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Result: a widespread confusion of high fidelity with screeching strings and piercing piccolos.* Today, the audiophile has relaxed. He still considers a wide-frequency response a must (good rigs now put out from 40 cps, the lowest bass viol note, to 15,000. one of the higher violin overtones), but the highs have become sweeter and less insistent...
...texts are relatively unfamiliar (the singers wisely read an English translation of the texts before each vocal piece). The instruments used are now obsolete and belong to what wee called "low instruments"--the lowness referring not to pitch but to decibels--in this case, the recorder, lute, viol and clavichord, all of which had minute expressive range. The music, furthermore is mainly of an intimate sort designed to be heard at close range, not from the rear of a long hall. Nevertheless, the evening was a great success form the standpoint of both performers and audience...
...important to realize that all medieval dances, save a handful, exist only as a single line of notes with no further indications. The group chosen was played, as intended, by whatever instrumentalists happened to be available, in this case Gillian Adams and Chester Pearlman, recorders; Mary Davidoff, viol; and John Hollander, lute. The added improvised percussion parts for hand drum, tamborine and triangle were totally authentic. The players also performed two of the earliest polyphonic instrumental pieces...
Greek Folk Songs and Dances (Royal Greek Festival Co.; Esoteric). Odd and unexpected rhythms, exotic harmonies, haunting melodic patterns and some rarely recorded instruments, e.g., lira (viol), santir (dulcimer), wooden spoons, go into one of the most interesting and unusual albums of the year...
...Denver, not just use its podium as a springboard. Conductor Caston built up his orchestra to 76 pieces on the same principles-ears cocked for musical ability, eyes peeled for settlers. The result is "a happy orchestra," with most of the musicians under 30. Among them: a Negro bass viol player and a Nisei violinist...