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...Williamson has tried all sorts of categories. After arriving in London, he worked with twelve-tone Composer Elisabeth Lutyens, but soon found that discipline "stiff and disagreeable." Now his manner is basically tonal, which, he feels, actually affords the composer a wider horizon of dissonance. In another Williamson work produced at Newport, a nonet for five players and four dancers, long sequences of butter-would-melt tunefulness suddenly gave way to a perky hell-for-leather style reminiscent of Stravinsky's acidulous neoclassicism...
...distinguish his style from that of the music on the first half of the program. There are telling differences, however: Ives' melody lines are much longer, and he is careful to relieve the cacophony by recalling more traditional modes of expression. His style is basically an expansion of the tonal idiom rather than a negation...
...mean that the relevance of Pasternak's remark, true enough for ordinary translators, has faded with respect of Lowell. Calling the poems "Translations" in the introductory more, and distinguishing among them the various degrees of freedom employed, he has managed to combine close fidelity to the literal text with tonal fidelity in an overwhelming percentage of lines and stanzas. And he has managed this working primarily with Latin, and language notoriously difficult for translators (witness the absence of any outstanding translation of the Aeneidsince 1967, when Dryden's was published...
...elaborate vocal filigrees, inserting grace notes or unaccompanied passages, some of which lasted as long as the aria itself. They combined the range of the female voice with the power of the male, interposing a dizzying array of appoggiaturas, mordents, cadenzas, slides, slurs, shakes, trills, turns and leaps. For tonal purity, flexibility precision and breath control, it was a display of vocal acrobatics that has never been equaled...
Baked & Boiled. If the new bridge lives up to expectations, it will be one of the most significant tonal innovations in string instruments in 300 years. This, however, is not likely to cut much ice with many performers, if only because musicians have a habit of disagreeing on almost every notion concerning their instruments, especially violins. Fiddle players agree on one important fact, however: the finest violins are the Cremona instruments made by Joseph Guarneri del Gesù (1698-1744) and Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737). There are only about 150 Guarneri and 550 Strads still in existence, and they sell...