says he...