Word: violins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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China's Instrumental Heritage (Professor Liang Tsai-ping and Group; Lyri-chord). A fascinating collection of Chinese folk songs, dating from the yth to 18th centuries and played on such authentic instruments as the zitherlike cheng, the hsiao ('vertical flute), and the nan-hu (violin). The wiry melodic lines, wavering and falling away, have the delicate but hypnotic fascination of ancient Chinese watercolors, and the songs have subjects to match: Wild Geese Alighting on the Sandy Shore, The Spring River in the Flowery Moonlight...
CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT by the Kirkland House Music Society will include figures from The Art of the Fugue and other works by J. S. Bach, Soloists; Neal Zaslaw '61, flute; Tison Street, violin; Joel Sachs '61, piano; and Laurence Lesser '61, cello. Junior Common Room...
...cadenzas connect the continuous movements. One instrument dominates each movement while the rest comment upon the leader or conflict with it. In addition, each instrument has a unique character throughout the work consistent in intervals, rhythm and quality; the cello, for instance, plays predominantly rubato, and the second violin, in Carter's words, "is a very sobering influence" with regular rhythm...
...puzzle-solving exercise in musical mathematics. Built on the commentary between voices, it has a dissonant restlessness that becomes first almost flippant, then explosive with sonority. Dark and intense, it is never murky and is sharply etched with sudden fast notes in the first violin and several kinds of pizzicati in the second...
...music and performance with such an unfamiliar work. The Lenox String Quartet, which premiered the piece, seemed to handle it with perfect ease and probably mirrored the composer's intentions. The individual character of the instruments was quite clear; the cello contributed an almost booming tone and the first violin mastered well the violent alternations between long and short notes...