Word: quartet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Samuel Barber's Adagio for String Orchestra, the second movement of his String Quartet, Opus 11, which he later reorchestrated, was performed by the entire string section of the H.R.O. This lush work, somewhat trite in its impassioned repetitiousness and a bit too derivative in its handling of thematic material, requires much control of intonation and dynamics. The strings met its challenge well and, by the enormous crescendo near the end, their tone fairly shimmered with intensity...
...found close harmony impossible. Their price tag was $12,500 for a week, but they only lasted three days. They bought their way out of their contract. It all seemed to have something to do with a case of Scotch in their dressing room. Gary, 26, oldest of the quartet, says he lost his voice, but regained it long enough, during the boys' final set, to call a ringside lady "a drunken bum." Cutting the act very short, the lads fled back to their dressing room, where they bloodied Gary's nose and otherwise clouted him for crabbing...
...Composer Rodgers who meets the challenge best. With easy versatility, if no great distinction, he has written perky ditties and part songs for children, a lilting quartet for nuns, nice music for folk dancing, nice music for lovemaking, a swelling processional, a kind of hallelujah chorus. But, in general, the show's virtues are marred by its weaknesses. For one thing, Rodgers and Hammerstein do repeat themselves: governess, children and children's papa seem at moments the twins of The King and I. And The Sound of Music suffers badly by comparison, has less swing, less gaiety, less...
...AFTERNOON CONCERT. Mozart, Don Giovanni Overture; Smetana, Czech polkas and dances; Monteverdi, Ballo delle Ingrate; Schubert, Divertissement a la Hongroise; Stamitz, Sinfonia Concertante in F; Mendelssohn, Quartet 6, opus 44; Poulenc, Aubade; Poot, Octet...
...EVENING CONCERT. Haydn, Symphony 103 (drum roll); Rachmaninoff, 'Cello Sonata; Vivaldi, Concerto in D for viola d'amore; Beethoen, Sonata 25 for piano, opus 79; Mendelssohn, Quartet no. 4; Ravel, Pavanne pour une Infante Defunte...