Word: vosgerchian
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...Henry Kissinger! Louise Vosgerchian...
...Strauss waltzes) with the Harvard Club program of February 22, 1970 (Stravinsky, Hindemith, Etler, Petzel, Hovhaness, Dahl, and Mozart). The orchestra has performed many premieres including the world premiere of a Dellapiecola piece, the New England premiere of the Kirchner plane ??rto (conducted by Kirchner and ??med by Luise Vosgerchian), the New England premiere of Gunter Schuller's Five B?? and premieres of some of Dr. yaks works. HRO and the Glee Club would have performed the American premiere of Kurt Weill's Berlin Requiem at the coming mach concert, but discovered that a major symbol my orchestra...
Edgar Varese's Octandre (1924), one of the two modern works, did not compare favorably with Stravinsky's pivotal Movements for Piano and Orchestra (1959), with Harvard's Luise Vosgerchian as soloist. Octandre, for seven winds and contrabass, seemed individual but not highly original, consisting of some explorations of the percussive possibilities of wind articulation, propulsive rhythms, and generally uninteresting timbres. The piece seems much less provocative than the contemporary experiments of Hindemith, Bartok, Schoenberg, and Cowell. The Movements, however, a strictly twelve-tone piece, is characterized by pellucid, crystalline registration, pointillistic rhythmical control, and Stravinsky's unique unsentimental lvricism...
...Miss Vosgerchian doesn't exaggerate what can be taught in composition. The technique is explained, the enthusiasm encouraged, but the student must adapt them for his own purposes. "I'll never forget a student of mine," she says. "He had certain disagreements with what I said, but during each lesson he would say nothing. Yet when he came back, the next week, I could tell exactly what he had rejected...
...Such intelligence!" she says. 'He didn't bother to argue, but he kept what he thought was good." Miss Vosgerchian's vehemence is meant to offer a student ideas, not impose them. Beneath an exaggerated manner is a modesty of purpose...