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...particular, Hubert Lamb's Intervale Variations for Violin and Orchestra might have been a great deal more palatable if the composer had told the large audience just what he was trying to say in his music. After a slow introduction, the main theme is stated, allegro. Then there are ten variations, punctuated by three codas. Although there are some striking contrasts in rhythm and mood, the piece seems to lack nay principle of unity...
...Copland sonatas that opened the program needed neither explanation nor excuse. They are well-constructed, self-consistent works that created favorable impressions even on first hearing. I preferred the Sonata for Violin and Piano (1943) mostly because of its more lyrical themes and greater restraint. Copland's music has a distinctive fresh-air quality that compares favorably with the suffocating works of some of his contemporaries. All that his music requires for maximum effect is a straightforward performance, and Mr. Tucker is above all a straightforward performer...
Others in the competition were Jean W. Lunn '55, soprano; Anthony W. Morss '53, piano; James D. Wood, Sp., clarinet; Nurhan A. Adrian '54 and Shahan A. Adrian '54, piano duo; Jaroslav F. Hulka '52, French horn; Earl C. Ravenal '52 and Sandor S. Shapiro '54, violin duo; Rosemary MacKown '54, piano, and Vernon Head, viola...
...modern music and for the concert-goer who is looking for something different the Longy School's "Music of Today" series supplies an ideal remedy. Last Thursday, Gregory Tucker successfully presented the first of three concert-lectures devoted to contemporary music. The featured work was Arnold Schonberg's enigmatic Violin Concerto (Op. 36), the artists were Mr. and Mrs. Louis Krasner, and the result was one of the season's most important musical events...
Waiting in the wings for her first cue, the pretty Viennese soprano vibrated like a violin string. Back in Vienna, she had heard that the Metropolitan was a harsh house, so big that a singer could not move around onstage without sacrificing her voice. The hallowed ghosts of the Met were all around her. How would she measure up to the great Gildas of the past-Sembrich, Melba, Galli-Curci...