Word: vivaldi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spirited performance of Vivaldi's Gloria was the major attraction in a service of church music presented by the Harvard Freshman Glee Club and Radcliffe Freshman Chorus at Memorial Church last night. The concert was short, but solid, achieving no remarkable heights, but maintaining a satisfying level of musicianship...
...Choreographer Balanchine, it was the fourth premiere in an amazing nine-week stretch. The first was Square Dance, a whimsical leap between cultures. To the chamber music of Corelli and Vivaldi and the cadenced commands of Square Dance Caller Elisha C. Keeler, dancers executed the disciplined, classic patterns that Balanchine has made a trademark. The mixture was unlikely, but when Keeler had twanged out his last call ("That is all; the dance is ended/ The music is finished; the caller's winded''), audiences cheered the blend of do-si-do and pas de deux...
...concert opened with a vigorous performance of Vivaldi's Concerto Grosso for four solo violins. David Hurwitz, Ronald Hathaway, Katherine Gratwick, and Ruth Miller performed the solo parts with consistent vitality and precision, if not perfect intonation. Although the contrast between the ensemble and the concertino group was not as great as it might have been in a larger orchestra, the string section demonstrated once again its brilliance and fullness, while Mr. Senturia emphasized the formal power and relentlessness of the concerto...
...last of the studio-recorded Toscanini music, Victor still has half a dozen unpublished recordings from rehearsals and performances approved by Toscanini during the last two years of his life and scheduled for release. They include Brahms's Double Concerto, Haydn's Toy Symphony and a Vivaldi Concerto Grosso. Toscanini's son Walter estimates that there are some 30 other approved recordings in Riverdale, among them the complete Romeo and Juliet music of Berlioz and the Second and Fourth symphonies of Sibelius. The recordings are the fruits of a plan RCA Victor worked out with Walter Toscanini...
...McGhee of N.Y.U.'s Division of General Education hopes to enlarge the series further by 1958, believes there is an audience for chamber music in lower Manhattan. This week at N.Y.U., the Totenberg Instrumental Ensemble, headed by distinguished Violinist Roman Totenberg, will play Bach, Hindemith's Trauermusik,. Vivaldi's Winter Concerto (from the Four Seasons...