Word: bartok
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...plaintive phrasing complemented the ebb and flow of Bartok’s meticulously constructed tempo lines. The suite ended in a roar of climactic dissonance that even Sung, whose conservative conducting had constricted the other pieces, could not help but encourage. The BSO’s take on Bartok was proof of the artistic talent of each BSO member and their collective caliber as an ensemble. One just wonders why it took three pieces for this top-notch orchestra to warm up and start playing...
...mass mania, he had been a prototypical rock star. He always seemed uneasy at being pigeonholed, and made a point of emphasizing his classical bona fides. He performed and recorded Mozart's Quintet for Clarinet and Strings with the Budapest String Quartet in the '30s, and commissioned both Bela Bartok's knotty Contrasts for clarinet, violin and piano and Aaron Copland's perky Clarinet Concerto, among other works. Ever aloof, Goodman was hard to get to know. ''I remember we'd be talking, you know, real small talk, and he'd ask a question,'' James once recalled. ''While you were...
...opening night. In four segments, it follows a group of strangers on a Hollywood studio tour who find themselves caught inside the decaying set of an infamous old horror film. In order to get out alive, they must tell their strangest and most twisted stories. Writer and producer Dennis Bartok left his position as head programmer at the art house American Cinematheque in Los Angeles to work on the film. “It’s about the grotesque, the surreal and the erotic, the weird intersection between real life and the fantastic,” Bartok says...
...fact, HRO members say they prefer audience members who aren’t familiar with classical music. The clueless newbie—the one that claps between movements and doesn’t know the difference between Bartok and Vivaldi—is their favorite kind of audience...
...unnamed culprits are guilty of the equivalent of petty theft or shoplifting. But did we react to this story in the same way we would have if we found out that a handful of our peers had been caught walking into Tower Records and swiping a recording of a Bartok piano? Probably...