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...daring as his composer pals Edgar Varèse (whom he always called "Goofy") and "Charlie" Ives. The correctness of that judgment again became clear last week at Bennington, Vt, where Ruggles' friends, colleagues and neighbors staged a concert of his complete works. There were a song cycle, Vox damans in Deserto, a piano suite called Evocations and a short composition for muted brass called Angels. Most impressive was the granite-hewn intensity of his orchestral miniatures, Men and Mountains, Portals and Organum. His most ambitious work, the tone poem Sun Treader glinted with an ice-age grandeur, evoking...
PROKOFIEV: THE COMPLETE MUSIC FOR SOLO PIANO (Vox; 2 Vols., each 3 LPs). Composer Sergei Prokofiev was an accomplished concert pianist, and he left a large and lively legacy for his instrument. These recordings include such meditation miniatures as the 20 Visions Fugitives and nine sonatas, among them the famous Seventh, completed during the Battle of Stalingrad. One expects in Prokofiev dissonance, humor, percussiveness and strong drive; yet there is also much sheer lyrical beauty. Budapest-born Gyorgy Sandor plays the melodic passages poignantly and is a sure guide through the harshest chordal clashes-sometimes passionate, sometimes witty, always lucid...
...violin to the tuba is getting wired for sound. So pervasively is electric current spreading through the music industry that amplified and amplifying devices made by far the loudest noises in Chicago last week at the annual trade show of the National Association of Music Merchants. One manufacturer alone (Vox, a subsidiary of Thomas Organ Co.) displayed 64 electronic instruments and gadgets. Some of the most notable-or at least most audible-new products on view: >The Conn Corp.'s "multi-vider," a transistorized digital computer the size of a cigar box, which, when hooked up to an amplifier...
...kept chattering over VOX, a voice-activated system that cut off messages from controllers on earth whenever McDivitt and White were conversing. Again and again Grissom tried to break through: "Gemini 4, Houston. Gemini 4, Houston." The space twins kept talking to each other. Finally, McDivitt acknowledged the calls from earth: "Got any messages...
...STRING QUARTETS-VOLUME II (3 LPs; Vox). Convinced that Dvorak is the missing link between Brahms and Bartok in the history of chamber music, the Kohon Quartet of New York University is undertaking the first recording of all 15 of his string quartets. More interesting than Volume I. this package includes the three last quartets. Though the Kohon does not have the singing tone of the Janacek ensemble, the players know Dvořák in all his moods and are eloquent spokesmen...