Word: toccatas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Toccata in D major Frescobaldi Symphony No. 3 Schubert Concerto Grosso in D minor Vivaldi An Outdoor Overture Copland...
...hands of the Orchestra, is now resting in peace. Two movements of his Third Symphony were played Tuesday, and in the Trio of the third movement the Orchestra again achieved that lilt which comes only with practice and perfection. The Frescobaldi, an orchestral arrangement of an organ toccata, also showed the fruits of much careful rehearsal. But the Copland still stands as proof of what can be done if an orchestra such as ours really believes in itself...
Last week Kenny Wolf got what he wanted. In Chicago's Kimball Hall an audience of 475 heard him work his way confidently and competently through a stiff program of Bach, Schubert, Brahms and Chopin, applauded him roundly when he finished a complicated, explosive Toccata and a pleasant Andante he had written himself. The judgment of the critics, as Seymour Raven of the Chicago Tribune summed it up: "Mr. Wolf has analyzed his music and taken a firm interpretative view of much of it. Yet he often fails where one would expect a boy to falter when wearing...
...Symphony as a completely different instrument from those he has led in France, not necessar-6The Boston Symphony's new conductor CHARLES MUNCH chats with his predecessor SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY after the Symphony Hall appearance of the Orchestre National of France last fall. the program, led by Munch, included a Toccata by Walter Plston, Naumberg Professor of Music at Harvard...
...writing music steadily since he composed the score for a Dunster House musical not long after his return from Paris. He has done a good deal of choral composition, and his works include the Alice in Wonderland Suite and The Choral 'New Yorker.' Koussevitzky has heaped praise on his Toccata Concertante. It has had several performances this year by the Boston Symphony and was played under the composer's direction at Sanders Theater this winter. His new Partita for Woodwind Quintet was performed last month at M.I.T...