Word: concertino
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rudolf Firkusny at the piano last month, he conducted the orchestra in the world premiere of Bohuslav Martinu's Piano Concerto No. j. This week, in an all-Strauss program, he presented the U.S. première of one of the late composer's last works, his Concertino for Clarinet, Bassoon, Harp and Strings...
Stravinsky: Concertino and Three Pieces for String Quartet (Gordon String Quartet; Concert Hall Society, 4 sides). Stravinsky has written little for string quartets. This alburn includes all of it. Acrid and tart, but powerful, this will make Stravinsky fans wish he had written more. Performance: good...
...LaRue's Concertino...
Tonight's program is of unusual interest to Harvard students in view of the fact that it will be the first performance of Jan LaRue's Concertino. LaRue graduated magna cum laude in music last June and wrote his work as a graduate student at Princeton during the winter. While he was at Harvard, he played first clarinet in the orchestra and was elected president of the Pierian Sodality in his Senior year...
...quartet, and tympani which follows, will have the expert collaboration of the Stradivarius String Quartet, and Buxtehude's organ Chaconne in E minor will have the collaboration of Malcolm Holmes, who has transcribed the work for orchestra. Closing the program are two works by Harvard musicians, Jan LaRue's Concertino for Clarinet and Orchestra, with the composer as soloist, and Professor Ballantine's Variations on "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Jan LaRue, a music concentrator, graduated from Harvard last year and is now on a fellowship at Princeton, where the Concertino was written. Professor Ballantine's by now popular...