Word: violoncello
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wait 16 years, but last week an interested audience gladly paid to hear Starker, one of the world's finest cello players, make his belated Carnegie Hall debut. For the occasion Starker performed the U.S. première of Haydn's Concerto in C for Violoncello and Orchestra, a work lost for nearly two centuries until it was unearthed in a castle in Czechoslovakia three years...
...program of last night's Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra concert showed the difference between musical bankruptcy and thematic economy. Shostakovich's Concerto for Violoncello deserves far less than it got (a very good performance from Pierre Fournier); it repeats monotonously to short themes that would have been cut even from a Hasty Pudding show...
...taken at a good deliberate tempo, enjoyed the outstanding solo performance of Tison Street, concertmaster, as violin concertanto. Here, and in the fourth movement, Street gave truly professional performances: accurate, sure, and evocative of all the subtleties in the music. Marshall Brown, first cellist of the orchestra, played the violoncello concertanto. As they had all evening, the strings-notorious nomads in the wastelands of intonation-stayed right on the beaten path and made the symphony...
After the guests had taken their chairs, Casals bent over his 250-year-old Goffriller violoncello and, with a characteristic grimace, began to draw out the golden notes of Mendelssohn's Trio in D Minor. Then there were Schumann's fluid Adagio and Allegro and five Concert Pieces by Couperin. As an encore, Casals played his own arrangement-virtually his theme song-of the Catalan melody, Chant of the Birds...
...Wednesday, a concert will be given by Shirley Suddock, soprano, Rowland Sturges, plano, Mary Fraley Johnson, violoncello, and Howard Brown, flute. The program includes lieder by Franz Schubert and Hugo Wolf; Fetes Glantes, set I, of Debussy and Chanson Madecasses by Maurice Ravel...