Word: viola
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...lecture laboratory course will study ancient instruments and music using for the first time a "chest of viols," exact copies of ancient instruments. Wenzinger will demonstrate on his own very famous Steiner viola...
Dohnayi's Screnade in C, for violin, viola, and cello, is a delightfully original work, full of truth and good humor. The third movement, with its nonsensical chattering between violin and viola punctuated by the lugubrious comments of the cello, gently satirizes the typical Nineteenth Century but is at the same time good music in its own right. The versatile who had sounded in the Beethoven, changed their tone for Dohnanyi; clarify gave way to richness, and relaxed give and take took the place of precision...
...Cavalry ("unmounted, but we had boots and spurs"), Billy won three battle stars in the China-Burma-India Theater, ended up in China as a sergeant. After college (Yale '48), Steinkraus combined his two main pastimes into a temporary career. An ardent musician ("strictly longhair"), he played the viola with the Connecticut Symphony Orchestra, joined a concert-management concern, spent all his spare time on the horse-show circuit...
Vaughn Williams: Flos Campi (Francis Tursi, viola; Cornell A Cappella Chorus; orchestra conducted by Robert Hull; Concert Hall). An attractive musical evocation of The Song of Solomon, in which the viola's alto voice sings of Oriental love with considerable dark passion, while the chorus sings wordless syllables...
Other noteworthy new releases: Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach: Magnificat (Vienna State Opera Orchestra) ; Akademie Choir and soloists conducted by Felix Prohaska; Bach Guild, 2 LPs); Conrad Beck: Viola Concerto (Walter Kagi; L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Jean Meylan; London); Beethoven: "Kreutzer" Sonata (Jascha Heifetz, violin; Benno Moïséiwitsch, piano; Victor...