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...dealer: "I haven't got the strength to finish my paintings." A few days later, he began the largest canvas 13 ft. by 20 ft.) that he had ever painted. It was an attempt to translate his emotions upon hearing a concert of Schoenberg's and Webern's music. He never finished...
...passionate convictions who "would rather starve" than give an imperfect performance, Celibidache has become an artist in self-imposed exile. While other guest conductors accept three rehearsals as sufficient preparation for a concert, Celibidache demands at least ten. He has been known, for example, to spend six rehearsals perfecting Webern's Variations for Orchestra, a work that lasts less than six minutes. The musicians who have worked under him agree that the result is worth all the painstaking labor. Says Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, recalling a performance at La Scala: "His accompaniment was unforgettable. I played a concerto...
...Bach Society concert Sunday evening in Paine Hall began with a croak from the horn. The first piece on the program was Webern's arrangement of the Ricercare of Bach's Musical Offering, and the theme of Frederick of Prussia's is first stated by the horn alone; admittedly it is a dirty trick to play on the unfortunate hornist, but it is a common enough practice, and this particular player was not up to it. He also succeeded in spoiling a large part of the orchestral accompaniment to the soprano in the Beethoven aria Primo amore, piacer del ciel...
VIENNA, 1908-1914 (Mercury) does not celebrate the vintage waltz-schmalz associated with the era, but the music of Schoenberg, Webern and Berg, who at the time formed a kind of progressive under ground in the city of Johann Strauss. Antal Dorati leads the London Symphony Orchestra in 13 orchestral pieces by the three modern masters...
High Philosophy. Now Monk has arrived at the summit of serious recognition he deserved all along, and his name is spoken with the quiet reverence that jazz itself has come to demand. His music is discussed in composition courses at Juilliard, sophisticates find in it affinities with Webern, and French Critic Andre Hodeir hails him as the first jazzman to have "a feeling for specifically modern esthetic values." The complexity jazz has lately acquired has always been present in Monk's music, and there is hardly a jazz musician playing who is not in some way indebted...