Word: toning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BRAHMS: FIVE PIANO PIECES; STRAVINSKY: THREE MOVEMENTS FROM PETROUCHKA (RCA Victor). Misha Dichter, 22, is another young pianist of great promise and considerable accomplishment. The Brahms is simple music that demands color and tone from the interpreter, which Dichter supplies confidently; Petrouchka has brought him ovations in recital. The three movements are a showcase for a virtuoso technique, and Dichter cuts loose with a fury of sound. Fortunately, he also reveals a calmer temperament in the balancing poetic passages...
Written in the composer's emotional, pre-twelve-tone style, the music predict ably irritated some listeners and in spired others. But there was no denying the touch of a master in Jakobsleiter's expressionistic orchestral colors and its delicate, wispy, half-song half-speech. Neil Peter Jampolis' silver-staired setting, Robert Baustian's serene conducting and, among the fine cast, Bass-Baritone Donald Gramm's deep, firm-voiced Gabriel only added to the success of the occasion...
...fitting follow-up to Santa Fe's earlier U.S. premiere of Hans Werner Henze's The Bassarids, a stark, twelve-tone retelling of Euripides' The Bacchae. The libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman rang out with eloquent pathos. The cast struck a perfect balance of harshness and lyricism under Composer Henze's baton. Perhaps best of all, though, was the spectacular scene depicting the burning palace of Pentheus. Smoke billowed and red lights flickered. Once again flames soared at Santa Fe-but this time they were just part of the show...
Last week Silverman's experimental "pop opera," Elephant Steps, had its premiere at Tanglewood in Massachusetts, and it sounded-well, like a giant radio with its dials spinning crazily. Dissonant 12-tone textures melted into a gypsy air. A rock beat crashed into Renaissance madrigals. Ragtime, ragas, taped noises and electronic bleeps tumbled together in a swirl of sound that satirized serious music as much as schmalz. Silverman says it was all meant to be "fun, like raping the styles...
...blood"). There was also an elixir "guaranteed to destroy all desire for liquor" and a magical tonic called "Peruvian wine of cocoa" that was recommended "if you wish to accomplish double the amount of work or have to undergo an unusual amount of hardship." Arsenic wafers were offered to tone up the complexion, and an "electric ring for rheumatism" (85?; goldplated...