Word: gubaidulina
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concert at Sanders Theater, HRO will perform "Hour of the Soul," composed by Sofia Gubaidulina, who has won praise throughout the Soviet Union for her symphony and 50-odd ballets, scores and concertos...
...Gubaidulina's music still has not been performed extensively in the United States, and HRO members have said tonight's performance will be the first of "Hour of the Soul" in thiscountry...
Marrin, an HRO violinist, said Gubaidulina'smusic first gained a foothold in the United Statesafter she won acclaim for a performance in Bostonlast year...
Still, his rigidity seems to be fading. The Boston visitors include Progressives Alfred Schnittke, 53, and Sofia Gubaidulina, 56, now recognized as two of the Soviet Union's best composers. And, of course, there is Shchedrin, favored to succeed Khrennikov someday as a culture czar, who was represented by his new opera Dead Souls. A licensed radical who sacrificed his genuine talent for the status of a pampered house pet, Shchedrin once wrote sparklers like the Carmen Suite, a vibrant 1967 gloss on Bizet that will be danced later this month by his wife Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya. Now, perhaps metaphorically...
...Gubaidulina's Offertorium (1979-80) uses the theme of Bach's Musical Offering as the takeoff point for a complex violin concerto that lasts about 35 minutes. Atonal passages mingle freely with tonal ones as the theme is atomized and then reconstructed in reverse; the modern orchestrational device of flutter-tonguing for flutes and brass is complemented by traditionally virtuosic writing for the solo violinist. Gubaidulina, 53, also evokes her Russian predecessors Stravinsky and Prokofiev, most strikingly in a passage of glissandi string harmonics that recalls The Firebird. By Western standards, Offertorium may be tame, but given the governmental restrictions...