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...entire dynasty of Bach Society Orchestra conductors participated in the orchestra's final concert of the season Sunday night. The founder of the orchestra, Michael Greenebaum, led the first Boston performance of Berg's Kammerkonzert for Piano, Violin, and thirteen Wind Instruments; next year's conductor, John Harbison, made a brief debut; and Michael Senturia made his last appearance as conductor of the orchestra. It was a very nostalgic evening...
...soloists were excellent both times. Bruce Archibald managed a stormy piano part without the slightest bit of over-percussiveness. His solo variation sounded almost Romantic, and his pedalling was particularly effective. Linda Schein's violin solo, especially the muted sections, had a haunting quality. Mr. Greenebaum's conducting was steady and commanding throughout...
Manusevitch plays second violin in the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and has had an extensive musical background. However, as an undergraduate, he concentrated in the Slavic Department...
Slim, tweedy Composer Imbrie worked intermittently on his concerto for four years, completed it in 1954. As performed last week by the San Francisco Symphony, with Robert Gross as violin soloist, it proved to be a propulsive, clamorous virtuoso work in both twelve-tone and traditional diatonic idioms, with its limber solo line woven through the big sonorities of the orchestra in a stirringly unfolding tapestry of sound. The first movement, in alternating slow and fast tempi, built to its main climax by echoing the solo violin nights with orchestral figurations set at closer and closer intervals. By turns...
...express everything I could." His "everything" proved to be quite enough for the critics. Wrote the San Francisco Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein : "If it is all a total failure, the festival will nevertheless have been justified because it occasioned the first performance of Andrew Imbrie's Violin Concerto. It impressed me as being the most important composition of its kind since the Violin Concerto of Alban Berg...