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...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...
...them overstate their roles. Michele Morgan is additionally the most beautiful actress alive. Next to her, I found Line Noro's performance in the difficult role of Amelie most telling. If you arrive on time, you will also see the second of the Brattle's weekly installments of Vivaldi. They are fine travelogues, and this week's season is Autumn...
...just been appointed co-conductor of the New York Philharmonic (with Dimitri Mitropoulos, who is very likely to quit soon). This week he wound up a six-week conducting stint with the Philharmonic that was notable for his unhackneyed programing, e.g., Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Vivaldi's rarely heard Concerto for Strings, Cembalo and Two Mandolins. As always, the critics found fault here and there?his extraordinary gyrations have earned him, in some quarters, a reputation as the Presley of the Podium?but no one could deny Conductor Bernstein's virtuosity. He is the first...
...first great exponent of a form that was to inspire Bach, Vivaldi, and Handel, Corelli was to set the style for years to come for the Concerto Grosso. Yet, like all great composers, Corelli avoided a dogmatic conception of musical form, and within the twelve concerti of Opus 6 there are twelve different variations on the general slow-fast-slow-fast and fast-slow-fast shapes. Quadri elicits a lovely shimmering string tone from the English Baroque Orchestra. (Westminster...
...likes the musical melting pot that characterizes the U.S. "In Europe one hears a great deal of national music. But here! Everyone knows Wagner and Brahms, Debussy and Ravel, Vivaldi and Resphigi, Falla and Tchaikovsky, and a conductor of a major orchestra has to be able to do the whole...