Word: tchaikovskian
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Swan Lake, Minnesota (ARTS). Swan maidens in tutus riding bales of hay up a conveyor belt? This poetic, disarmingly simple adaptation of the classic ballet inventively mixed a country-and-western twang with Tchaikovskian lyricism...
...Picasso in art, left his school behind. He went on to a preoccupation with 18th-Century counterpoint, and shocked his fellow revolutionaries by having a good word for a romantic composer like Tchaikovsky. In his new symphony, Stravinsky carries his musical vagabonding a step further-blending a kind of Tchaikovskian and Brahmsian romanticism with jazzy rhythms. The Carnegie Hall audience gave it a polite hearing, and several rounds of applause which seemed intended primarily as a tribute to Stravinsky rather than to his symphony. The critics felt the same...
Tchaikovsky: Manfred (Indianapolis Symphony, Fabien Sevitsky conducting; Victor; 14 sides). Excellent first recording of a mixture of Tchaikovskian wind and melody...
...headed by the composer in his debut as a concert conductor. The audience found Grofe's own jazzy, tuneful, descriptive music, as well as the numerous other works he played, good listening, often good for a laugh. The Symphony in Steel employed a siren and pneumatic drills. The Tchaikovskian Sob Sister from Tabloid Suite was neatly assembled, bu! Hollywood proved most successful, with the banging and scraping of carpenters and electricians, the ennui of "stand-ins." the barking of a director, a "Precision Routine" in which the percussion section drummed on its shoes with rhythmic ingenuity to suggest...
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