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...seemingly boneless hands, tall Conductor Mitropoulos gave them a sample of the moderns-cum-classics programs they could expect on many evenings this season. The opener: a monstrously brassy orchestration by the late Italian composer, Alfredo Casella, of the Chaconne from Bach's Suite No. 2 for Solo Violin. Beethoven's happy Fourth Symphony, delicately if fussily performed, smoothed down ruffled feathers momentarily, but Prokofiev's screaming Symphony No. 5 got some of them ruffled right up again...
When young Andrés Segovia told his instructors at Spain's Granada Musical Institute that he wanted to study the guitar rather than the piano or violin, they sniffed. The guitar was an instrument for gypsies, not for a young man who had ambitions to be a musician. Besides, no one at the conservatory knew enough about the guitar to teach it. Teenager Segovia stubbornly set out to teach himself...
...meager score of existing guitar literature he had added more than 150 of his own transcriptions of works for harpsichord, lute, violin and piano by the world's great composers. Modern composers, hearing Segovia, began writing music especially for the guitar...
This year's violin section (often the weakspot in amateur orchestras) is generally quite strong. The concertmaster, Deno Geanakaplos 3G, was a first violinist in the Minneapolis symphony Orchestra. Also, many of the University's better violinists who have been unable to attend in the past years are playing with the orchestra...
Beethoven: Serenade, Op. 25 (John Wummer, flute; Alexander Schneider, violin; Milton Katims, viola; Columbia 2 sides LP). An early, infectiously light-hearted work for an unusual assortment of instruments; the players here make it sound good. Recording: excellent...